Virginia's first bowl loss in three post-season appearances gave it a 10-3 record, the first 10-victory season in the school's 101-year football history.
Texas Tech suffered four more bowl losses before getting their first postseason win in the 1952 Sun Bowl.
The eventual 42-3 loss was Virginia Tech's largest bowl loss in school history.
The win broke a string of 5 consecutive bowl losses for the Aggies.
Clemson's best season in 20 years came to a crashing halt with arguably the worst bowl loss in school history.
It was after the 1993 season, with six bowl losses in a row, that Osborne stopped to consider the carnage.
The Spartans were coming off of a 6 win season and a bowl loss.
The season ended with a lopsided 34-7 bowl loss to Louisville, and Alabama finished 7-5.
Notre Dame went 8-4 in the regular season with a bowl loss.
He saw action in a few games his junior season (including the bowl loss against Syracuse) and was the starting quarterback throughout his senior season.