The 1949 Raisin Bowl (December) was an American college football bowl game played on December 31, 1949 at Ratcliffe Stadium in Fresno, California.
The game pitted the San Jose State Spartans and the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
Texas Tech finished as champion of the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association for the third straight year and fourth in seven years (with no champion awarded from 1943–45).
[1][2] With the win, San Jose State had won nine games for the fourth straight season.
Texas Tech returned to a bowl game in 1952, which they won for their first ever win in school history.