texas tech red raiders history
texas tech red raiders history
Texas Tech football tickets should come with a warning to all Big 12 scoreboard operators: Loosen up your fingers and crack those knuckles, because the rootin'-tootin' Red Raiders from Texas Tech are headed your way. Also, make sure the scoreboard has room for triple digits.
If offenses if high-scoring shootouts are your thing, then saddle up your Texas Tech football tickets and hold on - you're in store for an offensive display like you've never been seen before. Under the direction of head coach Mike Leach, the Red Raiders lay claim to the most explosive and most modern offense in all of NCAA college football. When Leach unleashes his amazing arsenal of offensive firepower, it's a site to bee seen.
They average over 50 pass attempts per game and have been among the NCAA's top offenses for the last five years. Quarterbacks like Kliff Kingsberry, Leach helped turn Kentucky's offense into one of the SEC's most explosive before joining Bob Stoops as Oklahoma's offensive coordinator. His impact on the Sooners was felt immediately. In only his second year at Oklahoma, Leach helped lead the Sooners to a BCS National Championship. It wouldn't take long before other schools would take notice, and soon after leading Oklahoma to the 2000 national title, Leach would find himself in Lubbock as head coach of Texas Tech. Red Raider ticket sales surged with the announcement of Leach's hiring.
The anticipation around Jones AT&T Stadium could be felt all across Lubbock. Expectations were at an all-time high. What is this wide-open spread attack we keep hearing about? Are the Red Raiders really going to compete for Big 12 titles and trips to New Year's Day bowls? Leach hasn't batted an eye, taking the Texas Tech football program to a level that Red Raiders ticket holders have never experienced. Texas Tech has been to a bowl game in each of Leach's six years on campus, including last year's trip to the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day.
In last year's Cotton Bowl, the Red Raiders collided with defensive-minded Alabama. The game would go down to the wire with the Crimson Tide nipping the Red Raiders on a last-second field goal. Texas Tech is planning a return trip to another bowl game this year. But first they have to tangle with the rugged Big 12, which features such storied programs as the Oklahoma Sooners, the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Colorado Buffaloes and, of course, Tech's instate rivals, the Texas A&M Aggies, Baylor Bears and the defending national champion Texas Longhorns.
If Leach can lead Texas Tech through that brutal schedule a bowl game will await the Red Raiders come Christmas time. When the Red Raiders get rolling, there's no stopping them. It's unorthodox, wide-open football at its finest. Leach's crew will be putting up points in record numbers during the 2006 NCAA college football season. Witnessing the Red Raiders' offensive onslaught at Jones AT&T Stadium is well worth the cost of Texas Tech football tickets.
