Preview: Tech welcomes Oklahoma for Senior Night

LUBBOCK, Texas – The time has come for quite a lot of Red Raiders, the last house recreation at Jones AT&T Stadium for the senior class. Texas Tech hosts Oklahoma Saturday night time at 6:30 p.m., a ceremony will precede kickoff to honor roughly 24 upperclassmen. While it will likely be the final time in entrance of the house crowd, bowl eligibility was secured final outing and a vacation spot shall be introduced on Dec. 4. 

Television protection shall be supplied by FS1 with Eric Collins behind the mic. He shall be joined by former Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner serving as the published analyst. Fans can entry the sport from their cellular or streaming machine by utilizing the FOX Sports app.

Texas Tech Sports Network will even broadcast the sport over 46 associates all through the state of Texas and New Mexico as Brian Jensen may have the decision alongside analyst John Harris and sideline reporter Chris Level. The radio broadcast can be heard on SiriusXM channel 135 or 200, in addition to on the Varsity app.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM LUBBOCK

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• Texas Tech will spend Thanksgiving weekend at house for the primary time since 2008 Saturday night time when the Red Raiders host Oklahoma underneath the Jones AT&T Stadium lights. It shall be Senior Night as Texas Tech will honor 20-plus members of its senior class previous to kickoff. 
• The Red Raiders may have the chance to notch one among their most-successful seasons in current reminiscence with a victory over the Sooners. In reality, a win versus the Sooners would push the Red Raiders to their first successful Big 12 document since 2009. A victory would additionally mark Texas Tech’s sixth at house this season, marking its most since that very same 2009 season.

TECH GOING BOWLING FOR 40TH TIME

• Texas Tech assured its spot in a bowl recreation for the fortieth time in program historical past this previous weekend with its 14-10 victory at Iowa State. The Red Raiders entered this season tied for twenty first in FBS historical past for all-time bowl appearances and can transfer into sole possession of third place on the Big 12 chart as West Virginia is now not postseason-eligible.  
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• For Joey McGuire, he turns into the eighth first-year head coach to guide the Red Raiders to a bowl recreation in his debut season, constructing on the constructive momentum since his rent a 12 months in the past. Texas Tech will head to a bowl recreation in consecutive seasons for the primary time because the 2012-13 campaigns.

 

 

RED RAIDERS LOOK TO END STREAK AGAINST SOONERS

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• This would be the thirtieth all-time assembly between Texas Tech and Oklahoma because the Red Raiders shall be trying to snap a 10-game shedding streak towards the Sooners. Oklahoma controls the general sequence between the 2 faculties with a 23-6 all-time document versus the Red Raiders, which features a 9-4 mark at Jones AT&T Stadium. 
• The Red Raiders shall be wanting for their first win within the sequence since Texas Tech shocked the top-ranked Sooners, 41-38, in 2011. Oklahoma, which was No. 1 within the coaches’ ballot on the time, has rolled off 10-consecutive wins since that loss, marking the longest successful streak by both workforce all-time within the sequence.  
• This weekend’s matchup snaps an 11-year streak the place the Red Raiders will face a ranked Oklahoma workforce. Texas Tech is 3-3 all-time towards unranked Oklahoma groups with wins in 1996, 1999 and 2009. 
• With a win this weekend over the Sooners, it might mark the primary time in program historical past Texas Tech has defeated each Oklahoma and Texas in the identical season. The Red Raiders beforehand topped the Longhorns, 37-34, in time beyond regulation, to open Big 12 play. 

