FBA 2018 Media Guide FLIP (2)

Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl
Designated team hotels:
SEC – Westin Galleria
Big 12 – Hyatt Regency
Designated media hotel:
Doubletree Greenway Plaza
Local airport: George Bush Intercontinental Airport; American, Delta, United,
US Airways, Spirit, Alaska Airlines, Frontier, Air Canada, AeroMexico, Air France,
British Airways
Houston Hobby Airport; Southwest, American, Delta, AirTran, JetBlue
Local tourism bureau: Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau, www.
visithoustontexas.com
Prominent area tourist attractions: NASA Space Center Houston, Battleship
Texas, San Jacinto Monument, Moody Gardens and Mansion, Houston Zoo,
Downtown Aquarium, Kemah Boardwalk
DIRECTIONS
>From main arrival airport to stadium:
From George Bush Intercontinental: Go south on I-59, merge and continue south on Hwy.
288, exit onto I-610 East, exit at Kirby St., and turn right onto Kirby, Reliant Stadium will be
on the right.
Other Trivia:
- In eight of the 12 years of its existence, the Texas Bowl has welcomed a homestate
team. Rutgers beat Kansas State 37-10 in 2006 in the inaugural game, and the
only other games that haven’t featured a Texas team came in 2009 when Navy beat
Missouri 35-13 and in 2013 when Syracuse beat Minnesota 21-17.
- In fact, two teams from the same state squared off in the bowl’s second game in
2007, when TCU beat the hometown Houston Cougars 20-13. That was the last bowl
game to match two teams from the same state until 2013 when Louisiana-Lafayette
beat Tulane in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.
Major Media in the area:
Houston Chronicle
KPRC-TV 2 (NBC)
KHOU-TV 11 (CBS)
KTRK-TV 13 (ABC)
KRIV-TV 26 (Fox)
KIAH-TV 39 (CW)
KXLN-TV 45 (Univision)
KTMD-TV 47 (Telemundo)
KILT-AM Sports Radio 610 KBME-AM SportsTalk 790
KGOW-AM SB Nation Radio 1560 97.5 FM ESPN
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