texas tech football

I'm a huge college football fan. Sure, it's my job to watch and cover the Texas Tech football team, but even before I had this job I was a huge Texas Tech fan. I grew up in Lubbock and attended dozens of Texas Tech football games and even more baseball games with some Dickey and Knight basketball games thrown in, but I didn't attend Texas Tech University. Shoul...

Texas Tech's season started with a bang when they dominated Murray State and the offense looked electric as they scored on nearly ten straight possessions to open the game. Texas Tech then looked fairly bad on offense for an entire game against Houston with three great drives getting you to overtime and two good overtimes to beat the Cougars...

This looked like the same injury that has ended or altered many careers, so many prayers and thoughts to Bryce Ramirez as he battles back from this one.

Two words: Bush league.

The Texas Tech offense started quickly against the University of Houston, getting the opening kickoff and working down the field to the red zone with ease. Once the Red Raiders got to the red zone, however, the offense seized up and the team had to settle for a short field goal. Tex...

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At LSU, the biggest playmaker gets number 7. At Baylor, the single-digit numbers are reserved for the best players on the team. Now, at Texas Tech, number 3 is a special jersey. Kobee Minor came into the offseason and retained the uniform number after proving himself to the new coaching staff...

Top 10 in the league, number one Big 12 Player.

Things have been changing in Lubbock over the last two years in regards to the energy in the city. First, Lubbock changed its ways by converting to the ERCOT grid and will begin to let Lubbock citizens choose their own energy providers. Then, Texas Tech traded a coach with moderate energy to the most energetic coach in the Big 12 and maybe the entire country...

He'll surprise people this season.

Dimitri Moore played for Joey McGuire at Cedar Hill before going to Vanderbilt as a freshman. He ended up transferring to Missouri State before finding his way back to Joey McGuire at Texas Tech. Krishon Merriweather was the leading tackler in the state of Missouri his senior season, but took the JUCO route out of high school...

If you run the same scenario 20,000 times, there is a chance that Texas Tech would end the season 5-7. The problem with the FPI predicting season totals is that the FPI is a fluid marker, if you win the first two games, you're FPI ranking improves and your percentages jump early...