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Texas with opportunity to be the first program with wins in each New Year's Six bowl games

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When the 5th-seed Texas Longhorns face off with the 4th-seed Arizona State Sun Devils from the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl on January 1st in Atlanta, Ga, they have a chance to pull off something spectacular in the modern college era.

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With a win on New Year’s Day, Texas would become the first college football program in history to win every New Year’s Six bowl game. They are 18-14-1 in the six major bowls.

With wins in the Rose Bowl (2-0), Orange Bowl (2-0), Fiesta Bowl (1-1), Sugar Bowl (2-3), and Cotton Bowl (11-10-1), all that remains on the board is the Peach Bowl from Mercedes-Benz stadium in Atlanta.

It’s Texas first appearance in the Peach Bowl. The Longhorns have appeared in 61 bowl games boasting a 32-26-2 mark in that span.

For Sarkisian, who was named a finalist for the George Munger Award given annually to the coach of the year, is looking for his first bowl win in Austin. Coincidentally, Sarkisian has faced Washington in both of his bowl appearances as Texas head coach. They dropped the Alamo Bowl, 27-20, in 2022. Then lost the Sugar Bowl, 37-31, in 2023.

Sarkisian has led the Longhorns to an 12-2 record, an SEC Championship Game appearance and a College Football Playoff First Round victory in Texas’ second-consecutive College Football Playoff appearance. Texas has back-to-back 12-plus win seasons for the first time since 2008-09. It’s the program’s fifth 12-plus win season (2005, 2008, 2009, 2023, 2024).

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The Horns sport an 11-game true road game winning streak – the longest active streak by an FBS team. Since the start of the 2023 season, Texas is 24-4 with only four losses against AP top-12 opponents. In Texas’ last 30 games, the Longhorns are 25-5 with their only five losses also to AP top-12 opponents.

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