Texas Bowl

The Texas Bowl is a bowl game held in Houston, Texas since 2000. The bowl began as the Houston Bowl, and was played at the Astrodome its first two years before moving to Reliant Stadium. in 2005, the bowl ceased operations, but the rights to the game were purchased and it became the Texas Bowl in 2006. On paper, the two bowl games are separate, but are treated here as the same since the operation essentially continued uninterrupted. In 2011, Meineke Car Care, formerly the sponsor of the Queen City Bowl, took over sponsorship.

As the Houston Bowl, the game featured a matchup of Conference USA and Big 12 Conference teams, with Navy stepping in one year when CUSA couldn't fill their quota. As the Texas Bowl, there has not been a stable tie-in, as various conferences have signed series of one-year deals with the bowl.

Results

27 DEC 2000	East Carolina	40	Texas Tech	27
28 DEC 2001	Texas A&M	28	Texas Christian	9
27 DEC 2002	Oklahoma State	33	Southern Mississippi	23
30 DEC 2003	Texas Tech	38	Navy	14
29 DEC 2004	Colorado	33	Texas-El Paso	28
30 DEC 2005	Texas Christian	27	Iowa State	24
28 DEC 2006	Rutgers	37	Kansas State	10
28 DEC 2007	Texas Christian	20	Houston	13
30 DEC 2008	Rice	38	Western Michigan	14
31 DEC 2009	Navy	35	Missouri	13
29 DEC 2010	Illinois	38	Baylor	14
30 DEC 2011	Texas A&M	33	Northwestern	22
28 DEC 2012	Texas Tech	34	Minnesota	31
27 DEC 2013	Syracuse	21	Minnesota	17
29 DEC 2014	Arkansas	31	Texas	7