# List of Texas Tech Red Raiders bowl games

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. 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
General :
| # | Bowl game | Result | Opponent | Stadium | Attendance | Head coach |
| 1 | 1938 Sun Bowl | L 7–6 | West Virginia Mountaineers | Kidd Field | 12,000$^‡$ | Pete Cawthon |
| 2 | 1939 Cotton Bowl Classic | L 20–13 | Saint Mary's Saints | Cotton Bowl | 40,000$^‡$ | Pete Cawthon |
| 3 | 1942 Sun Bowl | L 6–0 | Tulsa Golden Hurricanes | Kidd Field | 14,000$^‡$ | Dell Morgan |
| 4 | 1948 Sun Bowl | L 13–12 | Miami Redskins | Kidd Field | 18,000$^‡$ | Dell Morgan |
| 5 | 1949 Raisin Bowl | L 20–13 | San Jose State Spartans | Ratcliffe Stadium | 10,000 | Dell Morgan |
| 6 | 1952 Sun Bowl | W 25–14 | Pacific Tigers | Kidd Field | 17,000 | DeWitt Weaver |
| 7 | 1954 Gator Bowl | W 35–13 | Auburn Tigers | Gator Bowl Stadium | 28,426 | DeWitt Weaver |
| 8 | 1956 Sun Bowl | L 21–14 | Wyoming Cowboys | Kidd Field | 14,500 | DeWitt Weaver |
| 9 | 1964 Sun Bowl | L 7–0 | Georgia Bulldogs | Sun Bowl Stadium | 28,500$^‡$ | J. T. King |
| 10 | 1965 Gator Bowl | L 31–21 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | Gator Bowl Stadium | 60,127$^‡$ | J. T. King |
| 11 | 1970 Sun Bowl | L 17–9 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | Sun Bowl Stadium | 30,512 | Jim Carlen |
| 12 | 1972 Sun Bowl | L 32–28 | North Carolina Tar Heels | Sun Bowl Stadium | 31,312 | Jim Carlen |
| 13 | 1973 Gator Bowl | W 28–19 | Tennessee Volunteers | Gator Bowl Stadium | 62,109 | Jim Carlen |
| 14 | 1974 Peach Bowl | T 6–6 | Vanderbilt Commodores | Atlanta Stadium | 31,695 | Jim Carlen |
| 15 | 1976 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl | L 27–24 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | Houston Astrodome | 48,618 | Steve Sloan |
| 16 | 1977 Tangerine Bowl | L 40–17 | Florida State Seminoles | Orlando Stadium | 44,502$^‡$ | Steve Sloan |
| 17 | 1986 Independence Bowl | L 20–17 | Ole Miss Rebels | Independence Stadium | 46,369 | Spike Dykes |
| 18 | 1989 All-American Bowl | W 49–21 | Duke Blue Devils | Legion Field | 47,750 | Spike Dykes |
| 19 | 1993 John Hancock Bowl | L 41–10 | Oklahoma Sooners | Sun Bowl Stadium | 43,848 | Spike Dykes |
| 20 | 1995 Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic | L 55–14 | USC Trojans | Cotton Bowl | 70,218 | Spike Dykes |
| 21 | 1995 Weiser Lock Copper Bowl | W 55–41 | Air Force Falcons | Arizona Stadium | 41,004 | Spike Dykes |
| 22 | 1996 Builders Square Alamo Bowl | L 27–0 | Iowa Hawkeyes | Alamodome | 55,677 | Spike Dykes |
| 23 | 1998 Sanford Independence Bowl | L 35–18 | Ole Miss Rebels | Independence Stadium | 46,862 | Spike Dykes |
| 24 | 2000 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl | L 40–27 | East Carolina Pirates | Reliant Astrodome | 33,899 | Mike Leach |
| 25 | 2001 Sylvania Alamo Bowl | L 19–16 | Iowa Hawkeyes | Alamodome | 65,232 | Mike Leach |
| 26 | 2002 Mazda Tangerine Bowl | W 55–15 | Clemson Tigers | Florida Citrus Bowl | 21,689 | Mike Leach |
| 27 | 2003 Houston Bowl | W 38–14 | Navy Midshipmen | Reliant Stadium | 51,068$^†$ | Mike Leach |
| 28 | 2004 Pacific Life Holiday Bowl | W 45–31 | California Golden Bears | Qualcomm Stadium | 66,222$^†$ | Mike Leach |
| 29 | 2006 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic | Vacated by Alabama 13–10 | Alabama Crimson Tide | Cotton Bowl | 74,222 | Mike Leach |
| 30 | 2006 Insight Bowl | W 44–41$^{(OT)}$ | Minnesota Golden Gophers | Sun Devil Stadium | 48,391 | Mike Leach |
| 31 | 2008 Konica Minolta Gator Bowl | W 31–28 | Virginia Cavaliers | Jacksonville Municipal Stadium | 60,243 | Mike Leach |
| 32 | 2009 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic | L 47–34 | Ole Miss Rebels | Cotton Bowl | 88,175$^†$ | Mike Leach |
| 33 | 2010 Valero Alamo Bowl | W 41–31 | Michigan State Spartans | Alamodome | 64,757 | Ruffin McNeill |
| 34 | 2011 TicketCity Bowl | W 45–38 | Northwestern Wildcats | Cotton Bowl | 40,121$^†$ | Tommy Tuberville |
| 35 | 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas | W 34–31 | Minnesota Golden Gophers | Reliant Stadium | 50,386 | Chris Thomsen |
| 36 | 2013 National University Holiday Bowl | W 37–23 | Arizona State Sun Devils | Qualcomm Stadium | 52,930 | Kliff Kingsbury |
| 37 | 2015 Texas Bowl | Vacated by LSU 56–27 | LSU Tigers | NRG Stadium | 71,054 | Kliff Kingsbury |
| 38 | 2017 Birmingham Bowl | L 38–34 | South Florida Bulls | Legion Field | 28,623 | Kliff Kingsbury |
| 39 | 2021 Liberty Bowl | W 34–7 | Mississippi State Bulldogs | Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium | 48,615 | Sonny Cumbie |
| 40 | 2022 Texas Bowl | W 42–25 | Ole Miss Rebels | NRG Stadium | 53,251 | Joey McGuire |
| 41 | 2023 Independence Bowl | W 34–14 | California Golden Bears | Independence Stadium | 33,071 | Joey McGuire |
| General # Number of bowl games † Bowl game record attendance ‡ Former bowl game record attendance Results W Win L Loss T Tie |||||||