Red Raiders wounded, but overcome Bears
BY DON WILLIAMS
AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
This wasn’t the picture that Texas Tech players had in mind for their final home game of the season: Mike Crabtree sidelined, Graham Harrell playing with two injured fingers, a quiet crowd in their seats and a two-touchdown deficit on the scoreboard.
With a whale of a last quarter and a half, the Red Raiders somehow overcame it all.
Trailing Baylor 28-14 in the third quarter, No. 7 Texas Tech scored three straight touchdowns to pull out a 35-28 victory Saturday afternoon at Jones AT&T Stadium. The game winner was set up by an interception from middle linebacker Brian Duncan, catching a pass batted by safety Jordy Rowland.
The go-ahead touchdown pass to Detron Lewis with 6:14 left and a fourth-down sack by Tech defensive end McKinner Dixon at the 3:32 mark put the capper on what could have been a disastrous senior day.
“I don’t have anything good to say about the first half,’’ Tech coach Mike Leach said, “and I don’t have anything bad to say about the second half, and I really didn’t see much in between. You had the first half, which was pitiful, and you had the second half, which was impressive.’’
Graham Harrell and the Red Raiders completed the comback with a 21-0 run to beat Baylor for the 13th straight time
Tech (11-1, 7-1 in the Big 12 Conference) shared the Big 12 South Division championship with No. 2 Texas and No. 3 Oklahoma, but the Raiders’ shot at playing in this week’s Big 12 championhip game ended later Saturday when Oklahoma beat No. 11 Oklahoma State 61-41.
Harrell is expected to have surgery today on his left (non-throwing) hand, though the injury and the repair weren’t expected to cost him any game time even if Tech had made it to the Big 12 title game. He hurt the hand in the second quarter and played the second half with his left pinkie and ring finger bandaged together.
He wasn’t the only big gun to get hurt.
Tech’s second-half scoring drives — 14 plays for 72 yards, 12 for 95 yards and seven for 38 yards — came with Crabtree out, apparently with an injured right ankle. Crabtree caught a pass and landed awkwardly along the sideline at the 1-yard line on a second-quarter play that set up a touchdown.
Tech’s medical staff examined Crabtree on the sideline, and a while later, he was carried up the tunnel on a motorized cart. He emerged after halftime, wearing a protective boot and street clothes.
He watched as his teammates devised a comeback without him.
Baylor, already up 21-14 at the break, widened the lead by scoring a touchdown on the first series of the third quarter. Highlighting the drive was a 47-yard burst by running back Jay Finley when the Bears caught Tech in a blitz.
The Raiders retaliated with a Shannon Woods touchdown at the 5:52 mark of the second quarter and a thin holiday-weekend crowd that had been dull all day finally mixed in some noise.
“The crowd plays a little bit of a factor, but usually it’s all about us anyway,’’ Dixon said. “We’re just trying to get ourself excited to play.’’
Baylor (4-8, 2-6) got two touchdowns in the first half from short-field situations, one after Harrell threw an interception and the other after he fumbled.
In the second half, the line protected Harrell better and the Raiders turned to other skill-position players, especially the running backs and Lewis, who caught four passes on the march to the tying touchdown as well as what proved to be the game winner on a 4-yard pass.
Michael Crabtree pulls in a catch along the sideline to set up a touchdown before leaving the game midway through the second quarter.
Defensively, the Raiders finally made some adjustments to slow Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin and Finley. The two had a combined 193 rushing yards at the time Baylor made it 28-14 on the first series of the second half, but only 11 rushing yards from then on.
Defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill said he put a spy on Griffin in the first half, but could see it wasn’t working.
“I thought it made us hesitate,’’ he said. “Then in the second half, we took the spy off. We just said, ‘OK, let’s go four-man rush.’ That’s when McKinner and them took over and did a good job.’’
Griffin, a potential world-class hurdler, scored on runs of 1 and 13 yards in the first half. His 99 rushing yards were the most by quarterback all season against Tech. In the first 11 games, quarterbacks averaged 14.7 yards rushing against the Raiders.
