• Hero: All-American Ernie Davis caught an 87-yard touchdown pass to open the scoring and added a one-yard run to give Syracuse a 15-0 halftime lead. Davis also intercepted a pass to set up another score, after which he caught a two-point conversion pass.
• Notable: Syracuse, 10-0 and ranked No. 1 after completing the first unbeaten regular season in school history, made its second trip to Dallas in three years to play Texas for the first time. This was considered its first major bowl victory.
• From The Dallas Morning News: "Syracuse proved unquestionably Friday its right to be ranked as the No. 1 team in the nation. It also proved that perhaps it belongs among some of the best college elevens in history. But the proof was delivered the hard way, against a Texas team which was outmanned but never outfought."
• Complete game story: Syracuse Defeats Texas, 23-14
• Hero: Claude "Tee" Moorman, known as the "Lonesome End," caught a nine-yard touchdown pass with just 2:43 left to rally Duke.
• Notable: Arkansas' Lance Alworth returned a punt 49 yards to break a scoreless tie in the third quarter, but after a blocked extra point, the score did not hold up.
• From The Dallas Morning News: "Duke University, overcoming some dazzling heroics by Arkansas halfback Lance Alworth, roared from behind in the fourth quarter and scored an upset, 7-6 victory in the Cotton Bowl game Monday afternoon."
• Complete game story: Duke Roars Back to Upset Hogs, 7-6
• Hero: Texas' Bob Moses stuffed Ole Miss' Glynn Griffing on a fourth-down play late in the game to preserve the Southwest Conference's first win vs. Ole Miss in a bowl.
• Notable: Both teams entered the game 9-1, and each was ranked No. 1 by the Associated Press at one point during the season. Texas led 12-0 at halftime.
From The Dallas Morning News "This was one of the great ones, a classic of Cotton Bowl classics, a New Year's football afternoon to remember. was a clash of mighty offenses, but it was a day for a swarming Orange-clad horde of head-hunting, pass-stealing defenders."
• Complete game story: Cotten Paces 'Horns Past Rebels, 12-7
• Hero: Alternating LSU quarterbacks Lynn Amadee and Jimmy Field provided all the points. Amadee booted two field goals and an extra point and Field scored on a 22-yard run. Amadee's first field goal was the first in the Cotton Bowl since 1942.
• Notable: LSU's famed "Chinese Bandits" defense held Texas to nine first downs and handed the Longhorns (9-1-1) their only loss of the season.
From The Dallas Morning News: "Billy Bidwill, co-owner of the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals, proved that the pen is mightier than the horde immediately after LSU proved it was mightier than Texas in the 27th Cotton Bowl Classic. While thousands of adoring Tiger fans swarmed out of the stands to tell Jerry Stovall how wonderful they thought he was one last time, the All-America halfback only had eyes for Bidwill. Or, more accurately, for Bidwill's money."
• Complete game story: 'Golden' Pro Pen Seals LSU Star
• Hero: Converted defensive back Duke Carlisle threw for 213 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 54 yards and another score to steal the spotlight from Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach.
• Notable: No. 1 Texas won the battle of the top two ranked teams in the nation. This marked the first time the nation's top two teams had played in the Cotton Bowl. The Midshipmen came into the game averaging 31 points.
• From The Dallas Morning News: "It already had been crowned king of the 1963 college football season, but a magnificent University of Texas team chose New Year's Day, 1964, to brandish its crown before the football world and a good but bewildered Navy opponent. The score was Texas 28, Navy 6 in this 28th Cotton Bowl Classic that had been billed as possibly the bowl 'dream' match of all time."
• Complete game story: Longhorns Explode Navy Myth, 28-6
• Hero: Bill Burnett scored the Hogs' only touchdown on a three-yard run with 4:41 left.
• Notable: Freddy Marshall led the Hogs on an 80-yard scoring drive in the fourth quarter to finish off Arkansas' unbeaten season (11-0) and its only national title. The win was Arkansas' first in the Cotton Bowl.
• From The Dallas Morning News: "Unmistakably, Cinderella is fraud. Arkansas' Razorbacks proved it with an incredible flare on an unsettled and unsettling New Year's Day Friday to claim a stirring 10-7 Cotton Bowl victory over Nebraska."
• Complete game story: Hogs Overtake Nebraska, 10-7
• Hero: Joe Labruzzo ran for two second-quarter touchdowns to provide LSU, which trailed 7-0, all it needed.
• Notable: The Hogs saw their 22-game winning streak end as time expired with Arkansas in possession at LSU's 24. Arkansas was 10-0 entering the game. Attendance was 76,200, a Cotton Bowl record at the time.
• From The Dallas Morning News: "LSU raced to two second quarter touchdowns along an astonishing expressway that weaved treacherously through the right side of Arkansas' defensive line Saturday to crumble Razorback chances for a second consecutive national championship."
• Complete game story: Tigers Smash Porker String, 14-7
• Hero: Georgia's Kent Lawrence ran 74 yards for a touchdown on the second play and finished with 149 yards on 16 carries, the second-best rushing total in Cotton Bowl history at the time.
• Notable: SMU All-American Jerry Levias played the game in jersey No. 26 after his customary No. 23 was stolen. The Mustangs were making their first appearance in the Cotton Bowl game in 18 years.
• From The Dallas Morning News: "Vandals frisked the shirt right off Jerry Levias' back before he could even get to the Cotton Bowl Saturday. But that wasn't nearly so aggravating to SMU's Mustangs as what happened to them once they stepped into the jam-packed stadium a little later in the day."
• Complete game story: Bulldog Sprinter Outruns Ponies, 24-9
• Hero: Edd Hargett threw for two touchdowns and 143 yards for Texas A&M.
• Notable: The victory gave Gene Stallings his first bowl victory in just his third season as head football coach at Texas A&M and the Aggies' first Cotton Bowl win in 27 years.
• From The Dallas Morning News: "You should have expected it of Bear Bryant. More than 70,000 chilled fans had fidgeted through the final four minutes of Monday's 32nd Cotton Bowl Cotton Bowl Classic expecting Bryant to command a miracle at any time to pull out victory for Alabama over Texas A&M."
• Complete game story: Bear Is Showman, Even in Defeat
• Hero: Texas' Cotton Speyrer caught touchdown passes of 78 and 79 yards from James Street. Speyrer had five catches for 161 yards.
• Notable: Led by Street, Texas built a 28-0 lead with its powerful Wishbone offense, which made its Cotton Bowl debut. The Longhorns piled up 513 yards. Tennessee's defense had allowed 10 opponents an average of only 93.3 yards rushing coming into the game.
• From The Dallas Morning News: "A numbed live audience and all of college football may have been awed by Texas' mastery over Tennessee in a frigid 33rd Cotton Bowl Classic Wednesday. But perhaps only the team of plumbers which never managed to thaw frozen rest room pipes in the press box could fully appreciate the Volunteer frustration."
• Complete game story: Longhorns Stroll 1-Way Street, 36-13
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