Texas Tech football gets rolled and settles in for long wait

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AUSTIN — The Texas Longhorns got the last laugh on the Texas Tech football program Friday night, at least for the time being.

In a 57-7 blowout, seventh-ranked Texas got five field goals from the kicker, four touchdowns from the offense, one touchdown from special teams and even a fluky TD from the defense. The Longhorns handed the Red Raiders their worst loss since a 66-10 setback seven years ago at Iowa State and held them to 184 yards, Tech’s lowest since it had 108 yards in a 23-0 shutout by Oklahoma State two years ago.

No, Joey McGuire, the Big 12 doesn’t, unfortunately, run through Lubbock. And Texas Tech didn’t win the Big 12 before UT scoots off to the SEC, another preseason goal. The outcome Friday made the Longhorns 11-1, the Red Raiders 6-6.

To the victors go the spoils — and, in this case, the chance to dig up three-month-old sound bites to really rub it in. Who can forget when Brett Yormark came to Lubbock for the Red Raider Club kickoff luncheon in August and, in front of everybody, said: “Coach (McGuire), I’m not going to put any pressure on you, but I’m going to be in Austin for Thanksgiving, OK? And you’d better take care of business like you did right here in Lubbock last year.”

As 100,000 or so Orangebloods were preparing to file out of Royal-Memorial Stadium, they showed that on the gigantic videoboard, the Big 12 commissioner as hard to miss as Big Brother from “1984”.

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Steve Sarkisian understands. The Texas coach gives those sort of talks himself when he’s in front of a friendly audience.

“I think that was a luncheon in Lubbock for the Red Raiders,” Sarkisian said, “and he said some things that, I think, were out of play and having fun with the…

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Author : Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Publish date : 2023-11-25 10:06:54

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