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Texas Tech announced their 2015 football schedule on November 19, 2014. The 2015 schedule consisted of 6 home, 5 away games, and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Red Raiders hosted Big 12 foes Iowa State , Kansas State , Oklahoma State , and TCU and traveled to Kansas , Oklahoma , Texas , and West Virginia .
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 ...
Texas Tech has had 17 head coaches, and three-interim head coaches. Five coaches have won conference championships with the Red Raiders: Pete Cawthon, Dell Morgan, DeWitt Weaver, Steve Sloan, and Spike Dykes. Mike Leach is the only head Texas Tech football coach to win a division title. Dykes is the all-time leader in games and years coached ...
Texas Tech named Matt Wells as the Head Football Coach of the Red Raiders beginning with the 2019 season. Wells came to Texas Tech from Utah State, where he had been Head Football Coach for six seasons (2013-2018), compiling a 44–34 record including two bowl wins, one division championship, and two 10-win seasons.
In 1960, Texas Tech was admitted to the Southwest Conference. The Red Raiders won two conference championships in 1976 and 1994, under head coaches Steve Sloan and Spike Dykes respectively. Texas Tech became a charter member in the South Division of the Big 12 Conference in 1996 when the Southwest Conference disbanded. During his ninth season ...
Texas Tech football players have made their mark in the Canadian Football League for years. Wide receiver Derrell Mitchell topped 12,000 career receiving yards in an 11-year career north of the ...
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 ...
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 ...