The Syracuse Orange football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing Syracuse University in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Since the establishment of the team in 1890, Syracuse has appeared in 28 bowl games.Bowl/All-Star Game Records, pp. 25–26 Included in these games are 7 combined appearances in the traditional "big four" bowl games (the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, and Orange) and 1 Bowl Championship Series (BCS) game appearances.Bowl/All-Star Game Records, p. 31 The latest bowl appearance for Syracuse was a win against Washington State in the 2024 Holiday Bowl. This took Syracuse's all-time bowl record to 17 wins, 11 losses and one tie (17–11–1).
In addition to the bowls listed below, Syracuse also declined an invitation to the 1915 Rose Bowl due to an earlier trip to the West Coast.
Bowl games + List of bowl games showing bowl played in, score, date, season, opponent, stadium, location, attendance and head coach#BowlScoreDateSeasonOpponentStadiumLocationAttendanceHead coach1 Orange Bowl1952AlabamaOrange BowlMiami, Florida66,2802 Cotton Bowl Classic1956TCUCotton BowlDallas, Texas61,5003 Orange Bowl1958OklahomaOrange BowlMiami, Florida75,2814 Cotton Bowl Classic1959TexasCotton BowlDallas, Texas75,5005 Liberty Bowl1961MiamiPhiladelphia Municipal StadiumPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania15,7126 Sugar Bowl1964LSUTulane StadiumNew Orleans, Louisiana65,0007 Gator Bowl1966TennesseeGator Bowl StadiumJacksonville, Florida60,3128 Independence Bowl1979McNeese StateIndependence StadiumShreveport, Louisiana27,2349 Cherry Bowl1985MarylandPontiac SilverdomePontiac, Michigan51,85810 Sugar Bowl1987AuburnLouisiana SuperdomeNew Orleans, Louisiana75,49511 Hall of Fame Bowl1988LSUTampa StadiumTampa, Florida51,11212 Peach Bowl1989GeorgiaAtlanta–Fulton County StadiumAtlanta, Georgia44,99113 Aloha Bowl1990ArizonaAloha StadiumHonolulu, Hawaii14,18514 Hall of Fame Bowl1991Ohio StateTampa StadiumTampa, Florida57,78915 Fiesta Bowl1992ColoradoSun Devil StadiumTempe, Arizona70,22416 Gator Bowl1995ClemsonJacksonville Municipal StadiumJacksonville, Florida45,20217 Liberty Bowl1996HoustonLiberty Bowl Memorial StadiumMemphis, Tennessee49,16318 Fiesta Bowl1997Kansas StateSun Devil StadiumTempe, Arizona69,36719 Orange Bowl1998FloridaOrange BowlMiami, Florida67,91920 Music City Bowl1999KentuckyAdelphia ColiseumNashville, Tennessee59,22121 Insight.com Bowl2001Kansas StateBank One BallparkPhoenix, Arizona40,02822 Champs Sports Bowl2004Georgia TechCitrus BowlOrlando, Florida28,23723 Pinstripe Bowl2010Kansas StateYankee StadiumNew York City, New York38,27424 Pinstripe Bowl2012West VirginiaYankee StadiumNew York City, New York39,09825 Texas Bowl2013MinnesotaReliant StadiumHouston, Texas32,32726 Camping World Bowl2018West VirginiaCamping World StadiumOrlando, Florida41,12527 Pinstripe Bowl2022MinnesotaYankee StadiumNew York City, New York31,13128 Boca Raton Bowl2023South FloridaFAU StadiumBoca Raton, Florida20,711 (interim)29 Holiday Bowl2024Washington StateSnapdragon StadiumSan Diego, California23,920
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