List of Texas Tech Red Raiders bowl games explained

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.

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	Result	Opponent	Stadium	Attendance[3]	Head coach[4]
1		L 7–6	West Virginia Mountaineers	Kidd Field	12,000‡
2		L 20–13	Saint Mary's Saints	Cotton Bowl	40,000‡
3		L 6–0	Tulsa Golden Hurricanes	Kidd Field	14,000‡
4		L 13–12	Miami Redskins	Kidd Field	18,000‡
5		L 20–13	San Jose State Spartans	Ratcliffe Stadium	10,000
6		W 25–14	Pacific Tigers	Kidd Field	17,000
7		W 35–13	Auburn Tigers	Gator Bowl Stadium	28,426
8		L 21–14	Wyoming Cowboys	Kidd Field	14,500
9		L 7–0	Georgia Bulldogs	Sun Bowl Stadium	28,500‡
10		L 31–21	Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	Gator Bowl Stadium	60,127‡
11		L 17–9	Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	Sun Bowl Stadium	30,512
12		L 32–28	North Carolina Tar Heels	Sun Bowl Stadium	31,312
13		W 28–19	Tennessee Volunteers	Gator Bowl Stadium	62,109
14		T 6–6	Vanderbilt Commodores	Atlanta Stadium	31,695
15		L 27–24	Nebraska Cornhuskers	Houston Astrodome	48,618
16		L 40–17	Florida State Seminoles	Orlando Stadium	44,502‡
17		L 20–17	Ole Miss Rebels	Independence Stadium	46,369
18		W 49–21	Duke Blue Devils	Legion Field	47,750
19		L 41–10	Oklahoma Sooners	Sun Bowl Stadium	43,848
20		L 55–14	USC Trojans	Cotton Bowl	70,218
21		W 55–41	Air Force Falcons	Arizona Stadium	41,004
22		L 27–0	Iowa Hawkeyes	Alamodome	55,677
23		L 35–18	Ole Miss Rebels	Independence Stadium	46,862
24		L 40–27	East Carolina Pirates	Reliant Astrodome	33,899
25		L 19–16	Iowa Hawkeyes	Alamodome	65,232
26		W 55–15	Clemson Tigers	Florida Citrus Bowl	21,689
27		W 38–14	Navy Midshipmen	Reliant Stadium	51,068†
28		W 45–31	California Golden Bears	Qualcomm Stadium	66,222†
29		Vacated by Alabama 13–10	Alabama Crimson Tide	Cotton Bowl	74,222
30		W 44–41(OT)	Minnesota Golden Gophers	Sun Devil Stadium	48,391
31		W 31–28	Virginia Cavaliers	Jacksonville Municipal Stadium	60,243
32		L 47–34	Ole Miss Rebels	Cotton Bowl	88,175†
33		W 41–31	Michigan State Spartans	Alamodome	64,757
34		W 45–38	Northwestern Wildcats	Cotton Bowl	40,121†
35		W 34–31	Minnesota Golden Gophers	Reliant Stadium	50,386
36		W 37–23	Arizona State Sun Devils	Qualcomm Stadium	52,930
37		Vacated by LSU 56–27	LSU Tigers	NRG Stadium	71,054
38		L 38–34	South Florida Bulls	Legion Field	28,623
39		W 34–7	Mississippi State Bulldogs	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium	48,615
40		W 42–25	Ole Miss Rebels	NRG Stadium	53,251
41		W 34–14	California Golden Bears	Independence Stadium	33,071
General Number of bowl games † Bowl game record attendance ‡ Former bowl game record attendance Results W Win L Loss T Tie

Notes

Bowl game

Head coach

References

General

• Web site: Bowl/All-Star Game Records . . 2010-08-12.

Specific

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bowl-by-Bowl Attendance. Bowl/All-Star Game Records . . 32–38 . PDF . 2010-12-11.
2. Web site: Major Bowl-Game Attendance . Bowl/All-Star Game Records . . 33 . PDF . 2010-12-11.
3. http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/DI/2008/bowl.pdf Bowl/All-Star Game Records
4. Web site: 2010 Media Supplement . Texas Tech University . 2010-08-06 .