2015 Texas Bowl, Texas Tech vs. LSU: Date, time, location and more

The AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl, which was created as the replacement for the defunct Houston Bowl, pits the Big 12 against the SEC and is set for its 10th matchup.

Previously rotating through multiple conferences and then holding an annual tie-in for the Big Ten, the SEC stepped in to fill the void and dominated the Big 12 in the first-edition of the two conferences battling at NRG Stadium. Arkansas beat up on Texas, 31-7, in front of more than 70,000 fans.

The game was without a title sponsor for the first five games of its existence before it became the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas in 2011 and 2012. After one year of being simply known as the Texas Bowl again, it became the AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl in 2014 and will remain as such for a second-straight year.

Here is everything you need to know to get ready for this year’s AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl:

Date and time: Tues., Dec. 29, 9 p.m. ET

TV channel: ESPN

Location: Houston, Texas

Stadium: NRG Stadium, 71,054

Last year’s score: Arkansas 31, Texas 7

Last year’s attendance: 71,115

Last year’s TV rating: 3.4

Last year’s payout for each school: $3 million

Team with the most all-time appearances: Minnesota, 2

Team with the most all-time wins: Nine teams, 1

Want offense? You’re going to want to watch Texas Tech’s bowl game. The Red Raiders are sure to provide points, whether with their pyrotechnic offense or their thoroughly permeable defense.

Kliff Kingsbury’s bunch have scored 559 points on the season, and their 46.6 points per game are behind only Baylor for the national lead. But the Red Raiders have also given up 511 points, making them the first team since East Carolina in 2010 to give up 500 points in the regular season and make a bowl. Their 42.6 points per game allowed slots them in the bottom 10 nationally, and the lowest-scoring game featuring Texas Tech in 2015 still featured 50 points; the highest-scoring one, a matchup with Oklahoma State, yielded an incredible 123.

Quarterback Pat Mahomes has thrown for 4,283 yards and 32 touchdowns in 2015, but given that Tech’s defense has given up more than 3,200 yards both on the ground and through the air, any stats by Red Raiders are more impressively necessary than impressive in their own right.

Last bowl game: 2013 Holiday Bowl (37-23 win over Arizona State)

All-time bowl record: 14-21-1

Head coach’s bowl record: Kliff Kingsbury is 1-0 in bowl games, having led Texas Tech to that win in the 2013 Holiday Bowl.

As October came to a close, LSU sat at 7-0. They led the SEC West and ranked second in the College Football Playoff rankings. By Thanksgiving, the Tigers had lost three in a row for the first time this century, had fallen out the top 25 and boosters and university officials were having serious discussions about the future of long-time head coach Les Miles.

The Tigers rallied to take down Texas A&M and carried their head coach off the field, followed by a brief announcement that he’d be staying as head coach. Now the program has to pick up the pieces, starting with a bowl matchup.

On offense, it begins and ends with superstar tailback Leonard Fournette, who rushed for a school-record 1,741 yards this season and appeared to have the lead in the Heisman Trophy race before the late-season slide. Quarterback Brandon Harris will be looking to rebound from a rough final month of the season. With one of the youngest rosters in the country, a bowl win could help set the stage for a better 2016.

Last Bowl Game: 2014 Music City Bowl (lost 31-28 to Notre Dame)

All-time Bowl Record: 23-22-1

Head Coach’s Bowl Record: Les Miles is 7-6 overall in bowls. He is 6-4 at LSU and was 1-2 at Oklahoma State.