9 of the 12
Texas Tech games this season have closed above 80 points.
9 of the 12
Texas Tech games this year closed above 80 points, and it's the 15th total in all of college football above 80 + points this season.
The closing totals for
Texas Tech games this season are now: 86.5, 80, 82.5, 78.5, 68, 82, 85.5, 87, 85.5, 87.5.
Here are the totals for
Texas Tech games this season: 86.5, 80, 82.5, 78.5, 68, 82, 85.5, 87, 85.5, 87.5, 76.
The Sooners allowed three touchdown drives of 69 yards or more to start
the Texas Tech game, then seven points in the Red Raiders» final nine possessions.
The LOWEST total for
any Texas Tech game this season was 68 points.
Not exact matches
• Best Sense of Humor (New Coach Division):
Texas Tech's Spike Dykes says that when the Red Raiders recruited junior linebacker Dal Watson, «he'd never lost two
games in a row in his life.
They averaged at least 7.4 yards per play in eight of 13
games and gained a patently absurd 854 yards in 76 snaps against
Texas Tech.
And between the
Texas and Florida losses, Oklahoma put together maybe the most dominant run of offense since Army's in 1945: Despite facing five teams that finished with at least eight wins (including 11 - 2
Texas Tech and 10 - 4 Missouri), OU averaged 60 points per
game over a seven -
game span.
Texas Tech stuck with their inside
game, as their motion and off - ball cutting set up some easy baskets.
The leader in receptions, Danny Amendola, went undrafted out of
Texas Tech and played in just one
game last season due to injury.
Texas averaged 42 points per
game and fell only to a great
Texas Tech team via last - second TD.
(
Game of the Week: West Virginia at
Texas Tech)
TCU defensive end Stansly Maponga will not play in the Horned Frogs»
game vs. the
Texas Tech Red Raiders on Saturday, according to TCU beat reporter Stefan Stevenson.
However, winning both home
games would get them to 32nd, which should be enough with an 18 - 12 record and 8 - 10 Big 12 mark, especially with good non-conference wins over Wichita State and USC and conference victories over Kansas and
Texas Tech.
The Bears host Oklahoma State and Kansas State and head to Arlington for a neutral - site
game against
Texas Tech.
Oh, and they are 13th in scoring defense (despite having faced Oklahoma, West Virginia and
Texas Tech), allowing just 17.1 points per
game.
Texas Tech Eight starters are gone from the SWC's top offense, and of the quarterback hopefuls, Sone Cavazos has the most experience: one junior varsity
game.
Other than that
game the upset to
Texas Tech was unacceptable.
Heading into the Longhorns»
game with
Texas Tech on Nov. 8, Williams needed a 200 - yard rushing effort to tie the NCAA record of five straight, set by Marcus Allen at Southern Cal in 1981 and matched by Barry Sanders at Oklahoma State in» 88.
Marcus Smart has been suspended three
games for pushing
Texas Tech superfan, Jeff Orr, late in the second half of Saturday's...
The low point came last October in Lubbock, when the Sooners barely survived
Texas Tech in a 66 — 59 shootout that set the record for most total yards in an FBS
game that didn't go into overtime.
The
game's leading rusher was indeed Ricky Williams — of
Texas Tech.
Granted, the biggest trenches - related Alabama story line at the moment has nothing to do with Virginia
Tech or
Texas A&M, but as it pertains to Saturday, the winner of this battle — Alabama's front five versus A&M's front seven — will determine whether the Tide can score enough points to win this
game.
SOS: 26) Thanks to an uninspiring closing run that featured consecutive losses to Baylor and Oklahoma State, close victories over
Texas Tech (in overtime) and Oklahoma (thanks to a second half comeback), and Saturday's loss to Kansas, the Longhorns need to win some
games in Kansas City to lock up a place.
Wilson took over as sole coordinator in 2006 after Long became head coach at San Diego State; in 2007, with a redshirt freshman quarterback named Sam Bradford, the Sooners averaged 42.3 points per
game and were in line for a national title shot before Bradford suffered a concussion against
Texas Tech and Mike Leach's Red Raiders scored an upset.
