Houston Bowl

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The Houston Bowl is a now-defunct NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game that was played annually in Houston, Texas from 2000-2005. The game was originally known as the galleryfurniture.com Bowl (for the website of the Houston furniture chain of the same name) 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 Astrodome housed the galleryfurniture.com Bowl. And, in 2002, the game moved to Reliant Stadium, the home of the NFL's Houston Texans. 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 Bowl was played in Houston. As of 2008, the Texas Bowl is played in Houston.


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[edit] Previous results

Date Played Winning Team Losing Team
December 27, 2000 East Carolina 40 Texas Tech 27
December 28, 2001 Texas A&M 28 Texas Christian 9
December 27, 2002 Oklahoma State 33 Southern Miss 23
December 30, 2003 Texas Tech 38 Navy 14
December 29, 2004 Colorado 33 Texas-El Paso 28
December 30, 2005 Texas Christian 27 Iowa State 24

[edit] MVPs

Date played MVPs Team Position
December 27, 2000 David Garrard East Carolina QB
Bernard Williams East Carolina DT
December 28, 2001 Byron Jones Texas A&M DB
Joe Weber Texas A&M RB
December 27, 2002 Rashaun Woods Oklahoma State WR
Kevin Williams Oklahoma State DT
December 30, 2003 B.J. Symons Texas Tech QB
Adell Duckett Texas Tech DL
December 29, 2004 Joel Klatt Colorado QB
Tom Hubbard Colorado S
December 31, 2005 Jeff Ballard TCU QB
Jason Berryman Iowa State DL

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