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In the 1951 Cotton Bowl Classic, the Volunteers upset the Longhorns 20–14. In the 1953 Cotton Bowl Classic, Texas beat Tennessee 16–0. This was the third Cotton Bowl between the two teams. Texas was Southwest Conference co-champions due to losing to Texas Tech early in the season, thus they shared it with Arkansas.
The 1969 season marked the centennial of college football, and this game decided the Southwest Conference championship and its berth in the Cotton Bowl. ABC television executive Beano Cook had arranged for Texas and Arkansas to play the final game of the regular season, moving their usual October date to the first weekend in December.
The 1969 team is the last all-white team to be named consensus national champions with the onset of ... 1970 Cotton Bowl Classic: Notre Dame Fighting Irish (8–1–1 ...
The 2004 Cotton Bowl Classic saw the return of the Mississippi Rebels, whose last appearance in the Cotton Bowl Classic was a 12–7 loss to Texas in 1962. The 2004 Cotton Bowl Classic would also be New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning's last college football game. Manning led his team to beat Oklahoma State 31–28.
Penn State declined an invitation to play the Texas/Arkansas winner in the Cotton Bowl Classic, [citation needed] instead playing sixth-ranked Missouri in the Orange Bowl. Penn State beat Missouri 10–3, while Texas beat Notre Dame 21–17 and was recognized as the consensus national champion.
The Cotton Bowl's capacity is 92,100, although the stadium has gone over that number three times, reaching 96,009 fans in three consecutive seasons from 2009-11.
The Buckeyes didn’t make this 28-14 Cotton Bowl victory easy on themselves, but Jack Sawyer removed them from harm’s way with a strip-sack of Quinn Ewers late in the fourth quarter.
On December 12, 1969, his leg was amputated at the hip. [ 2 ] Twenty days later, Steinmark stood on the sideline with his team as Texas defeated Notre Dame in the 1970 Cotton Bowl Classic on New Year's Day.