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From 1926 through 1955, TCU and Texas Tech frequently played as non-conference opponents. In 1956, Texas Tech joined the Southwest Conference (SWC), and the teams played annually as conference opponents, except in 1957 (as Texas Tech was not a full member of the SWC until 1960), until the conference's dissolution in 1995.
The Texas–Texas Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry [2] between the Texas Longhorns and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. The winner of this gauntlet receives the other university's chancellor's sterling silver boot spurs which is what the name of the rivalry is named after.
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 coach, to reflect the influence of the Spanish Renaissance architecture on campus.
TCU–Texas Tech: Saddle Trophy TCU: Texas Tech: 1926 2024 67 Techmo Bowl: Georgia Tech: Virginia Tech: 1990 2024 20 Tennessee–Vanderbilt: Tennessee: Vanderbilt: 1892 2024 119 Texas–Texas Tech: Chancellor's Spurs Texas: Texas Tech: 1928 2023 73 Texas A&M–Texas Tech: Texas A&M: Texas Tech: 1927 2011 70 Textile Bowl: Textile Bowl Clemson ...
Sammy Baugh Trophy (2016) Second-team All-Big 12 ; Texas Tech Ring of Honor; NFL records. Career passing yards per game: 288.9 [a] Passing touchdowns in a single postseason: 11 (tied) [2] Total yards by a quarterback in a season: 5,614 [3] NCAA (FBS) records. Most offensive yards in a game: 819; Most passing yards in a game: 734 (tied) [b]
Texas Tech's athletic teams are known as the Red Raiders with the exception of the women's basketball team, which is known as the Lady Raiders. Texas Tech competes in NCAA Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) and is a member of the Big 12 Conference. From 1932 until 1956, the university belonged to the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
Texas Tech University and Texas Christian University (TCU) – one of the biggest rivalries in the Big 12. Both athletic directors have stated that they were in a rivalry. Every year these two teams play for the Saddle Trophy. Texas Tech and TCU are definitely each others biggest rivals making this one of the most prolific rivalries in college ...
Texas Tech athletics teams compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference. From 1932 until 1956, the university belonged to the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Texas Tech was admitted to the Southwest Conference on May 12, 1956.