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The Red Raiders host their home indoor meets in the Sports Performance Center and their home outdoor meets at Linda and Terry Fuller Track, both located on the Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock, Texas. [2] Head coach Wes Kittley has led the Red Raiders teams since 2000. [3]
The Texas–Texas Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry [2] between the Texas Longhorns and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. The winner of this gauntlet receives the other university's chancellor's sterling silver boot spurs which is what the name of the rivalry is named after.
A play during the 1939 Cotton Bowl Classic between Texas Tech and St. Mary's. The Texas Tech Red Raiders football team has appeared in 41 post-season bowl games since the team's inaugural season in 1925. Texas Tech's rich bowl tradition ranks 20th in all-time bowl appearances and has set many bowl game attendance records. The Red Raiders have ...
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 .
The Texas Tech Red Raiders football team drew an average home attendance of 54,491 in 2023. The team started 0–2 for the first time since 1990 , after losing to both Wyoming and Oregon . [ 1 ] The Red Raiders would win their first game of the season in week 3, defeating FCS Tarleton State 41–3.
Tech and the Longhorns are slated to begin with a 6:30 p.m. Friday contest followed by tilts at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. All games are scheduled to be streamed online on ESPN+. 2024 Texas ...
Since both teams joined the Big 12 Conference in 1996, Texas Tech has won 10, while Texas A&M has won 6, of these last 16 meetings. Texas A&M has a three-game winning streak against Texas Tech following their 2011 victory against Texas Tech in Lubbock. [94] The rivalry has been dormant since Texas A&M departed the Big 12 for the SEC in 2012.
Texas Tech athletics teams compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference. From 1932 until 1956, the university belonged to the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Texas Tech was admitted to the Southwest Conference on May 12, 1956.