The Texas Tech Red Raiders football team has appeared in 43 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 2024 Liberty Bowl (December) loss against the University of Arkansas Razorbacks. Nine of Texas Tech's 43 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. 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.
List of bowl games Statistics correct as of the end of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season #Bowl gameResultOpponentStadiumAttendanceBowl/All-Star Game Records "Bowl-by-Bowl Attendance", National Collegiate Athletic Association, 2009. pp. 297–303. Retrieved 2010-08-21Head coach1L 7–6West Virginia MountaineersKidd Field12,000‡2L 20–13Saint Mary's SaintsCotton Bowl40,000‡3L 6–0Tulsa Golden HurricanesKidd Field14,000‡4L 13–12Miami RedskinsKidd Field18,000‡5L 20–13San Jose State SpartansRatcliffe Stadium10,0006W 25–14Pacific TigersKidd Field17,0007W 35–13Auburn TigersGator Bowl Stadium28,4268L 21–14Wyoming CowboysKidd Field14,5009L 7–0Georgia BulldogsSun Bowl28,500‡10L 31–21Georgia Tech Yellow JacketsGator Bowl Stadium60,127‡11L 17–9Georgia Tech Yellow JacketsSun Bowl30,51212L 32–28North Carolina Tar HeelsSun Bowl31,31213W 28–19Tennessee VolunteersGator Bowl Stadium62,10914T 6–6Vanderbilt CommodoresAtlanta Stadium31,69515L 27–24Nebraska CornhuskersHouston Astrodome48,61816L 40–17Florida State SeminolesOrlando Stadium44,502‡17L 20–17Ole Miss RebelsIndependence Stadium46,36918W 49–21Duke Blue DevilsLegion Field47,75019L 41–10Oklahoma SoonersSun Bowl43,84820L 55–14USC TrojansCotton Bowl70,21821W 55–41Air Force FalconsArizona Stadium41,00422L 27–0Iowa HawkeyesAlamodome55,67723L 35–18Ole Miss RebelsIndependence Stadium46,86224L 40–27East Carolina PiratesReliant Astrodome33,89925L 19–16Iowa HawkeyesAlamodome65,23226W 55–15Clemson TigersFlorida Citrus Bowl21,68927W 38–14Navy MidshipmenReliant Stadium51,068†28W 45–31California Golden BearsQualcomm Stadium66,222†29L 13–10Alabama Crimson TideCotton Bowl74,22230W 44–41(OT)Minnesota Golden GophersSun Devil Stadium48,39131W 31–28Virginia CavaliersJacksonville Municipal Stadium60,24332L 47–34Ole Miss RebelsCotton Bowl88,175†33W 41–31Michigan State SpartansAlamodome64,75734W 45–38Northwestern WildcatsCotton Bowl40,121†35W 34–31Minnesota Golden GophersReliant Stadium50,38636W 37–23Arizona State Sun DevilsQualcomm Stadium52,93037L 56–27LSU TigersNRG Stadium71,05438L 38–34South Florida BullsLegion Field28,62339W 34–7Mississippi State BulldogsLiberty Bowl Memorial Stadium48,61540W 42–25Ole Miss RebelsNRG Stadium53,25141W 34–14California Golden BearsIndependence Stadium33,07142L 39–26Arkansas RazorbacksSimmons Bank Liberty Stadium37,76443L 23–0Oregon DucksHard Rock Stadium65,021 +General # Number of bowl games † Bowl game record attendance ‡ Former bowl game record attendance
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