List of Texas Tech Red Raiders bowl games

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A play during the 1939 Cotton Bowl Classic between Texas Tech and St. Mary's

The Texas Tech Red Raiders football team has appeared in 41 post-season bowl games since the team's inaugural season in 1925. Texas Tech's rich bowl tradition ranks 20th in all-time bowl appearances and has set many bowl game attendance records. The Red Raiders have an overall bowl record of 17 wins, 23 losses, and 1 tie.

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Texas Tech's first post-season bowl game was at the conclusion of the 1937 season, when the Red Raiders played in the 1938 Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas against the West Virginia Mountaineers. Texas Tech's most recent bowl game appearance was the 2023 Independence Bowl (December) victory against the University of California Golden Bears. Nine of Texas Tech's 41 bowl game bids have been to the Sun Bowl, the most appearances by any team to the second-oldest college football bowl game.

Attendance records

The Red Raiders' fans have set attendance records at 10 bowl games, including the team's first bowl game appearance in the 1938 Sun Bowl. [1] Although 8 of the 10 attendance records were eventually broken, attendance records from 2 bowl game appearances, the 2004 Pacific Life Holiday Bowl and 2009 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, remain unbroken. The 2009 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic's attendance record of 88,175 was the second-most attended bowl game of the 2008–09 bowl game season. [1] [2]

List of bowl games

Statistics correct as of the end of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season
#Bowl game [A 1] ResultOpponentStadiumAttendance [3] Head coach [4]
1 1938 Sun Bowl [A 2] West Virginia Mountaineers Kidd Field 12,000‡ Pete Cawthon
2 1939 Cotton Bowl Classic [A 3] Saint Mary's Saints Cotton Bowl 40,000‡ Pete Cawthon
3 1942 Sun Bowl [A 2] Tulsa Golden Hurricanes Kidd Field 14,000‡ Dell Morgan
4 1948 Sun Bowl [A 2] Miami Redskins Kidd Field 18,000‡ Dell Morgan
5 1949 Raisin Bowl San Jose State Spartans Ratcliffe Stadium 10,000 Dell Morgan
6 1952 Sun Bowl [A 2] Pacific Tigers Kidd Field 17,000 DeWitt Weaver
7 1954 Gator Bowl [A 4] Auburn Tigers Gator Bowl Stadium 28,426 DeWitt Weaver
8 1956 Sun Bowl [A 2] Wyoming Cowboys Kidd Field 14,500 DeWitt Weaver
9 1964 Sun Bowl [A 2] Georgia Bulldogs Sun Bowl Stadium 28,500‡ J. T. King
10 1965 Gator Bowl [A 4] Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Gator Bowl Stadium 60,127‡ J. T. King
11 1970 Sun Bowl [A 2] Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Sun Bowl Stadium 30,512 Jim Carlen
12 1972 Sun Bowl [A 2] North Carolina Tar Heels Sun Bowl Stadium 31,312 Jim Carlen
13 1973 Gator Bowl [A 4] Tennessee Volunteers Gator Bowl Stadium 62,109 Jim Carlen
14 1974 Peach Bowl [A 5] Vanderbilt Commodores Atlanta Stadium 31,695 Jim Carlen
15 1976 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl [A 6] Nebraska Cornhuskers Houston Astrodome 48,618 Steve Sloan
16 1977 Tangerine Bowl [A 7] Florida State Seminoles Orlando Stadium 44,502‡ Steve Sloan
17 1986 Independence Bowl [A 8] Ole Miss Rebels Independence Stadium 46,369 Spike Dykes [B 1]
18 1989 All-American Bowl Duke Blue Devils Legion Field 47,750 Spike Dykes
19 1993 John Hancock Bowl [A 2] Oklahoma Sooners Sun Bowl Stadium 43,848 Spike Dykes
20 1995 Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic [A 3] USC Trojans Cotton Bowl 70,218 Spike Dykes
21 1995 Weiser Lock Copper Bowl [A 9] Air Force Falcons Arizona Stadium 41,004 Spike Dykes
22 1996 Builders Square Alamo Bowl [A 10] Iowa Hawkeyes Alamodome 55,677 Spike Dykes
23 1998 Sanford Independence Bowl [A 8] Ole Miss Rebels Independence Stadium 46,862 Spike Dykes
24 2000 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl [A 11] East Carolina Pirates Reliant Astrodome 33,899 Mike Leach
25 2001 Sylvania Alamo Bowl [A 10] Iowa Hawkeyes Alamodome 65,232 Mike Leach
26 2002 Mazda Tangerine Bowl [A 12] Clemson Tigers Florida Citrus Bowl 21,689 Mike Leach
27 2003 Houston Bowl [A 11] Navy Midshipmen Reliant Stadium 51,068† Mike Leach
28 2004 Pacific Life Holiday Bowl [A 13] California Golden Bears Qualcomm Stadium 66,222† Mike Leach
29 2006 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic [A 3] Alabama Crimson Tide Cotton Bowl 74,222 Mike Leach
30 2006 Insight Bowl [A 9] Minnesota Golden Gophers Sun Devil Stadium 48,391 Mike Leach
31 2008 Konica Minolta Gator Bowl [A 4] Virginia Cavaliers Jacksonville Municipal Stadium 60,243 Mike Leach
32 2009 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic [A 3] Ole Miss Rebels Cotton Bowl 88,175† Mike Leach
33 2010 Valero Alamo Bowl [A 10] Michigan State Spartans Alamodome 64,757 Ruffin McNeill [B 2]
34 2011 TicketCity Bowl Northwestern Wildcats Cotton Bowl 40,121† Tommy Tuberville
35 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas Minnesota Golden Gophers Reliant Stadium 50,386 Chris Thomsen [B 3]
36 2013 National University Holiday Bowl Arizona State Sun Devils Qualcomm Stadium 52,930 Kliff Kingsbury
37 2015 Texas Bowl LSU Tigers NRG Stadium 71,054 Kliff Kingsbury
38 2017 Birmingham Bowl South Florida Bulls Legion Field 28,623 Kliff Kingsbury
39 2021 Liberty Bowl Mississippi State Bulldogs Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium 48,615 Sonny Cumbie
40 2022 Texas Bowl Ole Miss Rebels NRG Stadium 53,251 Joey McGuire
41 2023 Independence Bowl California Golden Bears Independence Stadium 33,071 Joey McGuire

