1999 Cotton Bowl Classic

December 2025 March 2014 1999 Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic 63rd Cotton Bowl Classic Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic.png Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic logo 1998 Texas Longhorns University of Texas Mississippi State Bulldogs Mississippi State University 8–3 Big 12 8–4 SEC Mack Brown Jackie Sherrill 20 19 25 23 7 7 24 0 0 3 0 8 January 1 Cotton Bowl Dallas, Texas RB Ricky Williams (Texas) LB Aaron Babino (Texas) Dan Blum (Conference USA) 72,611 Fox List of announcers of major college bowl games Joe Buck and Bill Maas thumb|The Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, hosted the Cotton Bowl Classic. The 1999 Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season college football game played on January 1, 1999. It pitted the Texas Longhorns against the Southeastern Conference (SEC) West champions Mississippi State Bulldogs. This was the first Cotton Bowl Classic broadcast by Fox. This game was the first time Texas had reached the post-season since the 1996 season. It was the first bowl game for Texas under new head coach Mack Brown. Texas had compiled an 8–3 season record. Meanwhile, Mississippi State had compiled an 8–3 regular season record under head coach Jackie Sherrill. They won the SEC West division title before falling to Tennessee, 24–14, in the SEC Championship game. The loss knocked them to 8–4 coming into the bowl game. Behind the rushing of Ricky Williams, who was declared the Heisman Trophy and Doak Walker award winner a few days before, Texas raced to a 14–3 lead by halftime. They scored 24 unanswered points in the third quarter en route to a 38–11 victory. It was Texas's first bowl game win since the 1994 Sun Bowl, and their first 9-win season as a Big 12 team (Texas had left the Southwest Conference and joined the Big 12 at the start of the 1996 season). It was also Texas's first New Year's Day bowl win since the 1982 Cotton Bowl Classic 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season 1981 season. It was not only the first Cotton Bowl Classic on Fox,http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/binary/2011/01/05/2011_Cotton_Bowl1294267938552.pdf Fox Sports Press Release for 2011 Cotton Bowl Classic – "FOX Sports has been the television home of the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic since 1999." November 9, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110815150441/http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/binary/2011/01/05/2011_Cotton_Bowl1294267938552.pdf August 15, 2011 dead mdy-all but it was also the first college football game ever broadcast on Fox. References External links 1999 Cotton Bowl Recap: Texas 38, Mississippi State 11 Cotton Bowl 1999 Category:Cotton Bowl Classic Cotton Bowl Classic Category:Texas Longhorns football bowl games Category:Mississippi State Bulldogs football bowl games Category:January 1999 sports events in the United States Category:1999 in sports in Texas Category:1990s in Dallas