College Football Team News, Analysis, History, Schedule, Rumors
Last Word on College Football continues to spend our Summer taking a look at the Best Returning Players, by position, by conference. In order to be eligible for the list, the player has to be returning to the conference. Players who transfer from one school to another within the conference are eligible. Players who are […] READ MORE
Offensive production. Explosive passing games. High-scoring affairs. These are all phrases that come to mind when talking about the Big XII. It’s true. The league is historically known for being carried by high-powered offenses. However, there have been some quality playmakers produced on the defensive side of the ball, especially in the secondary. Teams have […] READ MORE
A great quarterback can cover up a lot of deficiencies on any college football team. Veteran quarterbacks stack invaluable knowledge of experience on top of the skills they already possess. So teams with a great veteran quarterback have the potential to rise above the rest of their conference. No doubt the Big XII conference title […] READ MORE
With massive renovations underway at Jone At&t stadium, the conclusion of Texas Tech’s spring football practices took place just down the road at Lowery Field. Entering into year two under head coach Joey McGuire, this Red Raider program is looking to build off a very successful year one. There were some critical questions hoping to […] READ MORE
Head coach Joey McGuire injected much-needed life and optimism into the Red Raider football program last season. This included some school-record victories on the field and its best recruiting class since 2011. In this business though, any coach is only as good as his next season. There is plenty of reason to believe this program […] READ MORE
More often than not, college football is not about the X’s and the O’s but the Jimmys and the Joes. Being an elite recruiter will give a program a leg up on 80% of programs before the ball is even kicked off. It was very clear when Texas Tech Atheltic Director Kirby Holcutt hired Joey […] READ MORE
Expectations for the Texas Tech football team will be at a new place entering the 2023 season. That is directly due to the vast turnaround head coach Joey McGuire performed in his debut season as the Red Raider’s new leader. Sure, there are some games Red Raider fans would care to forget from this past […] READ MORE
No one loves to dwell on the negatives of a college football season. Especially given the fact that head coach Joey McGuire had a successful first year in Lubbock. But learning from mistakes is critical for growth in all aspects of life, not just building a competitive football program. The Texas Tech 2022 losses will […] READ MORE
American author Taylor Caldwell once wrote, “It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.” No matter what characteristics or motives we assign to others, all have a mix of complexities and simplicities. What the ratio of those is tends to color our perceptions of one’s obscurity or ordinariness. That gets us to […] READ MORE
A matchup between Texas Tech and Ole Miss surely was going to be a shootout right? Both of these teams ranked near the top of the national rankings when it came to plays run per game. Neither team is ever worried about the time of possession, so we were destined for a track meet at […] READ MORE
A native Texan, Andrew was baptized early on in the waters of college football. But when he witnessed Vince Young scampering into the end zone to defeat the USC Trojans in 2006, it was from his seat in the Rose Bowl he knew nothing could compete. He is a former college baseball player, proud Texas Tech graduate, and Air Force veteran. Andrew and his wife live in Maryland with their 3 kids and black lab. When not covering the Big 12, he can be frequently found tending to BBQ on his smoker on the weekends.