The 2025 Alamo Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 30, 2025, at the Alamodome located in San Antonio, Texas. The 33rd annual Alamo Bowl game began at approximately 8:00 p.m. CST and aired on ESPN. The Alamo Bowl was one of the 2025âÂÂ26 bowl games concluding the 2025 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by Valero Energy, a company that produces petroleum-based fuels, and known as the Valero Alamo Bowl.
The TCU Horned Frogs from the Big 12 Conference defeated the USC Trojans from the Big Ten Conference in overtime, 30âÂÂ27.
Consistent with conference tie-ins, the game featured a team from the Big 12 Conference, TCU, and a legacy member of the Pac-12 Conference, USC, who competed in the Pac-12 through 2023 before departing for the Big Ten Conference.
TCU opened their season with three consecutive wins and were briefly ranked before losing to Arizona State. The Horned Frogs won three of their next four games and had a record of 6âÂÂ2 at the end of October. TCU lost two of their four games during November and entered the Alamo Bowl with an 8âÂÂ4 record.
USC compiled a 9âÂÂ3 record during the regular season and was ranked as high as 15th. Each of their losses came to other ranked teams: Illinois, Notre Dame, and Oregon. The Trojans entered the Alamo Bowl ranked 16th in each of the major polls.