Notes

Bowl game
  1. ↑ Bowl games are sorted by current name without sponsorship titles.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The Sun Bowl has been known as the: Sun Bowl (1936–86, 1994–95), John Hancock Sun Bowl (1987–88), John Hancock Bowl (1989–93), Norwest Bank Sun Bowl (1996), Norwest Sun Bowl (1997–98), Wells Fargo Sun Bowl (1999–03), Vitalis Sun Bowl (2004–05), Brut Sun Bowl (2006–09), and Hyundai Sun Bowl (since 2010). [5] [6]
  3. 1 2 3 4 The Cotton Bowl Classic has been known as the: Cotton Bowl Classic (1937–88, 1996), Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic (1989–95), Southwestern Bell (1997–2000), SBC Cotton Bowl Classic (2001–06), AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic (since 2007) [5]
  4. 1 2 3 4 The Gator Bowl has been known as: the Gator Bowl (1946–85), Mazda Gator Bowl (1986–91), Outback Steakhouse Gator Bowl (1992–94), Toyota Gator Bowl (1995–2007), and Konica Minolta Gator (since 2008) [5]
  5. ↑ The Chick-fil-A Bowl has been known as: the Peach Bowl (1968–96), Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (1997–2005), and Chick-fil-A Bowl (since 2006) [5]
  6. ↑ The Bluebonnet Bowl has been known as: the Bluebonnet Bowl (1959–67, 1985–86), and Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl (1968–84, 1987) [5]
  7. ↑ The Capital One Bowl has been known as: the Tangerine Bowl (1947–82), Florida Citrus Bowl (1983–93), CompUSA Florida Citrus Bowl (1994–99), OurHouse.com Florida Citrus Bowl (2000), Capital One Florida Citrus Bowl (2001–02), Capital One Bowl (since 2003) [5]
  8. 1 2 The Independence Bowl has been known as: the Independence Bowl (1976–89, 2004–05), Poulan Independence Bowl (1990), Poulan/Weed Eater Independence Bowl (1991–97), Sanford Independence Bowl (1998–2000), MainStay Independence Bowl (2001–03), and PetroSun Independence Bowl (since 2006) [5]
  9. 1 2 The Insight Bowl has been known as: the Copper Bowl (1989, 1996), Domino's Pizza Copper Bowl (1990–91), Weiser Lock Copper Bowl (1992–95), Insight.com Bowl (1997–2001), and Insight Bowl (since 2002) [5]
  10. 1 2 3 The Alamo Bowl has been known as: the Builders Square Alamo Bowl (1993–98), the Sylvania Alamo Bowl (1999–2001), MasterCard Alamo Bowl (2002–05), Alamo Bowl (2006) and Valero Alamo Bowl (since 2007) [5]
  11. 1 2 The Houston Bowl has been known as: the Galleryfurniture.com Bowl (2000–01) and EV1.net Houston Bowl (2002–05) [5]
  12. ↑ The Champs Sports Bowl has been known as: the Blockbuster Bowl (1990–93), Carquest Bowl (1994–97), MicronPC Bowl (1998–99), MicronPC.com Bowl (2000), Visit Florida Tangerine Bowl (2001), Mazda Tangerine Bowl (2002–03), and Champs Sports Bowl (since 2004) [5]
  13. ↑ The Holiday Bowl has been known as: the Holiday Bowl (1978–85), Sea World Holiday Bowl (1986–90), Thrifty Car Rental Holiday Bowl (1991–94), Plymouth Holiday Bowl (1995–97), Culligan Holiday Bowl (1998–2001), Pacific Life Holiday Bowl (2002–09), and Bridgeport Education Holiday Bowl (since 2010) [5] [7]
Head coach
  1. ↑ Dykes was named interim head coach after David McWilliams resigned prior to the 1986 Independence Bowl. [4]
  2. ↑ McNeill was named interim head coach after Mike Leach was fired prior to the 2010 Valero Alamo Bowl. [4]
  3. ↑ Thomsen, the OL coach, was named interim head coach after Tommy Tuberville resigned prior to the 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas. [8]

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