There are many articles in the literature dealing with the first-order and the second-order differential subordination and differential superordination problems for analytic functions in the unit disk, but there are only a few articles dealing with the third-order differential subordination problems. The concept of third-order differential subordination in the unit disk was introduced by Antonino and Miller, and studied recently by Tang and Deniz. Let be a set in the complex plane C, let p(z) be analytic in the unit disk U = {z : z ∈ C and |z| < 1}, and let ψ : C 4 ×U → C. In this paper, we investigate the problem of determining properties of functions p(z) that satisfy the following third-order differential superordination:As applications, we derive some third-order differential superordination results for analytic functions in U, which are associated with a family of generalized Bessel functions. The results are obtained by considering suitable classes of admissible functions. New third-order differential sandwich-type results are also obtained.