Post-season Bowl Games
Texas Tech has played in 34 post-season bowl games with an all-time record of 12 wins, 21 losses, and 1 tie. The Red Raiders rank fourth among current Big 12 Conference programs in bowl game appearances, and also boasted the distinction of being the only program in the conference to be bowl eligible every season since its formation in 1996, until the 2011 season. Along with the Miami Hurricanes and Ole Miss Rebels, the 34 bowl game appearances by the Red Raiders rank the program 20th all-time in bowl games played.
Texas Tech's first bowl game was at the conclusion of the 1937 season, only 13 years after the program was established. The Red Raiders played in the 1938 Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, against the West Virginia Mountaineers on New Year's Day. Nine of Texas Tech's 33 bowl game bids have been to the Sun Bowl., the most appearances by any team to the second-oldest college football bowl game. Texas Tech's 2011 bowl game appearance, the 2011 TicketCity Bowl, occurred on January 1, 2011, when the Red Raiders won, 45–38, against the Northwestern Wildcats. The game was the team's eleventh consecutive bowl appearance that began with the 2000 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl, in former head coach Mike Leach's first season.
Texas Tech's most recent bowl game appearance, the 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas, occurred on December 28, 2012, when the Red Raiders won, 34–31, against the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
In 10 seasons, Mike Leach's 9 bowl game appearances and 5 wins are the most of any the program's head coaches. Only 4 head coaches, E. Y. Freeland, Grady Higginbotham, Rex Dockery, and Jerry Moore, did not lead Texas Tech to a postseason bowl game. In the 1952 Sun Bowl, DeWitt Weaver was the first head coach to led the Red Raiders to a bowl game victory. Although both Pete Cawthon and Dell Morgan had led the program to previous bowl games, neither posted wins in their 5 combined appearances.
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.
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