1995–96 NCAA football bowl games
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Season | 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of bowls | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowl games | December 14, 1995 – January 2, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National Championship | Fiesta Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location of Championship | Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Champions | Nebraska | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1995–96 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. In the first year of the Bowl Alliance era, the Alliance achieved its goal of matching the two top-ranked teams in the country in the Fiesta Bowl, designated as the Bowl Alliance national championship game for the 1995 season. Top-ranked Nebraska soundly defeated second-ranked Florida 62–24 to repeat as national champions.
A total of 18 bowl games were played from December 14 through January 2 by 36 bowl-eligible teams.[1] This was one fewer than the 19 bowls played in 1993–94 and 1994–95, as the Freedom Bowl dissolved after 1994.
Adopted for this postseason, overtime was used for the first time in Division I-A in the Las Vegas Bowl on December 14.[2]
Non-Bowl Alliance bowls
Bowl Alliance bowls
Date | Time | Game | Site | Result | Ref. |
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Dec 31 | 7:30 PM | Sugar Bowl | Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA | No. 13 Virginia Tech 28, No. 9 Texas 10 | |
Jan 1 | 8:00 PM | Orange Bowl | Miami Orange Bowl Miami, FL | No. 8 Florida State 31, No. 6 Notre Dame 26 | |
Jan 2 | 8:30 PM | Fiesta Bowl (championship game) | Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ | No. 1 Nebraska 62, No. 2 Florida 24 | |
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game. All times are in Eastern Time.[4] |
Notes
- ^ Tennessee and Ohio State were tied at fourth in the pre-bowl AP Poll.[3]
References
- ^ "1995 College Football Bowl Games". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
- ^ a b "Tait's 4 TDs lift Toledo". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. December 15, 1995. p. 5C.
- ^ "December 5, 1995 AP Football Poll". College Poll Archive. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
- ^ a b "Bowl Schedule". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. December 4, 1995. p. 43 – via Newspapers.com.
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- Bowl Alliance games: Sugar (Dec. 31)
- Orange (Jan. 1)
- Fiesta (Jan. 2)