Tee Cotton I
Year: 2000
Site: Soileau-Landry Field
Score: Sacred Heart 24, Ville Platte 21
Note: The first time the traveling Vidrine Cup was presented to the winner, a trophy the Trojans win seven straight years.
Tee Cotton II
Year: 2001
Site: Ville Platte High Stadium
Score: Sacred Heart 33, Ville Platte 6
Note: A column appeared in the Opelousas Daily World about the game bringing the community together.
Tee Cotton III
Year: 2002
Site: Soileau-Landry Field
Score: Sacred Heart 26, Ville Platte 12
Note: LSU football legend Tommy Casanova serves as guest speaker for the first Tee Cotton Banquet and NFL Films develops feature for ESPN on the rivalry.
Tee Cotton IV
Year: 2003
Site: Ville Platte Stadium
Score: Sacred Heart 42, Ville Platte 6
Note: McNeese State University drum line performs at halftime of game. Game wins community award from United Way and Parade Magazine.
Tee Cotton V
Year: 2004
Site: Soileau-Landry Field
Score: Sacred Heart 38, Ville Platte 18
Note: Professional wrestler Ernie ‘Big Cat’ Ladd serves as guest speaker for banquet, Pope John Paul II gives Papal blessing to game.
Tee Cotton VI
Year: 2005
Site: Ville Platte High Stadium
Score: Sacred Heart 31, Ville Platte 30
Note: After a scoreless first half, game ended being a shootout and not decided until triple overtime. Los Angeles Dodger Danny Ardoin served as banquet guest speaker.
Tee Cotton VII
Year: 2006
Site: Soileau-Landry Field
Score: Sacred Heart 27, Ville Platte 6
Note: First Tee Cotton Bowl that was broadcasted on the Internet.
Tee Cotton VIII
Year: 2007
Site: Ville Platte High Stadium
Score: Ville Platte 48, Sacred Heart 14
Note: First community prayer service for the game, and first Tee Cotton Bowl prayer breakfast is held.
Tee Cotton IX
Year: 2008
Site: Soileau-Landry Field
Score: Ville Platte 34, Sacred Heart 27
Note: The first appearance of Joe Cahn, known as the ‘Tailgating Commissioner’ at the game, sky divers make an appearance, junior high teams play for first time for the Tee Cotton Bowl Thimble.
Tee Cotton X
Year: 2009
Site: Ville Platte High Stadium
Score: Ville Platte 41, Sacred Heart 12
Note: Tee Cotton Bowl coaches honored and get to meet Super Bowl winning coach Tony Dungy, Southern University’s drumline performed at halftime and Ville Platte High’s undefeated team of 1965 honored at halftime.
Tee Cotton XI
Year: 2010
Site: Soileau-Landry Field
Score: Ville Platte 32, Sacred Heart 18
Note: Former LSU star Tommy Casanova once again came to the banquet, as did the family of Ernie Ladd, the family of Dave Dixon, the founder of Superdome and there was a video message of NFL Films’ Steve Sabol.
Tee Cotton XII
Year: 2011
Site: Ville Platte High Stadium
Score: Ville Platte 34, Sacred Heart 26
Note: Super Bowl IV champion Frank Pitts did coin toss, and the game was the first time the game was broadcast in Cajun French on KVPI.
Tee Cotton XIII
Year: 2012
Site: Soileau-Landry Field
Score: Ville Platte 38, Sacred Heart 30
Note: The Bulldogs win in overtime to extend their winning streak in the series to six but it would be the final time the two schools would play the annual game.
Tee Cotton XIV
Year: 2017
Site: Ville Platte High Stadium
Score: Sacred Heart 40, Ville Platte 19
Note: After a four year hiatus, the Tee Cotton Bowl returned to the City of Ville Platte. At the Ville Platte High pep rally, Ville Platte Mayor Jennifer Vidrine escorted a live bulldog into the school’s gym and handed it over to new principal Melanie Miller. At the Trojans’ pep rally, Beau Lemoine came out dressed as a Tyrannosaurus Rex to show that everybody was wrong when they thought the game went away like the dinosaurs. The Trojans rushed for 159 yards on 36 carries and scored four touchdowns. JT Harper was named the game’s Most Valuable Player with his 18 rushes for 113 yards.
Tee Cotton XV
Year: 2018
Site: Soileau-Landry Field
Score: Sacred Heart 20, Ville Platte 7 Note: The Tee Cotton Bowl returned to Sacred Heart’s Soileau-Landry Field with much fanfare including the coin toss being conducted by Bishop Douglas Deshotel of the Diocese of Lafayette, who is an Evaneline Parish native. Once the game began, the Trojans controlled the tempo of the game by running 57 offensive plays with all but eight coming on the ground. Ville Platte High was not far behind calling 51 plays with 29 of them coming on the ground. The difference maker came when Wesley Launey returned a 63-yard punt setting up a touchdown from Alec Gotro.