But none of the other guys have Griffin’s speed.
“When we came in the first day of meetings (last week), the first thing coach said was, ‘This is probably the best athlete in the Big 12,’’’ Rowland said. “You watch him on film and you believe that. He’s something special.
“It was a matter of everybody keeping containment and doing their job as far as the option game. We struggled with that in the first half. Luckily, the defensive line came back the second half and really dominated the line of scrimmage and was able to keep him contained.’’
Baylor has lost 13 games in a row in the series, and its last win in Lubbock remains the one in 1990.
But the Bears had never come so close against Leach, whose teams had outscored Baylor by an average of 47-11 in the first eight meetings.
“I am proud of the way our players played,’’ Baylor coach Art Briles said. “I thought they played with a lot of passion and confidence. They played hard for each other. I’m extremely disappointed that we didn’t come out with the victory.’’
As for the Raiders, their lackluster first half came on the heels of Tech’s crushing 65-21 loss the week before at Oklahoma.
“I don’t’ know if it was from that, but we didn’t come out excited to play,’’ Leach said. “That first half was not one to be proud of, and the second half was one to be incredibly proud of. Key leaders like Graham Harrell were instrumental to us playing the way we did the second half. I think our offensive line and our defensive line played about as bad as you could the first half and played about as good as you could the second half.’’
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Once again, Tech failed to prepare defensively. We ran a base defense almost the entire game last week against OU, and this week, we failed to look back at Tech-UT games to watch how we used to prepare for Vince Young! What does it take for us not to choke in big games and just take care of business!
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Didn’t exactly look like a nat’l championship contender, did we?
And why does it take the DO an entire half to figure out how to “adjust” to stop the Baylor rushing tandem? Goodness gracious man, great sakes alive!
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I missed the majority of the game, including all scoring due to my grandaughter’s birthday party. I know the team made adjustments and pulled out a win. What I fail to see is the way Tech continually NEEDS to make adjustments. Why are they having to make so many adjustments whan McNiel should have them aligned properly and running the correct schemes from the start? They do study films. Right? Then what is the problem? If this team is really serious about bowling and representing Texas Tech with honor and with GOOD football, they need to come out at the gun storming the opposition, not “bending”. Get going right away-do it right from the start. A few changes are always expected at the half, or throughout the game, not wholesale changes, especially in ‘attitude’. Coach Leach is right: the first half was nothing to be proud of. A half like that, if you want to be a top-10 team, should not happen. This win is good, but the way it waswon was not. With where this team has placed us in the whole scheme of things, it SHOULDbe turning in a top notch performance for a whole game, not just after making adjustments at the half. Get your heads on straight. Play like you really belong in the top-10.
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The author of this article must not have been at the game to call the crowd quiet.
Given the level of enthusiasm the players exhibited in the first 2 1/2 quarters, I thought the crowd was pretty excited. In the second half (before the comeback) the crowd really fired up and pumped up the defense.
To say that the team had to overcome a quiet crowd seems a little odd to me.
I will have to say that it took a lot of guts for the team to come back after last week. It would have been pretty easy to just punch the clock on this game which was now in essence meaningless without an oSu upset. It appeared that the team did just show up for over half the game. But it is to their credit that they shook off the “nothing to play for” blues and overcame a two touchdown deficit vs. an improved Baylor team.
I don’t think the lackluster defensive performance early in the game had much to do with preparation. Defense, especially depends on energy, and the defense just didn’t show up to play early in this game. They were much more aggressive in the second half and finally made some stops.
At this point, does it really matter how much our guys won this game by, or for that matter how much we lost the last one by? We all know that we would have had to go undefeated to have any chance of being voted ahead of the traditional powers. In a three way tie, we would have been disregarded no matter what the individial scoring differentials would have been.
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I say hats off to the Raiders. Yes, it sounds like they did not play well at all the first half, but I expected them to have a hangover from the )& debacle. They had a lot of adversity to overcome ( a deficit, losing Crabtree, and Harrell being injured.) I think we should be proud of this team. How many of us truly believed at the beginning of the season that we would finish 11-1 and tie for the big 12 south championship? I wish the Cowboys could have won tonight. That would have been sweet.
