Academy Sports+Outdoors Texas Bowl

The teams were evenly matched. This makes for a great game.

Even though my team won, it was a great experience. Great food and beer on tap. If you enjoy college football and like one of the teams playing, then you need to go!

Reliant was a great venue for the Meinke Car Care Bowl. The game was very exciting. My seats in Section 306 were great and well worth the ticket price. As my son is a student at Tech, our entire family went making it a great family experience.

It really would have been much better if the announcer was a little more animated and if the booth would NOT have played the canned music doing timeouts, between plays, etc. and let the college bands do their part to play the music for their team and crowd. That is part of why they are there, give them a break.

Good venue to watch a game. However, they made us leave immeadiately after the game instead of post game tailgating. Sat high but the view was good. Definitely use the escalators if you go.

It was a good time. Nice venue. Nothing over the top. I thought the post game awards were rushed. Liked the music during time outs.

The game was great. The aggies finally won a bowl game. I was upset with reliant stadium. It didnt feel like a real game since they didnt have the team names in the endzone. I know the Texans played the next day but something could have been done. I am also upset with the music they played. An aggie game is a different experience when you can listen to the aggie band. Northwestern would have been able to experience the true aggie spirit. The aggie band always plays the war hymn after the third quarter but reliant stadium was playing music. The band played anyway but you couldnt hear it. We sang as loud as possible to drown out the music. This isnt an nfl game. Its a college game for a reason. The 12th man wasnt present because of these reasons.

Parking, although somewhat overpriced, was efficient with plenty of staff to guide. The stadium had quick security and ticketing-checking and we no problems getting to our seats. The seats had a good view of the field and jumbotron. Food and drink were heavily overpriced, so we skipped them and went to a steakhouse afterwards. The matchup between NU and TAMU turned out to be a good one, coming down to a field goal with less than two minutes left to really seal it. The excitement was a lot better than anticipated for a low-ranked bowl game The biggest disappointment was audio. Both NU and TAMU brought bands, but the stadium decided to play music over top of them between snaps and between quarters. Inexplicable. Everyone preferred the bands to the generic hip-hop being pumped out the speakers. There were over 20 000 empty seats... so you don't need to worry about buying tickets early for this bowl. Wait to see if you favorite team is playing!

This bowl game was nicely executed and easy to attend. My comments for improvement would be directed to those who work with the audio and video for the venue. With a college football game there is not a need to have music playing over the loudspeakers during the game- both college bands made an attempt to play and were often overshadowed by pre-recorded selections from a booth more in tune with a professional game compared to the environment of a college football game. Cut out the Ozzy and the other typical venue music and let us hear a real college game!

Great game, well organized, convenient parking. Will attend again next year!

My friends and I really enjoyed the game on New Years eve. Next year Meineke Car care bowl will need to invite SEC vs Big 12 teams. This could lead to a possible TAMU vs Texas game and help restore the rivalary in our great state. The Meineke Bowl could make big $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

The overall presentation of the game was very entertaining. It was good seeing the Texas football legends recognized prior to the game. My complaint is that this is a college bowl game with 2 universities with very good bands. For some reason, during every time out and break on the field, extremely loud music was played over the PA to fill the air space. Both bands played during the time, but they were almost inaudible. Save AC/DC for the Texans games on Sunday to fill the void. I prefer the Fighting Texas Aggie Band at a college game.

If this were a Professional football game, I could understand the playing of LOUD MUSIC over the public address (PA) system during a lull in play. However, both schools had their own bands present, and the PA would constantly drown the bands out. This was very irritating. Texas A&M's Fighting Texas Aggie Band plays the schools fight song between each quarter, however, this was impossible because of the LOUD PA blaring music. Be more considerate of each schools bands next time.

Wound have been 5 star event with a better Big 10 team.

Overall the bowl was awesome, but whoever operates the music should be fired. During tw game the music was too loud and often outplayed both of the teams bands. Sometimes when the bands were playing it seemed like the music was turned up louder. The music is fine for a Texans game but please let the bands provide the music for college games held in reliant in te future

Great game!!!! Aggies win in a great battle against Northwestern.

