2023 Texas Bowl

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2023 TaxAct Texas Bowl
17th Texas Bowl
DateDecember 27, 2023
Season 2023
Stadium NRG Stadium
Location Houston, Texas
Favorite Texas A&M by 3.5 [1]
Referee Chris Coyte (Big 10) [2]
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN
ESPN Radio
Announcers Roy Philpott (play-by-play), Roddy Jones (analyst), and Taylor McGregor (sideline) (ESPN)
Marc Kestecher (play-by-play) and Kelly Stouffer (analyst) (ESPN Radio)
International TV coverage
Network ESPN Deportes
Texas Bowl
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The 2023 Texas Bowl is a college football bowl game scheduled to be played on December 27, 2023, at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. The 17th annual Texas Bowl game will feature Oklahoma State from the Big 12 Conference and Texas A&M from the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game is scheduled to kickoff at 9:00 p.m. EST and will be aired on ESPN. [3] [4] The Texas Bowl is one of the 2023–24 bowl games concluding the 2023 FBS football season. The bowl game is sponsored by tax preparation software company TaxAct and is officially the TaxAct Texas Bowl.

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Teams

Consistent with conference tie-ins, the bowl features the Oklahoma State Cowboys of the Big 12 Conference and the Texas A&M Aggies of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

This will be the 29th meeting between Oklahoma State and Texas A&M; the Aggies lead the Cowboys 18–10 in the all-time series. It will also be the third time the two teams have faced each other in a bowl game; Texas A&M has won both meetings to date, the 1981 Independence Bowl and 2019 Texas Bowl. [5]

On two occasions, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M were in the same conference, playing together in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during 1915–1924 and in the Big 12 during 1996–2011.

Oklahoma State Cowboys

The Cowboys enter the game with a 9–4 record (7–2 in the Big 12) and ranked #20 in the College Football Playoff rankings. Having defeated Oklahoma on November 4, 27–24, the Cowboys won the tiebreaker for second place in the Big 12 and advanced to the 2023 Big 12 Championship Game, which they lost to Texas, 49–21.

This will be Oklahoma State's second Texas Bowl, following the aforementioned loss to Texas A&M in the 2019 game.

Texas A&M Aggies

The Aggies enter the game with a 7–5 record (4–4 in the SEC), having finished in fourth place in their conference's West Division.

This will be Texas A&M's fourth Texas Bowl, the most appearances in the game. In addition to their 2019 triumph over Oklahoma State, the Aggies won the 2011 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas (when the bowl operated under than name) and lost the 2016 Texas Bowl.

Game summary

2023 TaxAct Texas Bowl
Period1234Total
No. 20 Oklahoma State----0
Texas A&M----0

at NRG StadiumHouston, Texas

Game information
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter

Statistics

StatisticsOSUTAMU
First downs
Plays–yards
Rushes–yards
Passing yards
Passing: comp–att–int––––
Time of possession
TeamCategoryPlayerStatistics
Oklahoma StatePassing
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Receiving
Texas A&MPassing
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