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At the risk of sounding like a total whiner, I find it infuriating that no matter how well we do, the the same undereducated and over monied group of jerks still have their foot on our necks. There is no way in the current system that Tech will ever get the opportunity to play in the Big 12 championship game or the BCS. How in the hell do you will 11 games in a BCS confernance and still get tossed out with the riff raff when it comes to the bowls. Face it ya’ll, we’re the poor step child and always will be. Not enough money, not enough influence and a crappy location to recruit. Toss in the media darling Sooners and Longhorns and we’re garraunteed to get f****ed!! I think I liked it better when we just won 8 games. Then I knew all of this other crap was true, but there wasn’t any point getting mad about it. Now I’m just bitter. Hope everybody likes Dallas because it appears that as long as OU and UT kiss the right a$$ it’s as far as we’re ever going to go.
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Basically, reaching a record of 11-1 seems useless, pointless, and a waste of time and effort in the way the BCS system is setup. No matter how hard and how well Tech plays, Tech’s fate will always lie in the hands of the corrupt.
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Hey, 11-1 is not wasted. Just ask all the other teams that have been through the hallowed grounds of Jones Stadium and they would switch places with these guys in a second. In the 80+ years only two other seasons can equal this one. In fact when we win the bowl game this will go down as the greatest season in school history. So what if the BCS is junk. As far we the world is concerned there is only one team that can beat us.
Awesome job team, and keep it up.
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I apologize. I didn’t mean to say that 11-1 was not something to be proud of, just that something like this for Texas Tech is inefficient in terms of the BCS – and how it’s junk. Tech has had an excellent season. I just think the whole BCS ranking system is bull**** and unfair.
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Hey everyone….don’t forget…..all Tech had to do last week is win against a great OU team. They didn’t. And now we complain about the “system?” Until Tech can win the big games on the road to quiet the doubters, TTU will continue to have to prove itself. Remember, the other two teams have been there and done that, Tech hasn’t…..yet.
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Two things.
1. Every other year, we lose this game. When the other team has a mobile QB who adlibs 1st downs, historically we get KILLED. Mizzouri had a QB that torched us for 66 several years ago in a game just like the Baylor game. Everyone seems to forget the years of embarrasing defensive performances both with Spike and Leach until this season. It is amazing how everyone becomes an instant McNiel basher when we don’t win every game by 100 and stop every Big 12 team on every possession. McNiel has done a MAGNIFICENT JOB and deserves only your respect and congratulations.
2. The BCS is crap. However, there are no SEC, Big East, ACC, Mountain West, Pac10, Big10, Conf. USA, WAC, etc. teams that has gotten the attention this year that the southern division of the Big 12 has gotten. I have always marveled at how everyone falls all over Ohio State, Michigan, USC, Notre Dame, Georgia to the behest of the Big 12. NOT THIS YEAR. Win lose or draw, we have had higher ratings, better story lines, better games and more attention than everyone else in America. I wish we had beaten OU, I wish we could settle the National Championship on the field in a playoff, and I wish we didn’t settle the Big 12 Championship by voters outside our conference. But those things are not going to be changed. Regardless, this 11-1 season will be remembered historically as one of the best accomplishments in Texas Tech sports period. The system is what it is but this season has been truly SPECIAL. The program is exciting and is on the right track for the future. All of us Red Raider fans are truly blessed to have witnessed it and I can’t wait to see what this program gives us next.
