2009 Armed Forces Bowl

2009 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl
Houston Cougars Air Force Falcons (10–3) (7–5) 20 47 Head coach:  Kevin Sumlin Head coach:  Troy Calhoun AP Coaches BCS NR 25 NR AP Coaches BCS NR NR NR
1 2 3 4 Total Houston 0 6 14 0 20 Air Force 14 10 10 13 47
Date	December 31, 2009
Season	2009
Stadium	Amon G. Carter Stadium
Location	Fort Worth, Texas
MVP	Asher Clark (Air Force) Tyron Carrier (Houston)
Referee	Scott McElwee (MAC)
Attendance	41,414
Payout	US$750,000 per team
United States TV coverage
Network	ESPN
Announcers	Dave Lamont J.C. Pearson Cara Capuano
Armed Forces Bowl  < 2008  2010 >

The 2009 Armed Forces Bowl was the seventh edition of the college football bowl game, and was played at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. The game started at 12:00 PM US EST on Thursday, December 31, 2009. The game was telecast on ESPN and matched the Houston Cougars of Conference USA and the Air Force Falcons of the Mountain West Conference. The game earned a 1.6 rating.

This was the second year in a row that the two teams finished 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 played 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 also made their third appearance in the bowl game. The only other meeting between the two schools was in 2008 when 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.

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