A couple of those do suck in terms of marquee value (
Texas Tech, Miami), and if you give Maryland a
game against TCU (by not losing to St. Bonaventure) then they do look better.
In Lubbock,
Texas this year, before a
game with
Texas Tech, Denton was missing when the team assembled in the hotel lobby.
But OU has played five
games against teams with top - 25 rushing rankings (Ohio State,
Texas Tech, WVU, and TCU twice) and fared pretty well.
The Sooners made enough plays to top
Texas, 29 - 24, the week after but then got torched by Kansas State,
Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, and TCU (the first time) for an average of 7 yards per play and 34 points per
game.
The
Texas Tech / Oklahoma State total opened at 90 which is the highest we've ever tracked but it closed at 87.5 and the
game finished right in between which we'll explain below.
In Penn State's three losses, the Nittany Lions allowed a nightmarish 48 points per
game and 6.3 yards per play; they scored at least 39 points and lost twice, which is almost a
Texas Tech statistic.
The last six NCAAF
games with totals in the 80s have all involved
Texas Tech dating back to 2016.
Texas Tech has been involved in half of those
games (16 of 32 instances), with the Over going 10 - 6.
In
Tech's next three
games — all lopsided wins — the defense allowed Northwestern State past midfield one time, held Iowa State to 84 first - half yards and shut out
Texas A&M over the final three quarters.
can't pretend to have watched much
texas tech, other than the last few
games.
After the Cowboys» 48 - 45 win over
Texas Tech in 2007, Gundy wasn't happy with a column from The Oklahoman about one of his quarterbacks, Bobby Reid, who was benched for sophomore Zac Robinson before the
game.
At Lawrence both Cincinnati and Kansas State had no trouble beating
Texas Tech and Houston respectively on the first night, and their
game against each other appeared to revolve around Cincinnati's 6 - foot - 9 Center Paul Hogue, who resembles a large oak tree that has been granted the power to move — fast.
An Elite Eight
game against
Texas Tech was never particularly close, with the Wildcats coasting to a 12 - point victory.
The Jayhawks were blown out by a struggling Baylor team on the road and trailed
Texas Tech by a
game in the standings with six to play.
The Heisman Trophy may be
Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell's to lose, but the voters could still be swayed by what happens in a handful of
games with national - title implications
After two buzz - worthy (for very different reasons) Week 4 lead - in
games — TCU over
Texas Tech, Oklahoma State over
Texas — Big 12 play begins in earnest on Saturday.
But the two made the
Texas Tech - Oklahoma
game all sorts of fun.
Points per
game allowed by Iowa State in its last four contests, losses to
Texas Tech (42 - 35), Baylor (71 - 7), Oklahoma State (58 - 27) and Kansas State (41 - 7).
Things were already getting interesting after North
Texas also unleashed a late run — 21 - 0 to take down Rice — on Thursday night; after this weekend's surges / collapses, there's a three - way tie for the West lead with Rice, North
Texas, and Tulane all sitting at 4 - 1; meanwhile, UTSA is only a
game back at 3 - 2, and Louisiana
Tech is sitting there at 2 - 2.
A comment by
Texas Tech tailback Ricky Williams that appeared in The Lubbock Avalanche - Journal as the Red Raiders, winners of three consecutive
games, prepared to face Oklahoma.
Flowers held out in the recruiting process for the chance to play quarterback, and he should reward USF's faith in him by lighting up the scoreboard against a compliant
Texas Tech defense in his final college
game.
AP Ranking: No. 6 F / + Ranking: No. 9 Remaining Home Games (F / + Ranking in parentheses): Oklahoma (second), Kansas State (48th), Baylor (36th) Remaining Road / Neutral Games:
Texas (25th), Missouri (43rd),
Texas Tech (61st), Iowa State (89th) Conference Title
Game?
In one of this week's most heavily bet
games,
Texas Tech opened as 4.5 - point road underdogs at Pinnacle.
The
games with the highest totals to watch for this year are La
Tech / SMU (70),
Texas Tech / USF (68) and Auburn / UCF (67).