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Alamo Bowl

The Alamo Bowl is a major post-season United States college football bowl game played annually since 1993 in the 65,000-seat Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. It usually matches the fourth-choice (not necessarily fourth-place) teams from the Big Ten Conference and the Big Twelve Conference.

The game was previously known as the Builders Square Alamo Bowl (1993-1998), the Sylvania Alamo Bowl (1999-2001) and is currently known as the MasterCard Alamo Bowl (2002-present).

There was also a bowl game called the Alamo Bowl played once, on January 4, 1947. Hardin Simmons defeated Denver 20-0.

Previous results

Date Played Winning Team Losing Team
December 31, 1993 California 37 Iowa 3
December 31, 1994 Washington State 10 Baylor 3
December 28, 1995 Texas A&M 22 Michigan 20
December 29, 1996 Iowa 27 Texas Tech 0
December 30, 1997 Purdue 33 Oklahoma State 20
December 29, 1998 Purdue 37 Kansas State 34
December 28, 1999 Penn State 24 Texas A&M 0
December 30, 2000 Nebraska 66 Northwestern 17
December 29, 2001 Iowa 19 Texas Tech 16
December 28, 2002 Wisconsin 31 Colorado 28
December 29, 2003 Nebraska 17 Michigan State 3
December 29, 2004 Ohio State 33 Oklahoma State 7

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