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Revision as of 06:04, 28 December 2009
The 2009 Armed Forces Bowl will be the seventh edition of the college football bowl game, and will be played at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. The game is scheduled to start at 12:00 PM US EST on Thursday, December 31, 2009. The game will be telecast on ESPN and will match the Houston Cougars of Conference USA and the Air Force Falcons of the Mountain West Conference.
This is the second year in a row, that the two teams will finish their seasons against each other in the bowl game played on the TCU campus. The Cougars, the Conference USA runner-up after losing to East Carolina in the championship game, beat Air Force 34-28 last year for their first bowl victory since 1980. Air Force is in the Armed Forces Bowl for the third straight season. The Falcons lost 42-36 to California in the 2007 game, which was then their first bowl appearance since 2002. Each team is also making their third appearance in the bowl game. The only other meeting between the two schools was also in 2008 as The Falcons defeated Houston 31-28 in a game played in front of just 2,546 people at Gerald J. Ford Stadium on the campus of SMU in Dallas, Texas. The game was originally to be a home game for the Cougars but due to Hurricane Ike the game was moved.
The game will mark the first time that Houston has entered a bowl game with a national ranking in the Coaches Poll since the 1979 season.
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