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As I type this I am embarrased to be a Tech fan. Is it because of the football team’s performance the last two weeks? NOT EXACTLY!! I am embarrased because of the comments that some (not all) of my fellow fans put on this website. This football team just went 11-1 in the toughest division in the history of college football. Believe me, no one was more disapointed in last weeks debacle than the players who have worked their butts off all year. I’m sure none of you have ever had a bad day, and Tech picked a bad day to have a bad day against the Sooners. Benny Mack is an idiot. What the heck are you talking about? Did you just watch the last two games and assume Tech is is now 1-11 with todays win against Baylor? You didn’t see the OK State and Texas game? If these kids choked I guess every BCS conference team in the country other than Alabama is just a bunch of chokers. Going undefeated in a BCS conference is allmost impossible and Texas and OK will allways get more credit for their losses than Tech will. I loved what Leach said after the game about breaking the three way tie by using graduation percentage. You see, that’s the the difference between Tech and teams like OU, Texas, and other BCS so called powerhouses. Tech is not a farm league for the NFL. Our football players graduate AND win football games. I’ve never had more fun following a football team than this years Red Raiders and their true fans are proud of them. Congrats to the best Red Raider football team ever! GUNS UP.
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We sure did not look like a national champ contender! Our “MOJO” was taken away in Norman! There was no sense of electricity in the area like in past games, something was missing, the stadium area felt lackluster, no spirit, it is hard to explain what I felt when I showed up at the stadium, something was missing. Spirit, Electricity, MOJO don’t know but it showed on the field. Great record, soooo close, yet soooo far.
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Almost beat by the Baylor bears in your own house, after watching Tech get stomped by ou and almost beat bt an unranked team in your own house, no doubt, beating Texas was a fluke. Tech is nowhere near representing the big 12 in the NC. What a frickin joke, yall ain’t got jack.
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Billy Brown, Tech 39- Texas 33 and a dominating performance by the Red Raiders who led the game all but 1:32. You call getting dominated by Texas Tech a fluke? Well then so was Tech’s OU loss. I hope Oklahoma jumps over Texas in the BCS just to shut up loud mouth, sour grapes, venom spewing Texas fans. It’s Texas fans like you that make all the rest of us Texans pull for Oklahoma. I’m a Red Raider first but all I have to say to your kind is Boomer Sooner,
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Rick, that’s all Tech has is a win over Texas, who had a bad night.. Tech ran their mouths after beating Texas, and got their butts stomped by ou, hardly a fluke. tech looked pathetic against ou and Baylor abd for sure do not deserve to be in the big 12 championship. Tech is not a contender when it comes to playing with the big boys, it’s consistency that counts, something has been lacking at tech and always will be. Next year yall will not have Harrel, and possbly Crabtree, even worse, rumor has it that Leach may got to Tenessee. Truth is tech is a bunch of losers. When yall put your hands up for yopur team, it’s a “L” for loser. Almost beat by Baylor on your own house LMAO. Have fun at your toilet bowl.
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11-1 AND NO BCS BOWL. LMAO. SRUBS.
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1.NO MONEY AT TECH, WE HAVE HIGH SCHOOL STADIUMS IN AUSTIN THAT ARE BETTER THAN TECHS.
2. NO RECRUITS. WHO IN THE HELL WOULD WANT TO LIVE THERE, ONE VISIT TO LUBBUCK AND YOUR READY TO GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE, IT’S NOT EVEN A FUN PLACE TO VISIT FOR THE WEEKEND.
3. NO BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP, NO BCS BOWL, AND NO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EVER. TECH HAD ONE CHANCE IN GOD ONLY KNOWS HOW MANY YEARS AND YOU CHOKED WHEN IT MATTERED, NOW ALL I HEAR IS A BUNCH OF CRIEBABIES WINING ABOUT THE BCS SYSTEM, FACE IT TECH YALL JUST AREN;T THAT GOOD, LOOK AT YOUR RATINGS.
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Billy, it really is not necessary to be such a a**. Tech has long fought against “bought” teams and has proven themselves this year. We will be going to a BCS Bowl young man (Cotton) which happens to be one of the higher bowls – think better then Rose, Gator, and Orange. Tech has proud history of winning bowl games, further proving that we are not a “fluke”. What is Texas going to do without Colt or Shipley? I’d say that’s calling the kettle black – we have proven receivers, running backs and QB that will be around next year to fill the empty postions and that have all seen field time. Mack Brown puts all his faith in such few players that the backups see little field time. Remember Colt being injured by A&M several years ago? The rest of the team looked like they just lost their mommie.
