1996 Cotton Bowl Classic

1996 Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic

(9–3)

(10–2)

Head coach:
Mike Bellotti

Head coach:
Rick Neuheisel

AP	Coaches	BA
12	12	12

AP	Coaches	BA
7	7	7

	1	2	3	4	Total
Oregon	6	0	0	0	6
Colorado	0	13	19	6	38

Date

January 1, 1996

Season

Stadium

Location

MVP

RB Herchell Troutman (Colorado)
DB Marcus Washington (Colorado)

Attendance

58,214

United States TV coverage

CBS

The 1996 Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1996, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. This was the 60th held game. The Cotton Bowl Classic was part of the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The bowl game featured the Colorado Buffaloes from the Big Eight and the Oregon Ducks from the Pacific-10 Conference. The game was televised on CBS.^[1]

Game summary

Colorado had only a 13-6 halftime lead, but the Buffs scored 25 straight points in the second half while also shutting out Oregon.

1995–96 NCAA football bowl game season

Las Vegas (Dec. 15) Aloha (Dec. 25) Copper (Dec. 27) Alamo (Dec. 28) Independence (Dec. 29) Sun (Dec. 29) Holiday (Dec. 29) Liberty (Dec. 30) Carquest (Dec. 30) Peach (Dec. 30) Gator (Jan. 1) Outback (Jan. 1) Cotton (Jan. 1) Florida Citrus (Jan. 1) Rose (Jan. 1)

Bowl Alliance games: Sugar (Dec. 31) Orange (Jan. 1) Fiesta (Jan. 2)

Cotton Bowl Classic

History & conference tie-ins	History Cotton Bowl AT&T Stadium College Football Playoff Broadcasters Playoff At-Large Group of Five

Games	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1966 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2015 2017

Notes	There was a Cotton Bowl Classic in January and December in 1966 and 2015. There was no Cotton Bowl Classic in 1967. The game was a College Football Playoff semifinal in its December 2015 edition.

Pound sign (#) denotes national championship game.

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