Houston Bowl
Title: Houston Bowl
Subject: 2003 Houston Bowl, 2002 Houston Bowl, 2005 Houston Bowl, 2004 Houston Bowl, Texas Bowl
Collection: Defunct College Football Bowls, Houston Bowl
Houston Bowl (defunct)
EV1.net Houston Bowl
Previous stadiums
galleryfurniture.com (2000–01)
EV1.net (2002–05)
Former names
galleryfurniture.com Bowl (2000–01)
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 to 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.
Game results 2
MVPs 3
It 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 game management was turned over to the Texans, and the NFL Network changed the game's name to the Texas Bowl. While officially two separate games, it is considered that the 2006 Texas Bowl is the successor to the 2005 Houston Bowl.
Date Played
Winning Team
Losing Team
December 27, 2000 East Carolina 40 Texas Tech 27 notes
December 28, 2001 Texas A&M 28 TCU 9 notes
December 27, 2002 Oklahoma State 33 Southern Miss 23 notes
December 30, 2003 Texas Tech 38 Navy 14 notes
December 29, 2004 Colorado 33 UTEP 28 notes
December 30, 2005 TCU 27 Iowa State 24 notes
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
History of the Houston Bowl
NCAA Division I FBS bowl games
Other bowl games
Famous Idaho Potato
Heart of Dallas
TaxSlayer
Future bowl games
Austin Bowl
Medal of Honor Bowl
East–West Shrine Game
NFLPA Collegiate Bowl
Senior Bowl
Defunct college football bowls
University of Houston, Texas, Texas Medical Center, The Woodlands, Texas, Uptown Houston
Texas Bowl
NFL Network, Houston, Texas, Big 12 Conference, Mountain West Conference
Indianapolis, College football, Indiana, Canada, College baseball
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, College Football Playoff, Canada, American football, College baseball
National Football League, Indianapolis Colts, Houston, Texas, Tennessee Titans
2003 Houston Bowl
Houston Bowl, Navy Midshipmen football, Espn, College football, 2000 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl
Houston, Texas, Houston Bowl, 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season, Espn
Houston Bowl, 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season, Texas, Espn, College football