The 26th Annual BRUCE BOLT College Classic takes place Feb. 27–March 1, 2026, at Daikin Park in Houston, featuring a top-tier field: Texas, Coastal Carolina, UTSA, Ole Miss, Baylor, and Ohio State. The nine-game tournament is televised on Astros.com.
If you don’t have Space City Home Network (like me) you can stream the games on the Astros YouTube Channel (not YouTubeTV) albeit with no play by play.
Right now Ohio State leads UTSA 2-1 in the top of the 2nd inning. Roof is open at Daikin Park!
Any idea why UH wasn’t invited?
You are obviously trolling……no one is that dumb.
They like to switch the teams up. I wouldn’t be surprised to see UH in it next year or the year after.
Not trolling, no.
It’s a valid question.
Makes sense. I always like to see us participate in that tournament.
This is absolutely wrong….they had a couple of people use their connections to get in 2024, otherwise they would still not have been in since 2019.
There are a couple of reasons for that and it has nothing to do with “switching teams up”….you are speaking from a place of ignorance….which is not your fault, but don’t act like you know the reason and pass it off as fact.
I know the director of the classic. They switch teams up. You sound angry again.
Can watch on Astros.com as well with broadcast audio, for free, no account needed.
I was wondering why I saw a Coastal Carolina fan at the rental car center last night.
Not the least bit interested in that tournament if we are not playing in it.
You don’t know anyone or what the reasons are….just stop….
Anyone that believes you is as gullible as it gets.
And how do you know that?
Why the contemptuous comments?
Ok, buddy! 
That’s just his thing on here. He knows more about baseball than anyone on the planet. You must know this.
This should be obvious but…
If we were a perennial regional making program with decent attendance, we’d be invited every year. Used to be the case.
But now we are a mediocre program with poor fan support. We haven’t been to a regional in eight years. So why would they invite us??? They invite us every few years as a courtesy only because we are local.
It used to be tied in with Houston Astro Fanfare or whatever they called it. Attendance has diminished ever since.
Pretty much in a nutshell. Reid Ryan originally made the call to switch UH and Rice out of the “every year rotation” and when I asked Steve about UH several years ago he said that UH is still in the plans but they wanted to try something different and it was basically get these bigger brands with big fanbases. But also more regional fanbases, which included teams like Texas State (Steve’s alma mater) who were never allowed in before.
Google is your friend…
Attendance for the Astros Foundation College Classic at Minute Maid Park (now Daikin Park) has shown a
strong upward trend, culminating in a tournament record in 2024. The event consistently draws large crowds due to the inclusion of high-profile, regional teams like LSU, Texas, and Texas A&M.
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Attendance Trends and Highlights
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Key Factors Driving Attendance
That is probably very true for tickets sold. As college baseball interest has soared in the last decade or so, corporate sponsorships have as well. But having attended the tournament for many years, even when the Coogs aren’t playing, the actual butts in seats might tell a different story.
Eyeballs are your friend. 
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