Bowl Games
| ORANGE BOWL | #3 Texas Longhorns | 21 | #1 Alabama Crimson Tide | 17 |
| COTTON BOWL | #2 Arkansas Razorbacks | 10 | #6 Nebraska Cornhuskers | 7 |
| ROSE BOWL | #5 Michigan Wolverines | 34 | #8 Oregon State Beavers | 7 |
| SUGAR BOWL | #7 LSU Tigers | 10 | Syracuse Orangemen | 7 |
In the Orange Bowl, #1 Alabama, led by quarterback Joe Namath, fell to #5 Texas 21-17. In the final minutes, down by four and facing 4th-and-goal at the Texas 1, Joe Namath ran a quarterback sneak but was stopped short of the goal. In the Cotton Bowl Classic, Arkansas quarterback Fred Marshall drove #2 Arkansas to a touchdown with 4:41 left to beat #6 Nebraska 10-7. Notable members of the 1964 Arkansas team include Jerry Jones, later the billionaire owner of the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL, and Jimmy Johnson, whom Jones would hire as coach of the Cowboys. #5 Michigan routed #8 Oregon State 34-7 in the Rose Bowl, while in the Sugar Bowl, #7 LSU beat unranked Syracuse 10-7 on a late field goal.
A five member committee of the Football Writers Association of America awarded the University of Arkansas Razorbacks the "Grantland Rice Trophy" as the #1 team in a poll taken after the bowl games. The Helms Athletic Foundation, which also took polls after the bowl games, named Arkansas as 1964 National Champions. Notre Dame was named as the National Football Foundation's national champion. In 1965, the AP's final poll came after the bowl games, but the policy did not become permanent until 1968. The Coaches' Poll adopted the same policy in 1974. Arkansas and Alabama legitimately claim the 1964 National Championship, since all selectors of national title teams are documented in the official 2010 NCAA FBS College Football Record Book. These selectors, including the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll, were nationally-syndicated in newspapers and magazines during the 1964 football season.
Other bowls:
| BOWL | Location | Winner | Loser |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN | El Paso | Georgia 7 | Texas Tech 0 |
| GATOR | Jacksonville | Florida State 36 | Oklahoma 19 |
| TANGERINE | Orlando | East Carolina 14 | Massachusetts 13 |
| BLUEBONNET | Houston | Tulsa 14 | Mississippi 7 |
| LIBERTY | Atlantic City | Utah 32 | West Virginia 6 |
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