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What rating is good to you? Only to be #1. That a pretty tall order for any team. Is that how you live your life? Only expecting to be #1 in all that you do? You must be disappointed alot.
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Cynthia, The cotton bowl is crap. The rose bowl is the cream of the crop, nowhere near the cotton bowl and certainly nowhere near the money. Have you ever seen the Rose bowl parade, there is more money spent on the pareade alone than all of the whole cotton bowl, Tech has a history of winning bowl games, bowl games the nobody watches, LMAO. Both Colt and Shipley will be here next year dumb a$$. At least Texas has mommies.
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In defence of Lubbock, I haved lived here since I was 4, yes I thought that LubbOck, not Lubbuck, was boring when I was in high school. Remember that we are only 200,000, not a million in population. We are a agricultural town not a industrial town. Tech only has 28, 000 students which is up from 22,000 several years ago. It is not necessary to have a stadium that seats 80,000 at this point. Ground breaking news for you, expansion set to begin to increase Jones Stadium began yesterday. As for weekends, you make what you want out of a weekend. We have plenty of music, good food, bars for drinking if you have to be entertained cheaply, which is what is expect.
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Billy Brown, are you honestly raiding a Texas Tech fan website with idiotic comments on a Sunday morning? Is this what to expect from all Texas fans? Are you still heartbroken about your loss?
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Congratulations to Tech players and coaches for a great season. We will be playing a bowl game in January and show the country what a great team we have.
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A look into Texas past has seen some Cotton, Alamo, Holiday, Fiesta, and Sun bowls – not exactly the big fancy bowls that Billy brags about……
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Mr. Billy Brown,
Do you really have so little to do that you are looking at the red raider website and making post that make no sense or have any accuracy at all. I don’t know much about Austin’s high schools but I woud bet none hold 56,000. I would say Crabtree and Harrell were pretty good recruits that came to Lubbock. As far as Leach leaving to coach the vols, if you had any sports knowledge you would know that Lane Kiffin was hired as their new coach 2 days ago. I know you want Leach to leave, but it looks like you will be disappointed, again like you were on Nov. 1. I find it funny that every Texas fan wants Leach and Crabtree to leave, but none of us are posting thank the lord Colt is going to file the paperwork to test the NFL draft waters as he indicated he would after the Texas win over A&M. By the way, do you have any degrees from UT because if you did it is just one more reason to avoid Austin at all costs. And my favorite of all your posts “LOOK AT YOUR RATINGS.” I think you meant rankings. However, if you did not, the three highest rated football games this year had one common team and it was Tech.
As for what really matters, Red Raiders great gritty win. The game may not have been pretty but it showed a lot of character and I am proud to call you my team. Wrech em Tech
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Billy B is a great example for UT fans. NOT QUITE
He was rooting for Tech vs OU, and as soon as the game was over, he switched to wearing burnt orange.
Well, he can be unhappy too. He won’t see Missouri again in Kansas City. Finally he could root vs OU to hope for a mercy shot at the NC.
11-1 is a great record guys. I understand frustration about it.
We had our best season yet when two heavywieght legacies matched our record. We ARE on their level. We must prove it every game. Baylor almost destroyed any hope for a future.
Cotton Bowl cannot put a nail in a coffin if we aren’t buried yet.
So act alive. Play football. Get defense into the game and stop depending on momentum. We must play well when we ARENT underdogs too.
GUNS UP
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Well said Wade, you know I find it funny that most NFL qb’s come from the”lesser known” schools and not the programs that recieve the most press because of their ratings ie; USC, TEXAS, OU,FLORIDA,ALABAMA and the other “big boys”
I am very proud of this team, because wins are wins, loses are loses and they take them all in stride with-out all the hoopla. Credit is due to all involved, especially the one’s that lay it on the line each weekend THE 11-1 RED RAIDER PLAYERS.
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Tech had control of their own destiny………….all Tech had to do was beat OU. Now, the whining about the BCS system is coming out of TTU.
TTU should feel lucky OU did not score 100 against them.