We thoroughly enjoyed the bowl, simply because the Aggies were participants. However, there were several things that really irritated me on Reliant's part. First, loud music was played nearly constantly. I understand their need to fill air space, especially during pro football commercial timeouts. However, both college bands were trying to play as well. Reliant could have suspended "Freeze Frame" or any number of other songs to allow the student bands to have a chance to shine. Also, we planned ahead so we wouldn't have to purchase any over-priced Reliant food. However, we purchased a foot-long hotdog during the 2nd quarter. The bun was so hard and stale, it might as well have been croutons! The selection at Reliant is very limited and I won' t ever buy food from there again.

It was fun to watch the Aggies play in this great stadium with lots of other Aggies. We came to the game early to attend the pre-game event outside. The music was good, but I couldn't believe they ran out of food at 9:45am for the 11am game. The vendor was unprepared for the crowd numbers. They should know that Aggies always turn out for our team! Parking was easy for the Green lot.

Great atmosphere and great facility! Would definetly return to watch a game in that great venue.

This is a college game, not a pro game - too much public address and piped-in music and not enough from the bands and the cheer/yell leaders. When the bands were playing out could to hear them over the music over the loud speakers. Do the leaders try to do any cheers or yells? I could to tell because of other noise.

Great game! Great teams! Great bands! (just wish the Reliant sound system would have stopped when college bands were playing) Perfect ending! Gig em Aggies!)

Overall great game. GO AGS! I think though that it needs to be reminded to Reliant Stadium the a bowl game is a college game, not the NFL. PLEASE TURN OFF THE MUSIC AND LET THE BANDS PLAY!!!!!

Great game, Stadium music in competetion with the two schools bands. Just noise. Should let the bands play uninterupted during game breaks.

Had a great seat for a great game in a great venue!

Good weather Great Stadium Bowl game event site was organized well Easy parking Inexpensive Good restaurants A good time overall

Everyone was friendly, courteous & most helpful. Everything was just right!

Fantastic college bowl game to take the family and friends to!

Good job putting on the bowl. Decent sized crowd, concession lines were good, no parking troubles. The weather was nice so I do wish they would have opened the roof - while having the roof closed helped the noise level, it also sterilized the setting. Only other item is too many ads blaring while the university's bands were trying to play. Honestly, I know ad revenue is important, but I would bet most would rather hear the bands and lower the volume of the ads. 11am kickoff sucked a bit & limited the stellar tailgating opportunities normally found at Reliant, but I recognize that was a TV network decision and not the bowl's choice. Glad the bands performed at halftime instead of goofy lip-synching 'stars' or jr.high drill teams like at some other bowls. I enjoy having a bowl in Houston - B12 & B10 is a good matchup regardless of records.

MY seat was great, and the usher most helpful, but I got a hamburger and fries from the ??Princes?? in the Lone Star Café behnd section 353 in the south end zone of level 3, and it was nothing but dried out meat, cheese, and a dry bun. There was nothing to put on it but mustard or onions in the cart. No tomatoes, lettuce or anything else. Last year I got a very good, full, burger at the same stand, but this year it was terrible. Please close this stand and replace it before the Super Bowl. This is embarrassing to Houston!!!! This is even worse than the wienie and bun hotdog at Kyle Field, but at least it had Slovak sausage! and I knew that was what I was getting!

Great stadium, great game, fascinating fans. All together an unforgettable experience.

Competitive game. NRG Stadium is comfortable but parking is terrible. Best part was watching the K-State and Aggie Bands.

Great venue for the bowl game. The staff was so friendly & there was ample security present.

Great seats to a good game. The $5 popcorn, nacho with a coke was a great deal. Getting in and out of the stadium was not a night mare. The only problem was my clutch was 1/2in to big and we had to return to the car to leave my clutch in the trunk. I needed my keys, ID, money, phone, lip stick, tickets and my medicine.

