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Texas Tech has played its home games at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas since 1947. [2] Texas Tech (then known as Texas Technological College) fielded its first intercollegiate football team during the 1925 season. The team was known as the "Matadors" from 1925 to 1936, a name suggested by the wife of E. Y. Freeland, the first football ...
The Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, representing Texas Tech University, has had 155 players drafted into the National Football League (NFL) since the league began holding drafts in 1936. [1] A 1 ] This includes nine players taken in the first round and one overall number one pick , Dave Parks in the 1964 NFL draft . [ 4 ]
Playing in a driving rainstorm, Texas Tech punted 39 times, while their opponent, Centenary punted 38 times. The combined punt total of 77 is also an unbroken NCAA record. [9] Texas Tech's acceptance into the Southwest Conference headlines the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 1956. The next two coaches after Cawthon each held the position for a decade.
The Texas A&M–Texas Tech football rivalry has experienced multiple altercations off the playing field between coaches, players and fans. [93] Since both teams joined the Big 12 Conference in 1996, Texas Tech has won 10, while Texas A&M has won 6, of these last 16 meetings.
A play during the 1939 Cotton Bowl Classic between Texas Tech and St. Mary's. The Texas Tech Red Raiders football team has appeared in 41 post-season bowl games since the team's inaugural season in 1925. Texas Tech's rich bowl tradition ranks 20th in all-time bowl appearances and has set many bowl game attendance records. The Red Raiders have ...
Start time: 2:30 p.m. The Texas Tech football team takes on Oklahoma State at 2:30 p.m. from Boone Pickens Stadium. ... More: Now is not the time for Texas Tech football to play for 2025 ...
The 2004 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Big 12 Conference during the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season.In their fifth season under head coach Mike Leach, the Red Raiders compiled an overall record of 8–4 record with a mark of 5–3 in conference play, finished in a tie for third place in Southern Division of the Big 12, defeated ...
Texas Tech rugby plays in Division 1-A in the Allied Rugby Conference, a conference composed primarily of schools from the Big 12 South, against its traditional rivals such as Texas and Texas A&M. For the 2011–12 year, Texas Tech had also fielded a side to play in Division 2, where they won the Texas championship and qualified for the ...