If Leach coached at OU and was playing TTU under the same circumstances he would have scored 100.
Look at OU’s non conference schedule compared to TTU and there is no comparison in terms of degree of difficulty. Tech had very little room for error and it cost them in the biggest way.
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I only pulled for tech against ou, that is the only time I pull for tech. Fact is tech is a bunch of scrubs who really thought they were something, I was LMAO last night watching tech almost get beat by an unranked team in their own house. Tech is nothing buit a bunch of scrubs who get lucky from time to time, with never any consistent wins. NO BCS BOWL EVER, NO BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP EVER, NO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EVER. LMAO.
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I just want to say congrats to the Raiders! Disregarding the total BCS mess, we have a chance to go play in an upper tier bowl, beat an SEC opponent, and finish the year in the Top 5 in the nation! What a great year! It’s a little below where we all had our sights set, but it’s still been an incredible season! GO TECH!!
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Billy Brown, what a name…Billy, not Bill. Are you 12? You probably don’t live in Austin, or attend TU. You’re one of those cling-on’s that so many successful programs have to suffer with. One thing Leach and T-Tech will never be able to top, and that’s the world-class whining of Mattress Mac Brown. Hey, maybe you go to UTEP.
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Our Raiders suck and all of us know it, so quit your whining over the BCS crap, texas is the team that deserves to go and deep down inside you all know it. We almost got our tails kicked by baylor. Lets face it we do not have the money texas and oaklahoma has and we will always be underneathe them, so what if we beat them from time to time, we never win the one that counts. WE SUCK.
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no sense in being ugly-Tech played way above any expectations-Baylor was scary, OK was ugh but overall this was a fun ride this year and it was a great year to say-I am a Red Raider. And I know that we may never hit the ranks of Florida or UT, but that is not what htis school was developed for. It was for West Texas kids. I hope it goes back that way and stays that way-so what we don’t play for the Natinal Championship, this universtiy should go back to giving West Tx football players a cchance to play D1. The kids who LOVE it here. not the ones who couldn’tgo anywhere else.
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Congrats to the red raiders for a great season, too bad it had to come on the heels of an amazing big 12 south year.
I think all red raider fans now know that the bar has been set. Recruits and prospects can come to Tech knowing that they are going to win regardless of who is lined up next to them. And that Tech has arrived as a premier school in the Big 12.
On a personal note, I am hoping Oklahoma gets the Big 12 bid. I have noted a certain level of cordialness coming out of the Tech and Oklahoma clubs towards one another. I don’t see that coming outta austin.
And to all the longhorn bloggers on this site, winning a blogging argument is like winning the special olympics. You may win, but your still a retard.
Have a good day.
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Once again, this team won a game that in the past we would have lost. This is a team with mental toughness and strong leaders. The OU game was an obvious debacle. But 10 years from now when they look back at this team, they will see a 12-1 bowl winning team that ends up ranked in the top 10, possibly top 5 in the final rankings. The best Texas Tech team ever. Yes, we started pretty slowly against an improved Baylor team, but great teams find a way to win when your star receiver is hurt, one of your starting senior safeties is out, and your team is flat. Just like OU beating Kansas at home just by 14 points and Texas beating OSU at home just by 4. Hopefully, this great seaon will translate into a great recruiting class and several years of similar success. Leach is not going anywhere. I believe, if he considered this just a stepping stone job a la Jim Carlen, Steve Sloan, David McWilliams, he would have left after just a few years like each of them did. Tech will pay him big bucks and he will be around for awhile yet. GO RAIDERS!
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It is stupid to have a Boston College go to a BCS game at 5-3 in conference and 9-3 overall in a crappy division. When there is so many great 1 loss teams and several no loss teams.
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billy brown = uneducated janitor who likes little boys…LMAO
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11-1 and “WE SUCK”?
Why do you even read the news stories? You’re not even a fan!
If you would have told me Tech would be 11-1 before the season began, I would’ve said, “No way!”
But here we are.
I am super proud to be a Red Raider.
Why don’t all you so-called fans go “support” some other team.
