1994 Cotton Bowl Classic

1994 Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic
58th Cotton Bowl Classic
Notre Dame Fighting Irish Texas A&M Aggies
(10–1) (10–1)
Independent SWC
24 21
Head coach: 
Lou Holtz		 Head coach: 
R. C. Slocum
APCoachesBC
444
APCoachesBC
767
1234 Total
Notre Dame 70143 24
Texas A&M 7770 21
DateJanuary 1, 1994
Season1993
StadiumCotton Bowl
LocationDallas, Texas
MVPRB Lee Becton (Notre Dame)
L Antonio Shorter (Texas A&M)
RefereeBill Richardson (Pac-10)
Attendance69,855
United States TV coverage
NetworkNBC
AnnouncersCharlie Jones and Todd Christensen
Cotton Bowl Classic
 < 1993  1995 > 

The 1994 Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic was the fifty-eighth edition of the college football bowl game, played January 1, 1994, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. The game featured the Notre Dame Fighting Irish versus the Southwest Conference champion Texas A&M Aggies. The game was a rematch of the 1993 Cotton Bowl, which Notre Dame also won.[1] Furthermore, Notre Dame had the chance with its win to split the national championship with Florida State, whom they had beaten earlier in the season.[2]

To date, this remains Notre Dame's last win in a major bowl game, now commonly known as New Year's Six bowl games. Since their victory in the 1994 Cotton Bowl, the Fighting Irish have currently lost ten consecutive major bowl games.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 11, 2011. Retrieved January 5, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Scout.com: Bowl Game Memories". Archived from the original on March 9, 2014. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
  3. ^ Coleman, Madeline (January 1, 2022). "Notre Dame Still Hasn't Won a Major Bowl Game Since Before the BCS Era". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved September 25, 2024.


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