Bowl games[]
Notre Dame has made 32 Bowl appearances, winning 15 and losing 17.[1] After an initial appearance in a postseason contest in the 1925 Rose Bowl, the Fighting Irish refused to participate in bowl games for more than four decades;[2] writers like Dan Jenkins have speculated that Notre Dame might have gone to as many as twenty bowl games during the self-imposed forty-five year hiatus.[2] It has played in the BCS National Championship Game (1 loss), Rose Bowl (1 win), the Cotton Bowl Classic (5 wins, 2 losses), the Orange Bowl (2 wins, 3 losses), the Sugar Bowl (2 wins, 2 losses), the Gator Bowl (1 win, 2 losses), the Liberty Bowl (1 win), the Aloha Bowl (1 loss), the Fiesta Bowl (1 win, 3 losses), the Independence Bowl (1 loss), the Insight Bowl (1 loss), Hawaiʻi Bowl (1 win) and the Sun Bowl (1 win). From 1994 to the 2006 football seasons, Notre Dame lost 9 consecutive bowl games, the most in NCAA history. That streak ended with a 49–21 win over Hawaiʻi in the 2008 Hawaiʻi Bowl. In the process, Notre Dame scored its highest point total in post-season play. The record of 9 consecutive bowl losses was later tied by Northwestern in 2011.
| Date | Bowl | W/L | Opponent | PF | PA |
| January 1, 1925 | Rose Bowl | W | Stanford | 27 | 10 |
| January 1, 1970 | Cotton Bowl Classic | L | #1 Texas | 17 | 21 |
| January 1, 1971 | Cotton Bowl Classic | W | #1 Texas | 24 | 11 |
| January 1, 1973 | Orange Bowl | L | #9 Nebraska | 6 | 40 |
| December 31, 1973 | Sugar Bowl | W | #1 Alabama | 24 | 23 |
| January 1, 1975 | Orange Bowl | W | #2 Alabama | 13 | 11 |
| December 27, 1976 | Gator Bowl | W | #20 Penn State | 20 | 9 |
| January 2, 1978 | Cotton Bowl Classic | W | #1 Texas | 38 | 10 |
| January 1, 1979 | Cotton Bowl Classic | W | Houston | 35 | 34 |
| January 1, 1981 | Sugar Bowl | L | #1 Georgia | 10 | 17 |
| December 29, 1983 | Liberty Bowl | W | Boston College | 19 | 18 |
| December 29, 1984 | Aloha Bowl | L | #10 SMU | 20 | 27 |
| January 1, 1988 | Cotton Bowl Classic | L | Texas A&M | 10 | 35 |
| January 2, 1989 | Fiesta Bowl | W | #3 West Virginia | 34 | 21 |
| January 1, 1990 | Orange Bowl | W | Colorado | 21 | 6 |
| January 1, 1991 | Orange Bowl | L | #1 Colorado | 9 | 10 |
| January 1, 1992 | Sugar Bowl | W | #3 Florida | 39 | 28 |
| January 1, 1993 | Cotton Bowl Classic | W | #3 Texas A&M | 28 | 3 |
| January 1, 1994 | Cotton Bowl Classic | W | #6 Texas A&M | 24 | 21 |
| January 2, 1995 | Fiesta Bowl | L | #5 Colorado | 24 | 41 |
| January 1, 1996 | Orange Bowl | L | #8 Florida State | 26 | 31 |
| December 28, 1997 | Independence Bowl | L | #15 LSU | 9 | 27 |
| January 1, 1999 | Gator Bowl | L | #12 Georgia Tech | 28 | 35 |
| January 1, 2001 | Fiesta Bowl | L | #5 Oregon State | 9 | 41 |
| January 1, 2003 | Gator Bowl | L | #17 North Carolina State | 6 | 28 |
| December 28, 2004 | Insight Bowl | L | Oregon State | 21 | 38 |
| January 2, 2006 | Fiesta Bowl | L | #4 Ohio State | 20 | 34 |
| January 3, 2007 | Sugar Bowl | L | #4 LSU | 14 | 41 |
| December 24, 2008 | Hawaiʻi Bowl | W | Hawaiʻi | 49 | 21 |
| December 31, 2010 | Sun Bowl | W | Miami (FL) | 33 | 17 |
| December 29, 2011 | Champs Sports Bowl | L | #25 Florida State | 14 | 18 |
| January 7, 2013 | BCS National Championship | L | #2 Alabama | 14 | 42 |
| Total | 32 bowl games | 15–17 | 671 | 727 |
References[]
- ↑ "Notre Dame Historical Data". College Football Data Warehouse. http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/independents/notre_dame/index.php. Retrieved 2006-06-28.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jenkins, Dan (1969). "Knute Rockne Would Have Agreed, Ara". Sports Illustrated (Time-Life, Inc.) 31 (26): 26. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1083174/index.htm. Retrieved June 14, 2012.