Following the events that took place on championship Saturday, the Texas Longhorns now know their bowl appearance and the opponent.
The Big 12 Conference will have two teams represented in the New Years Six bowl games with Oklahoma Sooners and Iowa State Cyclones both getting selected. The Longhorns being the next team in the standings will once again head to the Valero Alamo Bowl.
The opponent will be a familiar one with the Pac 12’s Colorado Buffaloes. They left the Big 12 for the Pac 12 following the 2011 season. These two teams have met a total of 18 times over the years. This is the first bowl matchup between the two since the 1975 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl game. The Longhorns won that matchup 38-21.
This is the fourth time the Longhorns will have played in the Alamo Bowl since 2012 and fifth overall. They are 3-1 in their previous match ups. The lone loss came against Oregon in the 2013 Alamo Bowl game. Under head coach Tom Herman, Texas has only played one bowl game outside the state of Texas when they played the Georgia Bulldogs in the AllState Sugar Bowl in 2018.
Date: Dec. 29, 2020
Time: 8 PM CST
TV: ESPN
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