TCU BOWL NOTABLES
TCU BOWL HISTORY • Included below is a look at the Frogs’ postseason history: 1936 Sugar Bowl - TCU 3, LSU 2 1937 Cotton Bowl - TCU 16, Marquette 6 1939 Sugar Bowl - TCU 15, Carnegie Tech 7 1942 Orange Bowl - Georgia 40, TCU 26 1945 Cotton Bowl - Oklahoma A&M 34, TCU 0 1948 Delta Bowl - Mississippi 13, TCU 9 1952 Cotton Bowl - Kentucky 20, TCU 7 1956 Cotton Bowl - Mississippi 14, TCU 13 1957 Cotton Bowl - TCU 28, Syracuse 27 1959 Cotton Bowl - TCU 0, Air Force 0 1959 Bluebonnet Bowl - Clemson 23, TCU 7 1965 Sun Bowl - Texas Western 13, TCU 12 1984 Bluebonnet Bowl - West Virginia 31, TCU 14 1994 Independence Bowl - Virginia 20, TCU 10 1998 Sun Bowl - TCU 28, USC 19 1999 Mobile Alabama Bowl - TCU 28, East Carolina 14 2000 Mobile Alabama Bowl - Southern Miss 28, TCU 21 2001 galleryfurniture.com Bowl - Texas A&M 28, TCU 9 2002 AXA Liberty Bowl - TCU 17, Colorado State 3 2003 PlainsCapital Fort Worth Bowl - Boise State 34, TCU 31 2005 Houston Bowl - TCU 27, Iowa State 24 2006 Poinsettia Bowl - TCU 37, Northern Illinois 7 2007 Texas Bowl - TCU 20, Houston 13 2008 Poinsettia Bowl - TCU 17, Boise State 16 2009 Fiesta Bowl - Boise State 17, TCU 10 BOWLS BY THE APPEARANCE • TCU has played in the following bowl games: Cotton (6) Bluebonnet (2) Mobile Alabama (2) Poinsettia (2) Sugar (2) Sun (2) Rose (1) Delta (1) Fiesta (1) Fort Worth (1) galleryfurniture.com (1) Houston (1) Independence (1) Liberty (1) Orange (1) Texas (1)
SUPER SITES • TCU is playing its sixth straight bowl game in a facility that has hosted a Super Bowl: Year Bowl Stadium Super Bowls Hosted 2005 Houston Reliant XXXVIII 2006 Poinsettia Qualcomm XXII, XXXII, XXXVII 2007 Texas Reliant XXXVIII 2008 Poinsettia Qualcomm XXII, XXXII, XXXVII 2009 Fiesta University of Phoenix XLII 2010 Rose Rose Bowl XXVII, XXI, XVII, XIV, XI • XXXVIII - Carolina vs. New England, 2004 • XXII - Denver vs. Washington, 1988 • XXXII - Denver vs. Green Bay, 1998 • XXXVII - Oakland vs. Tampa Bay, 2003 • XLII - New England vs. New York Giants, 2008 • XXVII - Buffalo vs. Dallas, 1993 • XXI - Denver vs. New York Giants, 1987 • XVII - Miami vs. Washington, 1983 • XIV - Los Angeles vs. Pittsburgh, 1980 • XI - Minnesota vs. Oakland, 1977
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• This year’s Rose Bowl will mark TCU’s ninth contest in a 69-game stretch in a stadium that has hosted a Super Bowl. • During that span, the Frogs are a combined 7-1. TCU is 4-0 at Qualcomm Stadium, 2-0 at Reliant Stadium, 1-0 at Stanford Stadium and at 0-1 University of Phoenix Stadium. GOING BOWLING • Since Gary Patterson arrived at TCU, the Frogs are one of 14 teams to play in at least 12 bowl games the last 13 seasons: 13 -Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech 12 -TCU, Boston College, Miami (Fla.), Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Southern Miss, Texas, Wisconsin NEW YEAR’S DAY • TCU is playing on Jan. 1 for the first time since a scoreless tie with Air Force in the 1959 Cotton Bowl. • The Frogs played on Jan. 4 in last year’s Fiesta Bowl. MVP, MVP • TCU quarterback Andy Dalton is a two-time bowl game Most Valuable Player. • Dalton was 22-of-35 for 197 yards while rushing for 84 yards in a 17-16 Poinsettia Bowl victory over Boise State in 2008. • As a redshirt freshman in 2007, Dalton received MVP honors in a 20-13 Texas Bowl win over Houston. He completed 21-of-30 passes for 249 yards. He added 17 yards rushing, including a 3-yard scoring run for the Frogs’ first points of the game.
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