List of Nebraska Cornhuskers bowl games

This list of Nebraska Cornhuskers bowl games is a listing of the bowl games the Nebraska Cornhuskers football program has participated in since the inception of college football's bowl system in 1902. Nebraska competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference. Nebraska has played in fifty-three bowl games, including a then-record thirty-five straight from 1969 to 2003, with a record of 26–27.

Nebraska declined an invitation to play in the second-ever Rose Bowl Game following the 1915 season and did not make its bowl debut until 1941. Twenty-one years later, Bob Devaney's first season ended with the first bowl victory in program history, a 36–34 victory over Miami (FL) in the 1962 Gotham Bowl. During Devaney's tenure, Nebraska began a stretch of thirty-five consecutive seasons with a bowl appearance, a streak that ended in 2004. The program regularly featured in the Orange Bowl due to the Big Eight's bowl affiliations, playing in the game seventeen times between 1954 and 1997, first against SEC opposition and later against the ACC.

List of bowl games

National championship game

Nebraska win

Nebraska loss

No.	Date	Bowl	Winning team		Losing team		City	Stadium	Attendance
1	Jan. 1, 1941	Rose	No. 2 Stanford	21	No. 7 Nebraska	13	Pasadena, CA	Rose Bowl	92,000
2	Jan. 1, 1955	Orange	No. 14 Duke	34	Nebraska	7	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	68,750
3	Dec. 15, 1962	Gotham	Nebraska	36	Miami	34	New York City, NY	Yankee Stadium	6,166
4	Jan. 1, 1964	Orange	No. 6 Nebraska	13	No. 5 Auburn	7	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	72,647
5	Jan. 1, 1965	Cotton	No. 2 Arkansas	10	No. 6 Nebraska	7	Dallas, TX	Cotton Bowl	75,504
6	Jan. 1, 1966	Orange	No. 4 Alabama	39	No. 3 Nebraska	28	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	72,214
7	Jan. 2, 1967	Sugar	No. 3 Alabama	34	No. 6 Nebraska	7	New Orleans, LA	Tulane Stadium	82,000
8	Dec. 20, 1969	Sun	No. 14 Nebraska	45	Georgia	6	El Paso, TX	Sun Bowl	31,176
9	Jan. 1, 1971	Orange	No. 3 Nebraska	17	No. 5 LSU	12	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	80,699
10	Jan. 1, 1972		No. 1 Nebraska	38	No. 2 Alabama	6			78,151
11	Jan. 1, 1973		No. 9 Nebraska	40	No. 12 Notre Dame	6			80,010
12	Jan. 1, 1974	Cotton	No. 12 Nebraska	19	No. 8 Texas	3	Dallas, TX	Cotton Bowl	68,500
13	Dec. 31, 1974	Sugar	No. 8 Nebraska	13	No. 18 Florida	10	New Orleans, LA	Tulane Stadium	67,890
14	Dec. 26, 1975	Fiesta	No. 7 Arizona State	17	No. 6 Nebraska	14	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	51,396
15	Dec. 31, 1976	Bluebonnet	No. 13 Nebraska	27	No. 9 Texas Tech	24	Houston, TX	Astrodome	48,618
16	Dec. 19, 1977	Liberty	No. 12 Nebraska	21	No. 14 North Carolina	17	Memphis, TN	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium	49,456
17	Jan. 1, 1979	Orange	No. 4 Oklahoma	31	No. 6 Nebraska	24	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	66,365
18	Jan. 1, 1980	Cotton	No. 8 Houston	17	No. 7 Nebraska	14	Dallas, TX	Cotton Bowl	72,032
19	Dec. 27, 1980	Sun	No. 8 Nebraska	31	No. 17 Mississippi State	17	El Paso, TX	Sun Bowl	34,723
20	Jan. 1, 1982	Orange	No. 1 Clemson	22	No. 4 Nebraska	15	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	72,748
21	Jan. 1, 1983		No. 3 Nebraska	21	No. 13 LSU	20			54,407
22	Jan. 2, 1984		No. 5 Miami (FL)	31	No. 1 Nebraska	30			72,549
23	Jan. 1, 1985	Sugar	No. 5 Nebraska	28	No. 11 LSU	10	New Orleans, LA	Louisiana Superdome	75,608
24	Jan. 1, 1986	Fiesta	No. 5 Michigan	27	No. 7 Nebraska	23	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	72,454
25	Jan. 1, 1987	Sugar	No. 6 Nebraska	30	No. 5 LSU	15	New Orleans, LA	Louisiana Superdome	76,234
26	Jan. 1, 1988	Fiesta	No. 3 Florida State	31	No. 5 Nebraska	28	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	72,112
27	Jan. 2, 1989	Orange	No. 2 Miami (FL)	23	No. 6 Nebraska	3	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	79,480
28	Jan. 1, 1990	Fiesta	No. 5 Florida State	41	No. 6 Nebraska	17	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	73,953
29	Jan. 1, 1991	Citrus	No. 2 Georgia Tech	45	No. 19 Nebraska	21	Orlando, FL	Florida Citrus Bowl	73,328
30	Jan. 1, 1992	Orange	No. 1 Miami (FL)	22	No. 11 Nebraska	0	Miami, FL	Miami Orange Bowl	77,747
31	Jan. 1, 1993		No. 3 Florida State	27	No. 11 Nebraska	14			57,324
32	Jan. 1, 1994		No. 1 Florida State	18	No. 2 Nebraska	16			81,536
33	Jan. 1, 1995		No. 1 Nebraska	24	No. 3 Miami	17			81,753
34	Jan. 2, 1996	Fiesta	No. 1 Nebraska	62	No. 2 Florida	24	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	79,864
35	Dec. 31, 1996	Orange	No. 6 Nebraska	41	No. 10 Virginia Tech	21	Miami Gardens, FL	Joe Robbie Stadium	51,212
36	Jan. 2, 1998		No. 2 Nebraska	42	No. 3 Tennessee	17			74,002
37	Dec. 30, 1998	Holiday	No. 5 Arizona	23	No. 14 Nebraska	20	San Diego, CA	San Diego Stadium	65,354
38	Jan. 2, 2000	Fiesta	No. 3 Nebraska	31	No. 6 Tennessee	21	Tempe, AZ	Sun Devil Stadium	71,526
39	Dec. 30, 2000	Alamo	No. 9 Nebraska	66	No. 18 Northwestern	17	San Antonio, TX	Alamodome	60,028
40	Jan. 3, 2002	Rose	No. 1 Miami (FL)	37	No. 4 Nebraska	14	Pasadena, CA	Rose Bowl	93,781
41	Dec. 27, 2002	Independence	Mississippi	27	Nebraska	23	Shreveport, LA	Independence Stadium	46,096
42	Dec. 29, 2003	Alamo	No. 22 Nebraska	17	Michigan State	3	San Antonio, TX	Alamodome	56,229
43	Dec. 28, 2005		Nebraska	32	No. 20 Michigan	28			63,016
44	Jan. 1, 2007	Cotton	No. 10 Auburn	17	No. 22 Nebraska	14	Dallas, TX	Cotton Bowl	66,777
45	Jan. 1, 2009	Gator	Nebraska	26	Clemson	21	Jacksonville, FL	Jacksonville Municipal Stadium	67,282
46	Dec. 30, 2009	Holiday	No. 20 Nebraska	33	No. 22 Arizona	0	San Diego, CA	San Diego Stadium	64,607
47	Dec. 30, 2010		Washington	19	No. 17 Nebraska	7			57,921
48	Jan. 2, 2012	Citrus	No. 10 South Carolina	30	No. 21 Nebraska	13	Orlando, FL	Florida Citrus Bowl	61,351
49	Jan. 1, 2013		No. 6 Georgia	45	No. 23 Nebraska	31			59,712
50	Jan. 1, 2014	Gator	Nebraska	24	No. 23 Georgia	19	Jacksonville, FL	Jacksonville Municipal Stadium	60,712
51	Dec. 27, 2014	Holiday	No. 24 USC	45	No. 25 Nebraska	42	San Diego, CA	San Diego Stadium	55,789
52	Dec. 26, 2015	San Francisco	Nebraska	37	UCLA	29	Santa Clara, CA	Levi's Stadium	33,527
53	Dec. 30, 2016	Music City	Tennessee	38	No. 24 Nebraska	24	Nashville, TN	The Coliseum	68,496

