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Texas Tech has played its home games at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas since 1947. 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 ...
The 2012 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team set a season average attendance record of 57,108, breaking the record set previously in 2010. [1] [40] A 34-27 win over the Oklahoma Sooners on November 17, 2007, was the start of a 12-game winning streak, the longest Red Raider winning streak at Jones AT&T Stadium that lasted through October 24 ...
The 2000 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Big 12 Conference during the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season.In their first season under head coach Mike Leach, the Red Raiders compiled a 7–6 record (3–5 against Big 12 opponents), finished in fourth place in Southern Division of the Big 12, and outscored opponents by a combined total ...
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 ...
November 1, 2023 at 12:34 PM. The Texas Tech football team will host Deion Sanders and Colorado during the 2024 season, as well as Arizona State, Baylor, Cincinnati and West Virginia. The Big 12 ...
Texas Tech sponsors 17 sports teams, one more than the requirement for NCAA Division I membership. When athletics departments were cash-strapped during the Covid pandemic, the NCAA declined to ...
The Texas Tech football program has traded a road game at Colorado State on the 2025 schedule for a home game against Kent State, part of Tech athletics director Kirby Hocutt 's stated plan for ...
Texas Tech players have earned consensus All-America honors 12 times: E. J. Holub in 1960, Donny Anderson in 1965, Dan Irons in 1977, Gabriel Rivera in 1982, Mark Bounds in 1991, Zach Thomas in 1995, Byron Hanspard in 1996, Montae Reagor in 1998, Michael Crabtree in 2007 and 2008, Brandon Carter in 2008, and Jace Amaro in 2013. [7]