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Cotton Bowl Classic

Arlington, TX · Sports

When

January 1, 2027

Where

AT&T Stadium · Arlington · TX

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

One of college football's oldest bowl games, matching two ranked teams each New Year's season at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. First played in 1937, it moved to its current stadium in 2010 and remains a marquee stop on the bowl calendar. The 91st edition is played Friday, January 1, 2027.

The history within reach

• Cotton Bowl Classicsame spot

  One of college football's oldest bowl games, matching two ranked teams each New Year's season at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

• Arlington condemns 150 homes for a stadium0.1 mi

  Voters approved a half-cent tax and the city condemned around 150 homes and businesses to clear the site.

• Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson0.1 mi

  A YouTuber-turned-boxer against a 58-year-old Mike Tyson, in front of 72,000 people and the biggest streaming audience any fight had ever had, so big it buckled Netflix's servers.

• Caelum Moor comes back out of storage0.5 mi

  Norman Hines spent two years carving five groups of granite, 540 tons of it with Celtic names, for a developer who wanted something at the head of Johnson Creek.

• The Rangers come to Arlington0.6 mi

  The failing Washington Senators moved to a minor league park between Dallas and Fort Worth, in a city with no team of its own.