Back and forth! Very entertaining game! And K-State won!

Great stadium and the parking was organized. Fun atmosphere

This was a very good experience. The seats we had were nosebleed section and I was still able to watch the plays. Scoreboard was kind of weird. Replays looked great, there was a play by play and in house televised commentary which was nice to have. Parking was expensive 30 dollars if you wanted to park inside, but there was plenty of cheaper parking if you wanted to chance it outside NRG stadium. Kansas seemed wanting it more than A and M, even the home crowd looked somewhat in dream land unlike the crowds I have seen on TV during the regular season. Over all it was a a competitive game, that came down to the last minute. Thats the bottom line.

Great seats. Good fans from both teams around us. Great value.

No complaints here! The venue was fantastic. We sat at the very top, and had a wonderful view. I also really like that the screens are at the end zones of the field vs. over the field. Makes for a nice experience being able to focus all attention over the field. Staff was courteous in all locations visited - gates, concessions, selling at the seats.

I had my 16 year old grandson with me and the Texas Tech fan behind him kept pouring beer on him and his vocabulary consisted of three words which we can not list here. Also on the row in front of us there was a Texas tech fan that was smoking and at halftime we told a security guard in our section about him and he said he would check on it he continued smoking through the end of the third quarter when we left but we never saw the security guard during this quarter. Therefore for the reasons stated above, I doubt we would ever go to the Advocare Bowl again.

Football game was great. Seats were great. Getting tickets on line was simple. I have used another ticket company and I received tickets 3 weeks after the performance. I would recommend this company.

The game was great, the only complaint, and its a big one was that there was almost no LSU or Texas Tech merchandise, at the areas where it was sold, 90% of it was Houston Texans gear. I live in Houston, grew up here and love the Texans, but come on, it's a game between two great schools and they did not have much at all. We were sorely disappointed in that.

The traffic to the game is bad but the overall experience is great. I would go there again.

Unfortunately, there were two rows of LSU fans in Section 116 that ruined the event for everyone else in the proximity to them. They were stumbling drunk upon arrival, continued to drink rum that they smuggled into the building, repeatedly violated the "space" of those sitting in front of them by intentionally whacking an Aggie in the back of the head just because he was wearing an A&M hat with an Aggie logo on the back, continuously used loud profane language within earshot of women and children, were defiant and unapologetic when asked to refrain from profane language, and assaulted the Aggie by punching him in the head and ripping off his glasses and hat and throwing them several rows down in the crowd. When security kicked them out of the game and arrested the person who assaulted the Aggie, the remainder of the "group" threatened to escalate the situation all the while blaming the Aggie for their buddies' inappropriate behavior. The mother of the man arrested also assaulted the Aggie for turning in her son to the police. The Aggie showed great restraint by not reporting her as well. Oh well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. If there is an LSU fan out there that abhors this type of behavior, please respond. If not, we will have to assume that all LSU fans are of this ilk. By the way, the Aggie went to the game with the intent to root for the SEC. However, within a few minutes of the LSU fans' arrival at the game the Aggie's rooting swung over to Texas Tech. What a shame to LSU, the great State of Lousiana, and the SEC.

We were so excited to watch our team play, and enjoyed the game even though Tech lost to LSU. Our seats were high, as we expected, but we could see the field well. Our only disappointment was that we purchased a parking pass to the red lot next to the field. We arrived an hour and ten minutes before kickoff and were told the red parking lot was full. They sent us to the orange lot, which was farther from the stadium. They shouldn't sell more parking passes than they have parking places!

Great college atmosphere, we expected LSU to represent but to my surprise Texas Tech showed up with big numbers as well. I'm from Louisiana blaring from the sound system every time LSU scored probably aggregated the TX Tech fans but it come with the territory when you play the prize program from the State of Louisiana or Da Boot as us locals choose to refer it to. My seats were a better than I expected and although our section was mixed with both teams fans we enjoyed the spirit and enthusiasm that comes with the pageantry of a sold out college football bowl game!

