The
Houston Bowl is a now-defunct
NCAAThe National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada...
-sanctioned Division I-A
college footballCollege football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies. It was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States...
bowl game that was played annually in
Houston, TexasHouston is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2008 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of...
from 2000-2005. The game was originally known as the
galleryfurniture.com Bowl (for the website of the Houston furniture chain of
the same nameJim McIngvale is a businessman from Houston, the founder of the Houston furniture store Gallery Furniture....
) in 2000 and 2001. In 2002, the
Houston Bowl was born and later named the EV1.net
Houston Bowl for the remainder of the game's existence.
The
Houston Bowl was played in two locations during its tenure.
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The
Houston Bowl is a now-defunct
NCAAThe National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada...
-sanctioned Division I-A
college footballCollege football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies. It was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States...
bowl game that was played annually in
Houston, TexasHouston is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2008 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of...
from 2000-2005. The game was originally known as the
galleryfurniture.com Bowl (for the website of the Houston furniture chain of
the same nameJim McIngvale is a businessman from Houston, the founder of the Houston furniture store Gallery Furniture....
) in 2000 and 2001. In 2002, the
Houston Bowl was born and later named the EV1.net
Houston Bowl for the remainder of the game's existence.
The
Houston Bowl was played in two locations during its tenure. Houston's
Reliant AstrodomeReliant Astrodome, also known as the Houston Astrodome or simply the Astrodome, is a domed sports stadium, the first of its kind, located in Houston, Texas, USA. The stadium is part of the Reliant Park complex...
housed the
galleryfurniture.com Bowl. And, in 2002, the game moved to
Reliant StadiumReliant Stadium is a multiple-use stadium in Houston, Texas, USA. The stadium is the home of the National Football League's Houston Texans, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Texas Bowl, host to many international soccer matches for the USA National Soccer Team and other events...
, the home of the NFL's
Houston TexansThe Houston Texans is a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . The Texans joined the NFL in 2002 as an expansion team after Houston's previous franchise,...
. However, after 2005, the bowl failed to return EV1.net as a sponsor, and the bowl was ended.
Previous to the Houston Bowl, the
Bluebonnet BowlThe Bluebonnet Bowl was an annual college football bowl game played in Houston, Texas. A civic group was appointed by the Houston Chamber of Commerce Athletics Committee in 1959 to organize the bowl game. It was held at Rice Stadium from 1959 through 1967, and again in 1985 and 1986. The game was...
was played in Houston. As of 2008, the
Texas BowlThe Texas Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game that has been held for the first time in 2006 in Houston, Texas. The bowl replaces the now-defunct Houston Bowl, which was played annually from 2000 to 2005. The first bowl game in Houston was the Bluebonnet...
is played in Houston.
Previous results
| Date Played | | Winning Team | | Losing Team | Notes |
|---|
| December 27, 2000 |
East Carolina |
40 |
Texas Tech |
27 |
notes The 2000 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game between the Texas Tech University Red Raiders from the Big 12 and the East Carolina University Pirates from Conference USA at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas on December 27, 2000. It was the inaugural game in the...
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| December 28, 2001 |
Texas A&MThe 2001 Texas A&M Aggies football team completed the season with a 8-4 record. The Aggies had a regular season Big 12 record of 4-4.-Schedule:-McNeese State:-Wyoming:-Oklahoma State:-Notre Dame:-Baylor:-Colorado:...
|
28 |
| 9 |
notes The 2001 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl was the second edition of the college football bowl game , and was be played at the Reliant Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The game pitted the Texas A&M University Aggies from the Big 12 and the from Conference USA...
|
| December 27, 2002 |
Oklahoma StateThe Oklahoma State Cowboys represented the Oklahoma State University in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cowboys' Houston Bowl appearance in 2002 was only the second time in 14 years that OSU made it to a bowl game.-Schedule:...
|
33 |
| 23 |
notes The 2002 EV1.net Houston Bowl was the third edition of the college football bowl game , and was be played at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. The game pitted the Oklahoma State University Cowboys from the Big 12 and the from Conference USA...
|
| December 30, 2003 |
Texas Tech |
38 |
| 14 |
notes |
| December 29, 2004 |
|
33 |
| 28 |
notes The 2004 EV1.net Houston Bowl was the fifth edition of the college football bowl game, and was be played at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. The game pitted the from the Big 12 and the from the Western Athletic Conference...
|
| December 30, 2005 |
|
27 |
| 24 |
notes The 2005 EV1.net Houston Bowl was the sixth and final edition of the college football bowl game, and was be played at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. The game pitted the from the Big 12 and the from the Mountain West Conference...
|
MVPs
| Date played |
MVPs |
Team |
Position |
| December 27, 2000 |
David GarrardDavid Douglas Garrard is an American football quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Jaguars in the 4th round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at East Carolina University.David Garrard grew up in Durham, North Carolina,...
|
East Carolina |
QB |
| Bernard Williams Bennie Bernard Williams is a former American and Canadian football offensive tackle. Williams was the Eagles first round draft pick in the 1994 NFL Draft and started all 16 games for them in 1994, but was banned from the NFL after failing 15 drug tests...
|
East Carolina |
DT |
| December 28, 2001 |
Byron Jones |
Texas A&MThe 2001 Texas A&M Aggies football team completed the season with a 8-4 record. The Aggies had a regular season Big 12 record of 4-4.-Schedule:-McNeese State:-Wyoming:-Oklahoma State:-Notre Dame:-Baylor:-Colorado:...
|
DB |
| Joe Weber |
Texas A&M |
RB |
| December 27, 2002 |
Rashaun Woods Rashaun Dorrell Woods is a professional football player who recently played in the Canadian Football League prior to his release by the Hamilton Tiger Cats on June 22, 2008...
|
Oklahoma StateThe Oklahoma State Cowboys represented the Oklahoma State University in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cowboys' Houston Bowl appearance in 2002 was only the second time in 14 years that OSU made it to a bowl game.-Schedule:...
|
WR |
| Kevin Williams |
Oklahoma State |
DT |
| December 30, 2003 |
B.J. Symons Brian Symons better known as B. J. Symons is an American football quarterback, last playing for the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League. He was originally drafted by the Houston Texans in the seventh round of the 2004 NFL Draft...
|
Texas Tech |
QB |
| Adell Duckett |
Texas Tech |
DL |
| December 29, 2004 |
Joel Klatt Joel Klatt is an American football hopeful. He was not drafted in the 2006 NFL draft but he did attend the Detroit Lions' and New Orleans Saints' rookie mini-camps after the draft. New Orleans signed him to a free-agent contract after their mini-camp, but then released him 11 days later on June 2,...
|
| QB |
| Tom Hubbard Dr. Tom Hubbard was the first librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library and is the author, editor or co-editor of over thirty academic and literary works. Dr...
|
Colorado |
S |
| December 31, 2005 |
Jeff Ballard |
| QB |
| Jason Berryman |
| DL |
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