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About the Houston Bowl
The Texas Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game that has been held for the first time in 2006 in Houston, Texas. The bowl replaces the now-defunct Houston Bowl, which was played annually from 2000 to 2005. The first bowl game in Houston was the Bluebonnet Bowl, played from 1959 through 1987.
Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas is the home base for the Houston Texans, a professional NFL football team. It served as the host facility for Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004. The game saw the New England Patriots defeat the Carolina Panthers, 32-29, but the game was overshadowed by the controversial Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show.
Reliant Stadium is the first stadium in the NFL to have a retractable roof. The first game played was on August 24, 2002, as the Texans played the Miami Dolphins in their first preseason game. The first regular season game was played on September 8 of that year, where Texans defeated the Dallas Cowboys in a surprise upset.
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