The seats were great, the employees courteous and friendly. The game was awesome! The pretzels (both times) very stale, hard, and cold.

Poor Texas never got their offense or defense on track. The Razorbacks dominated every aspect of the game. The stadium was full and the atmosphere was electric! Both schools have great bands and they entertained the crowd before the game and at halftime. It was a very fun event, and I hope next year the Texas Bowl can attract teams with better records that 6 -6.

We wore Texas colors and ended up on the Arkansas side. However, the fans were friendly.

Great seats, great atmosphere prior to game...all went downhill fast after watching Tyrone Swoopes attempt to play QB

A total embarrassment for Texas. When we left in 4th Qtr with about 9 minutes left in the game, the Long Horns had a total game, combined offensive yardage of 29 yards! An unbelievable sleeper.

Game was fine. Facility was terrible. The parking lot seemed to be oversold and run very poorly. It took 30 minutes from gate entrance to a spot. Food availability in our area was minimal. Not the quality I am used to at NRG.

Great tickets, great fun, great win!! Razorbacks looked great beating Texas.

No reason for parking to cost $30. Ticket prices should not have gone up after teams were announced.

VERY UNORGANIZED PARKING and PREGAME EVENTS We prepaid for Blue Parking and the Parking Guides were all over the place VERY UNORGANIZED about getting to Lot etc THEY NEED HELP on this and once we got there ... couldn't figure out where the PREGAME HEB Budweiser Gallery Furniture etc We just went inside I live in Houston so convenient No travel costs butt very unorganized!

Nice event. Sold Out but parking and facility were not overwhelmed.

This event was well organized and never seemed extremely crowded. Other than the Horns loss, it was a fun trip.

Pregame events seemed disorganized. The Arkansas fans were rude.

Great Venue for the price. Sold out stadium College game was a lot more fun than pro!!

Truly disappointed with the University of Texas team and it's Keystone cops routine. Texas was over matched and a horrible choice for competition! SEC is far superior quality to this Texas team. But, Arkansas team was worthy of this bowl selection and their fans are great! Congratulations Razorback Nation

First of all the game started very late and combine that with rush hour traffic, it was a mess of a traffic jam attempting to enter the stadium's parking lots. Second, the parking fees were outrageously high. College sports and especially all of the postseason college football bowl games are geared towards the almighty dollar.

View from south end zone was very good. rail transport easily accessible to arena. I would go to another event at NRG.

Texas did not show up. Arkansas beat them bad......................................

The game was amazing the HOGS did great... the seats that yall had picked at random were fantastic. #HOGSCRAZY

As a Brit the thing I love about college sports is that the fan support for their teams is a long term thing, loaded with tradition and history, like soccer in Europe. This adds to the spectacle and atmosphere of the game, the team spirit walk, the bands which don't just play they entertain. The game was between two well matched teams and was gripping to the end, Reliant Stadium is a superb facility in which to watch football. Texfest was a little underwhelming but still enjoyable. Overall excellent.

I enjoyed the game. The seats were great. I was disappointed because the roof was open and it got cold towards the end of the game. I would rather that they had the roof closed. Also, I did not like the fact that they tried to move us to lower level. The seats that they gave us on the field level were much poorer than the higher seats that we had purchased

The game was great even though the attendance was low.

This game was so much fun! There was lots of school spirit on both sides. Reliant stadium was a great host with friendly and helpful staff. We had a lot of fun!

I BOUGHT MY TICKETS PRESALE IN ADVANCE BEFORE THE TEAMS WERE ANNOUNCED. IT WAS ADVERTISED AS BIG 12 TEAM VS BIG 10 TEAM. I WENT LAST YEAR WITH TEXAS TECH AND MINNESOTA AND LOVED IT. I LIVE IN TEXAS. WHY THE HECK WOULD I BUY A TICKET FOR SYRACUSE AND MINNESOTA. I TRIED TO GET A REFUND AND WAS TOLD ALL SALES WERE FINAL. I GAVE THE TICKETS AWAY. I DIDNT GO BUT LOST OUT ON THE MONEY. I WONT BUY AGAIN. THANK YOU.

