Oklahoma State will play a familiar opponent – Texas A&M – in the Texas Bowl at 5:45 p.m. December 27 in NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Oklahoma State and Texas played each other every year as members of the Big 12 Conference from 1996-2011. The Cowboys won each of the final four meetings between the two schools before the Aggies joined the Southeastern Conference. Only once have the two teams met in a bowl game, with Texas A&M a 33-16 winner over OSU in the 1981 Independence Bowl.
“We’ve got a number of players on our team, I think it’s close to 65 right now, that are from the state of Texas, all the way down to the Houston area,” said OSU coach Mike Gundy.
This is the first time for OSU in the Texas Bowl but Texas A&M has played there twice, beating Northwestern 33-22 in 2011 and losing to Kansas State 33-28 in 2016.
OSU has gone to a bowl for 14 straight years – that’s the ninth longest bowl streak in Division 1.
The longest active bowl streaks:
- Virginia Tech – 28;
- Georgia – 23;
- Oklahoma – 21
- LSU – 20;
- Boise State – 18;
- Wisconsin – 18;
- Alabama – 16;
- Clemson – 15;
- Oklahoma State – 14;
- Texas A&M – 11