Record breakdown

Opponent No. Opponent Record 6 Miami (FL) 2–4 4 LSU 4–0 Florida State 0–4 3 Georgia 2–1 Tennessee Alabama 1–2 2 Florida 2–0 Arizona 1–1 Auburn Clemson Michigan 1 Michigan State 1–0 Mississippi State North Carolina Northwestern Texas Texas Tech UCLA Virginia Tech Arizona State 0–1 Arkansas Georgia Tech Houston Oklahoma Ole Miss South Carolina USC Washington

Bowl App. Bowl Record 17 Orange 8–9 6 Fiesta 2–4 4 Sugar 3–1 Cotton 1–3 Holiday 3 Alamo 3–0 Citrus 0–3 2 Gator 2–0 Sun Rose 0–2 1 Bluebonnet 1–0 Gotham Liberty San Francisco Independence 0–1 Music City

Coach No. Coach Tenure Record 25 Tom Osborne 1973–1997 12–13 (.480) 9 Bob Devaney 1962–1972 6–3 (.667) 7 Bo Pelini 2008–2014 4–3 (.571) 5 Frank Solich 1998–2003 2–3 (.400) 2 Bill Callahan 2004–2007 1–1 (.500) Mike Riley 2015–2017 1 Biff Jones 1937–1941 0–1 (.000) Bill Glassford 1949–1955 Barney Cotton 2014