Give me a break…ridiculous…
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This uneducated janitor makes more in one day than most people make in a week LMAO. Unlike Lubbock there is money to be made in Austin. The only thing tech did all year was beat Texas, that’s all tech has that meant anything, a win over Texas, but who’s going to a BCS bowl game, sure as hell ain’t tech, same ol team same ol crap, tech is a nobody in the big 12. Get back under the porch, your not ready to run with the big dogs, hell even the little dog almost beat your ragedy a$$ raiders. TECH SUCKS.
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I’m pretty sure that Billy Brown is posting under several names here, claiming to be a tech fan and saying tech sucks. He literally has no class or life at all.
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I’m glad we won yesterday but this game should not have been close. Baylor was a bad 4-7 team and we made them look legitmate. We played ourselves out of a BCS appearance and it comes right down to our poor defense. We need a new defensive coordinator. Except for the 1st half of Texas and the Ok State game, our defense has been very flat and tentative.
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Gregg, what tech needs is money, so you can get good recruits, Problem is not many players want to live in and go to school at the dump of a town, I don’t even think money will help you, it’s the location.
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Yea, Crabtree is breaking free alright, his ankle. LMAO. If OU jumps us so what, they should go, we will be at least going to a premier BCS bowl game unlike the (NON) BCS bowl your headed to that nobody watches or cares about.
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Billy my boy. Your beloved shorthorns are on the outside looking in. LOL. OU will play in the NC. Enjoy the game you scrub!
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I would like to apologize to all the Tech fans here. Truth be known I am really just a Texas t-shirt fan that never attended UT or any other college. I just like them because they usually do pretty well and it makes me feel more worthy since I have low self esteem. Just had to confess to you all! Best of luck to Tech in your bowl game!
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It’s my opinion that people on sites like this who spew venom and constantly trash others are living miserable lives and want others to suffer as much as they do. They deserve only pity. But then, if they’re miserable, they brought it on themselves. GO RAIDERS!!!!
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Tech is a great team and is going to a great bowl , texas on the other hand good team, better bowl, depending on who wins the SEC they will probably play florida or alabama, everybody talks about the spectacular offenses of the Big 12 and they are. but if texas plays florida, florida will dismantle the longhorns with tebow and that amazing defense and bama has a bunch of decent players who play harder than anyone else in college football either way the bowl game doesnt look good for UT. Tech good luck in the cotton bowl i hope to be there. GO TECH!!!
Harrell 4 Heisman!
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Texas Tech had a great season, all tech fans should be proud of what they have accomplished this year. Personally I can remember when TECH, ut, Baylor, and a&m played their butts off to get in the Cotton Bowl so if that is where we end up I will be just as proud. Now for all these ut fans that are still sour for Tech beating them, The BCS just put Oklahoma above ut. All mack browns begging, ut spending millions on posters that read 45 – 35, airplanes flying over a game that had nothing to do with their university, phone calls to the announcers during the game and on and on didn’t do any damn good. that is pure justice in my book.
Quoting mack brown for the fun of it we won head to head, if thats the case it will be ut in the cotton bowl and tTech in a BCS. i am sure ole mack will cjange is attitude now.
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This is coming from Baylor fan, and I have to admit this is the first time I’ve been to this site. My hats are off to Tech who played a great second half to overcome a large deficit. What I can’t stand is people who don’t give our team any credit. We played in the toughest conference in College Football this year, and we barely lost a few of our games, including Missouri. I’m not saying we should have beat Tech, but it wouldn’t have been as huge as a loss as most people think. Anyone should be proud of a 11-1 record, and fans of any team that get on another school’s website to talk trash, need to get a life.
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HERE IS A FACT FOR BILLY BROWN……..
TEXAS TECH IS THE TEXAS STATE CHAMPION.
TECH 3-0
BAYLOR 2-1
TEXAS 2-1
A & M 0-3
IT’S ALL IN THE NUMBERS
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Matt. Baylor played a great game. Nothing to be ashamed of this year and Art Briles is a great coach. Good Luck to you next year.
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