Texas becomes first ever college football program to win every New Year’s Six bowl game

No team has ever done it … until New Year’s Day 2025. The Texas Longhorns are the first college football program to win all New Year’s Six bowl games. The Longhorns accomplished the feat by outlasting Arizona State 38-31 in double overtime.

For years, conference affiliations determined bowl game participants. The Southwest Conference, and later the Big 12, were tied to the Cotton Bowl. The Pac-10 and Big Ten to the Rose Bowl. The SEC to the Sugar, the ACC to the Orange and so on.

In fact, Texas has never had a chance at playing in the Peach Bowl until the 12-team playoff format came into existence this year. But as a blue blood program with plenty of history, UT had played in and won the other five.

The BCS first opened up some of the rigid bowl ties. That’s how the Longhorns played in the Rose Bowl against Michigan and USC during the Vince Young years.

Texas has a winning record in all but one of the five New Year’s Six bowl games they’ve played in. The Horns (2-3) only have a losing record in the Sugar Bowl.

The feat is mostly thanks to coincidence and circumstance, but that doesn’t make it less special and another feather in the programs collective hat.

Texas Longhorns New Year’s Six Bowl Game Records

• Cotton Bowl (11-10-1)

  1943 vs. Georgia Tech (W 14–7)

  1944 vs. Randolph Field (T 7–7)

  1946 vs. Missouri (W 40–27)

  1951 vs. Tennessee (L 20–14)

  1953 vs. Tennessee (W 16-0)

  1960 vs. Syracuse (L 23–14)

  1962 vs. Ole Miss (W 12–7)

  1963 vs. LSU (L 13-0)

  1964 vs. Navy (W 28–6)

  1969 vs. Ole Miss (W 36–13)

  1970 vs. Notre Dame (W 21–17)

  1971 vs. Notre Dame (L 24–11)

  1972 vs. Penn State (L 30–6)

  1973 vs. Alabama (W 17–13)

  1974 vs. Nebraska (L 19–3)

  1978 vs. Notre Dame (L 38–10)

  1982 vs. Alabama (W 14–12)

  1984 vs. Georgia (L 10–9)

  1991 vs. Miami (L 46–3)

  1999 vs. Mississippi State (W 38–11)

  2000 vs. Arkansas (L 27–6)

  2003 vs. LSU (W 35–20)

• Sugar Bowl (2-3)

  1948 vs. Alabama (W 27–7)

  1958 vs. Ole Miss (L 39–7)

  1995 vs. Virginia Tech (L 28–10)

  2018 vs. Georgia (W 28–21)

  2024 vs. Washington (L 37–31)

• Orange Bowl (2-0)

  1949 vs. Georgia (W 41–28)

  1965 vs. Alabama (W 21–17)

• Rose Bowl (2-0)

  2005 vs. Michigan (W 38–37)

  2006 vs. USC (W 41–38)

• Fiesta Bowl (1-1)

  1997 vs. Penn State (L 38–15)

  2009 vs. Ohio State (W 24–21)

• Peach Bowl (1-0)

  2025 vs. Arizona State (W 38-31 2OT)

This article originally appeared on Longhorns Wire: Texas becomes first ever college football program to win every New Year’s Six bowl game