HOUSTON – The 2021 Texas Bowl will be played on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022 in primetime at NRG Stadium in Houston.
The 15th edition of the game will air on ESPN and ESPN Radio, with a local radio broadcast on SportsRadio 610 (KILT-AM) and will once again feature a matchup of Big 12 and SEC schools as it has since 2014. An announcement on the game time will be made on a later date.
The Texas Bowl is one of the top-five most attended bowl games in the country, and the most attended non-New Year's Six game since 2016, trailing only the Rose, Peach, Fiesta and Orange Bowls.
The Texas Bowl and its sister event, the Texas Kickoff, have grown to become two of the most popular annual college football games in the country, combining to create an economic impact of close to $80 million annually for the city of Houston while raising over $2 million in financial support and millions more in promotional support to DePelchin Children's Center, Houston's oldest children's charity and the bowl's official charitable beneficiary.
In 2019, the Texas Bowl featured the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Texas A&M Aggies, marking the sixth year of the Bowl's affiliation with the Big 12 and the SEC.
With an Aggies 24-21 victory over the Cowboys, then Texas A&M quarterback and current Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kellen Mond was named the 2019 Texas Bowl MVP.
Last year's Texas Bowl was scheduled to feature TCU and Arkansas but was cancelled due to the pandemic.
The Texas Bowl is one of 17 bowl games owned and operated by ESPN Events, a division of ESPN, and managed locally by Lone Star Sports & Entertainment.
Ticket information for the event will be shared in the near future. To be the first to get these updates and for more information around the game, fans can sign up for the Texas Bowl wait list here.
