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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.
Texas Tech played its first intercollegiate football game on October 3, 1925. The contest, against McMurry University, ended in a controversial scoreless tie during the Panhandle South Plains Fair. [ 1] Tech's Elson Archibald seemed to have kicked a game-winning 20-yard field goal but the referee ruled that the clock had run out before the score.
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 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.
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 ...
The 2022 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University during the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Red Raiders played their home games at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas, and competed in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Joey McGuire. [2][3]
2009 (Texas Tech): 8-4, 5-3 Big 12 Mike Leach coaching at Washington State After two seasons from coaching, Leach was hired as the Washington State football coach on November 30, 2011.
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 as head coach, Mike Leach led Texas Tech to the program's first ...