| 2025 | South Florida vs Auburn |
| 2024 | TCU 26 Memphis 14 |
| 2023 | Memphis 35 Texas A&M 27 |
| 2022 | Kentucky 27 Central Florida 15 |
| 2021 | Louisiana 30 Wake Forest 24 |
| 2020 | Kansas State 30 Marshall 27 OT |
| 2019 | Appalachian State 49 Boise State 38 |
| 2018 | Missouri 49 California 35 |
| 2017 | West Virginia 38 Memphis 10 |
| 2016 | Virginia Tech 16 Mississippi 0 |
| 2015 | Auburn 41 Temple 31 |
| 2014 | South Carolina 12 Marshall 10 |
| 2013 | Central Florida 41 Miami (Fla.) 20 |
| 2012 | Boise State 29 Louisville 14 |
| 2011 | Auburn 17 Southern Miss 16 |
| 2010 | BYU 24 Connecticut 7 |
| 2009 | BYU 46 Houston 21 |
| 2008 | Tulsa 42 TCU 24 |
| 2007 | Wisconsin 24 Clemson 16 |
| 2006 | Boston College 39 Southern Miss 36 |
| 2005 | Memphis 24 Utah 10 |
| 2004 | Memphis 37 BYU 24 |
| 2003 | Louisville 20 Colorado State 18 |
| 2002 | Colorado State 31 TCU 30 |
| 2001 | Auburn 20 Louisville 13 |
| 2000 | Maryland 28 East Carolina 21 |
| 1999 | East Carolina 24 New Mexico 21 |
| 1998 | N. C. State 28 Utah 6 |
| 1997 | Virginia Tech 38 Houston 27 |
| 1996 | South Carolina 28 Southern Cal 10 |
| 1995 | Alabama 30 Clemson 12 |
| 1994 | Tennessee 25 West Virginia 21 |
| 1993 | Vanderbilt 38 Wake Forest 22 |
| 1992 | Mississippi State 23 Air Force 9 |
| 1991 | Southern Miss 24 N. C. State 6 |
| 1990 | Georgia 28 West Virginia 17 |
| 1989 | Arkansas 23 Florida 13 |
| 1988 | Wake Forest 23 Cornell 21 |
| 1987 | Holy Cross 27 Witchita State 24 |
| 1986 | Michigan State 13 Stanford 10 |
