[1] In each of its ten seasons, the game's selection committee extended an invitation to the highest-standing team from the Great American Conference (GAC) which did not qualify for the NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs.

[2] Initially, the opponent was an at-large team selected from either the Lone Star Conference (LSC) or the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA).

Starting in 2017, when teams from the GAC, MIAA, and LSC also became eligible for bids to the Heritage Bowl (played in Corsicana, Texas), the Texarkana game became a GAC-MIAA matchup.

[3][4] Despite these successes, on July 2, 2024, Texarkana (Arkansas) mayor Allen Brown announced that the game was being "retired" after a run of ten seasons.

Brown, who also served as bowl president, called it "disappointing" that the game was "not really supported by our local community."