The 1988 Eagle Aloha Bowl was a college football bowl game, the fourth of seventeen in the bowl season of the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season.
The game matched the #14 Houston Cougars of the Southwest Conference against the #18 Washington State Cougars of the Pacific-10 Conference.
Underdog Washington State scored all of its points in the second quarter and forced a last-second Houston turnover in notching a 24–22 win on Christmas Day.
This was the final game for head coach Dennis Erickson at WSU; he left for the University of Miami in March.
[6][7][8] Washington State climbed up to sixteenth in the final AP poll, and Houston dropped to eighteenth.