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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]
The first football game between HBCU schools was played on December 27, 1892. On that day Johnson C. Smith defeated Livingstone College. As it was the only game played by HBCU schools that year, Johnson C. Smith's team could no doubt claim to be that season's HBCU national champions by default.
Texas Tech ended the regular season ranked #17. [34] Recently, the Red Raiders 2012 season resulted in a closing ITA ranking of 19. The Texas Tech tennis team won the Border Conference tennis championship in 1936, 1937, and 1950. The woman's team, led by Todd Petty, won the Big 12 Conference in 2012. [35]
The Texas Tech football team came away with a 56-48 win over Oklahoma State on Saturday in Boone Pickens Stadium.. The Red Raiders (7-4, 5-3) and Cowboys (3-8, 0-8) engaged in a high-scoring ...
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.
7:36 p.m.: Abilene Christian is forced to punt. Texas Tech will get the ball at their own 30 with 6:46 left in the half, leading 25-14. 7:28 p.m.: Gino Garcia gets the first crack and field-goal ...
Hunter's commitment to Jackson State continues the re-growth of HBCUs in college football, which have produced some legendary players. Given HBCUs' incredible NFL track record, Travis Hunter can ...
On January 1, 2011, Tuberville became the second head coach in Texas Tech football history to win a bowl game in his first season—an accomplishment unmatched since DeWitt Weaver's first season in 1951–52. [40] On January 18, 2011, Texas Tech announced that Tuberville received a one-year contract extension and a $500,000 per year raise. [41]