The game was fun. We didn't have a dog in the fight but it was a good game between two well matched teams. It kept us in our seats until the last second. My only complaint was with Reliant; I paid good money to watch a game in climate controlled comfort. The day of the event I get a nice reminder and update stating the roof will be open. I know it's Houston and still around 50 degrees but that stadium is very breezy when the roof is open.

It's rare that I'm able to see my Orangemen play in person, so I jumped at the chance to attend the Texas Bowl this year with my family. The Texas Bowl not only provided a competitive matchup between two great schools, but it was held in a very fan friendly venue that provided for a memorable experience. The Bowl was very well run with short concession lines and friendly staff. Even if Syracuse is not playing next year, my family and I will attend .

When we bought tickets to this game, the event was promoted as a game featuring a team from the Big Twelve which is a conference that we follow. So, we bought a couple of pricey tickets. When the teams were announced there was no Big Twelve team. Why would a bowl game in Houston feature a Big East team? We went for the competition, but left by third quarter, regretting the expenditure.

Selection committee did great job of putting a solid football competition on the field. Those weren't Texas Bowl teams. They need more ties with our state if they want us to show up.

Great atmosphere, great game...really enjoyed it. Exciting teams that played with a lot of passion and the crowd was loud...the bands were talented...stadium had great seating all around...kudos!

Another close one that shouldn't have been. Way to go TEXAS TECH!

GREAT Day!!! I drove in front out of town and stayed 3 blocks away\u2026.with-in walking distances!!! Why pay for parking, put the cash towards another beer or t-shirt!!! Once inside the stadium the atmosphere kept building till game time. Both groups of fans where outstanding\u2026.rotting for their teams as true fans do. The game itself was a bit sloppy but it s a BOWL game. Both teams haven t played in over a month. Say that\u2026it was a good game and a great time. I spent the game meeting fans from both sides and partying with both groups!!! See you next year !!!!!

Great game, too many penalties though! Wreck em Tech!!

Great bowl game. Every year, this game is full of excitement. I've gotten to attend 4 of these games and they're always a lot of fun and something memorable. So glad to attend and can't wait for the 2013 edition!

We go to the Texas Bowl every year and it never disappoints!

The Music on the loud speakers kept playing music when the bands started. I know when the pros play that great because they don't have bands, but at a Bowl Game, we would like to here the BANDS battle it out while the game is being played. I love Football and have played in the past so I don't come just to here bands, but if they are their and playing!!!!

Needed to have the roof open. 50/80 rule was not followed. Not sure why. Temperature outside was 60 degrees. Favored Texas a&m. I was with my handicapped buddy. Parking and elevators were perfect. Excellent sandwiches. This venue is superior to Tampa bay stadium and to the cotton bowl in dallas, site of previous 2 bowl games for Northwestern

These were on the 50 yard line in the club section. These seats and location were awesome.

Good game. Well attended. Prices reasonable. We will attend in the future.

Loved the game. The venue was well organized. Easy to attend.

Everything was great and went smoothly...from parking, food, etc.

Enjoyed the game and the access in and out was great at Reliant. We really enjoyed the club seating and the variety of food and drinks. Really courteous personnel and knowledgeable about the venue. Good view, and the sound system was good without being too loud.

The Stadium was wonderful, clean, comfortable - the staff friendly and helpful. My only complaint was that the piped in music was piped in - WAY TOO MUCH! There were 2 college bands there - but the bowl committee seemed to drop the ball regarding coordinating their playing. The NW band seemed to always be playing - even when the Aggie Band was playing - the NW band had microphones, that did seem to be turned off when it was the Aggie Band's turn to play. My family all had various levels of headaches upon leaving the game due to the loud sound - it is one thing to have a loud crowd or loud band music - it is another altogether to have the cacaphony of sound. The bowl should be worked more like a college game, where there is a script and specific times for the different bands to play.