TEXAS TECH-OKLAHOMA CONNECTIONS

• Texas Tech exterior linebackers coach C.J. Ah You will face his alma mater for the primary time in his teaching profession as he beforehand starred for the Sooners from 2005-06. Ah You was a two-year starter for the Sooners, garnering Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year accolades in 2005 after which All-Big 12 first workforce honors as a senior a 12 months later. He started his teaching profession as a defensive high quality management assistant at Oklahoma in 2014 following a six-year stint within the NFL. 
• Texas Tech boasts 5 Oklahoma natives on its roster in senior linebacker Patrick Curley (Wagoner), true freshman defensive again Maurion Horn (Broken Arrow), redshirt freshman Isaac Smith (Wagoner), senior defensive again Dadrion Taylor-Demerson (Oklahoma City) and senior defensive again Cameron Watts (Tulsa). Watts attended Northeast Oklahoma A&M previous to transferring to Texas Tech in 2020. 
• On the other sideline, Oklahoma has two employees members with ties to Texas Tech in offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh in addition to advisor to the top coach and offensive analyst Matt Wells. Wells returns to Jones AT&T Stadium for the primary time after serving as Texas Tech’s sixteenth head soccer coach, ending 13-17 general over the course of the 2019-21 seasons. Bedenbaugh, in the meantime, was a graduate assistant at Tech from 2000-02 earlier than incomes a full-time place because the operating backs coach from 2003-04 after which the offensive line coach from 2005-06. 
• Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables is a former faculty teammate of Texas Tech Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt at Kansas State. The two performed underneath legendary Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder for two seasons (1991-92) when Venables was an upperclassman, whereas Hocutt was starting his Wildcat profession. Venables was an honorable point out All-Big Eight choice in 1992 after registering 124 tackles as a junior. Hocutt adopted the following season by main the Big Eight to earn all-conference accolades of his personal.

 

 

NEWS & NOTES HEADING INTO OKLAHOMA

• Texas Tech at the moment stands at 4-4 in Big 12 play coming into the ultimate recreation of the common season. With a win over Oklahoma, the Red Raiders would assure their first successful convention document since 2009 when Texas Tech was 5-3 in league play as a part of the previous eight-game mannequin. 
• A victory over the Sooners would permit the Red Raiders to shut the common season with three-consecutive victories for the primary time since 1995, Texas Tech’s last season within the Southwest Conference. Texas Tech wrapped that season with a house win over TCU earlier than happening the highway to high each SMU and Houston as a part of a 9-3 season that was capped by a victory over Air Force within the Copper Bowl. 
• In addition, a victory over Oklahoma this weekend would mark Texas Tech’s third-consecutive win in Big 12 play, its longest streak since opening the 2013 convention slate with four-straight wins. 
• Texas Tech might probably end as excessive as tied for third within the Big 12 standings with a win and a victory by Baylor over Texas on Friday. The Red Raiders, who can end no worse than fourth place with a victory over Oklahoma, haven’t ended the common season in fourth or higher of the league standings because the Big 12 moved to a division-less format at 10 groups starting in 2011. 
• The victory over Kansas improved the Red Raiders to 5-1 at house this season, marking their most wins at Jones AT&T Stadium since Texas Tech was 6-1 general in entrance of its followers in 2009. The Red Raiders have received six or extra house video games in a season 10 occasions of their historical past, together with 4 occasions as Big 12 Conference members (2000, 2005, 2008, 2009). 
• Winning the turnover margin has been a key message for Joey McGuire since his hiring as a part of his pull to “take three” every recreation. The Red Raiders are an ideal 3-0 this season when successful the turnover margin after victories over Texas (+2), West Virginia (+4) and Kansas (+2). 

IT WAS AN ALL-AMERICAN YEAR FOR TYREE WILSON

Wilson announced his intention to enter the NFL Draft on Nov. 20 and start the restoration course of for a foot damage suffered through the second half on Nov. 12 versus Kansas, formally ending his run being some of the impactful gamers to ever put on the scarlet and black. 

WILSON’S 10-GAME RESUME

(statistics of as Nov. 13 following final recreation performed; exited early in Nov. 12 contest with two tackles, 0.0 TFLs)

• Tyree Wilson led the facility 5 with 50 pressures and ranked second within the FBS in keeping with Pro Football Focus.
• He ranked tied for third within the energy 5 for tackles for loss (14.0) and tied for ninth within the FBS.
• He led the FBS with 8.5 tackles for loss towards opponents that have been ranked within the Nov. 13 AP Top 25 ballot. He additionally led the facility 5 with 9.0 TFLs in true highway video games and ranked fourth within the FBS for the class.
• Wilson ranked tied for twenty fifth within the FBS for complete sacks (7.0) regardless of usually dealing with double groups on passing downs. He led the FBS with 5.0 sacks towards opponents that have been ranked within the high 25 of the Nov. 13 AP ballot.
• Wilson, not only a go rusher, although, as he was third on the workforce with 61 tackles after 10 video games this season, simply essentially the most in his profession. Wilson was at the moment one among solely two energy 5 gamers and one among seven gamers within the FBS to document 60 tackles by way of video games performed on Nov. 12, at the very least 10.0 TFLs and at the very least 6.0 sacks.

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