2002 Liberty Bowl

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{{Infobox NCAA football yearly game

|game_name=Liberty Bowl

|subheader=44th Liberty Bowl

|date_game_played=December 31

|year_game_played=2002

|football_season=2002

|title_sponsor=AXA

|image=

|visitor_school=Texas Christian University

|visitor_name_short=TCU

|visitor_nickname=Horned Frogs

|visitor_record=9–2

|visitor_rank_AP=

|visitor_rank_coaches=

|visitor_rank_BCS=

|visitor_coach=Gary Patterson

|visitor_conference=C-USA

|visitor_1q=0

|visitor_2q=7

|visitor_3q=0

|visitor_4q=10

|Visitor Total=17

|home_school=Colorado State University

|home_name_short=Colorado State

|home_nickname=Rams

|home_record=10–3

|home_rank_AP=23

|home_rank_coaches=21

|home_rank_BCS=NR

|home_coach=Sonny Lubick

|home_conference=Mountain West

|home_1q=0

|home_2q=0

|home_3q=3

|home_4q=0

|Home Total=3

|type=bg

|stadium=Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium

|city=Memphis, Tennessee

|MVP=LaTarence Dunbar (WR, TCU)

|odds= Colorado State by 3

|anthem=

|referee= Dennis Hennigan (Big East)

|halftime=

|attendance=55,207{{cite web|title=Results/Attendance |url=http://www.libertybowl.org/history/resultsattendance |publisher=AutoZone Liberty Bowl |access-date=December 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122173830/http://www.libertybowl.org/history/resultsattendance |archive-date=November 22, 2012 }}

|us_network=ESPN

|us_announcers=Jeff Hullinger, Todd Christensen, Stacy Paetz

|intl_network=

|intl_announcers=

}}

The 2002 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game played on December 31, 2002, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The 44th edition of the Liberty Bowl matched the TCU Horned Frogs and the Colorado State Rams. The game was sponsored by the Axa Equitable Life Insurance Company and was branded as the AXA Liberty Bowl. TCU won, 17–3; the game was TCU's 500th victory in program history.{{cite web|title=TCU controls from get-go vs. Colorado State|url=http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=223650036|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024210709/http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=223650036|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 24, 2012|publisher=ESPN.com|access-date=December 2, 2002}}