List of college football post-season games that were rematches of regular season games

This is a list of NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football post-season games that were rematches of regular season games.

There appears to be a clear advantage in a bowl rematch for the team that lost in the regular season, as the regular season losers have a record of 15–7 in the bowls, and in five of the losses the margin for the team that won twice was smaller the second time. This is in contrast to rematches that occur in conference championship games where the winners of the first game have a record of 19–11.

Texas A&M defeated LSU at Baton Rouge by a score of 28–13. The two teams were selected to play in the Orange Bowl after each finished second in their respective conferences. In the rematch, LSU won by a score of 19–14.

Wake Forest and South Carolina Gamecocks football tied 13–13 in a game played at Charlotte, NC. Neither team had played in a bowl game before and were invited to face each other again in the first Gator Bowl. Wake Forest beat the Gamecocks 28-14 before a sparse crowd of 7,362.

Iowa hosted Oregon State on Oct. 6, coming away with a 14–13 victory. After the Beavers won the Pacific Coast Conference and the Hawkeyes became champions of the Big Ten Conference both earned a spot in the Rose Bowl. Oregon State was more productive offensively, but Iowa was even more so and won 35-19.

The defending national champion LSU Tigers scored in the 4th quarter to beat visiting Ole Miss 7–3, one of only three scores that the Rebel defense gave up all season. After getting past Ole Miss, LSU lost by a point to Tennessee. With Southeastern Conference champion Georgia, who had faced neither Ole Miss nor LSU, selected to play in the Orange Bowl, the Sugar Bowl chose to have the home-state Tigers, ranked #3 nationally, face a rematch against #2 Ole Miss. The Rebels held LSU to just 74 yards of offense, winning by a score of 21–0. This is one of only three bowl games to have featured a rematch of conference foes. Oddly, LSU has not only been in two of them but has lost by the same score each time.

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