- Texas Tech will be looking to snap a three-game losing skid in home Big 12 openers.
- Tech Defensive Coordinator Matt Wallerstedt is the Red Raiders’ fifth DC in as many years.
- TCU Safeties Coach Chad Glasgow was the Red Raiders’ Defensive Coordinator in 2011.
- Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury was a member of the Super Bowl Champions New England Patriots in 2003 and has a Super Bowl ring that he supposedly has never worn.
- Texas Tech Safeties Coach Trey Haverty was an assistant coach at TCU in 2011 and 2012.
- The Frogs make their first visit to Lubbock since 2004.
- The Frogs and Red Raiders played to a tie three straight times in Lubbock: 3-3 in 1979 in the snow, 39-39 in 1981 and 10-10 in 1983
- Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells was on the coaching staff at Texas Tech in the early 1970’s.
- The Frogs are looking for their first win in Lubbock since 1991 under head coach Jim Wacker, a 30-16 victory over the Red Raiders, coached by Spike Dykes.
- The 50 Yard Line Steakhouse is a legendary restaurant in Lubbock. If you go, be sure to get some blueberry muffins!
- The first game I ever played in for TCU was at Texas Tech in 1981 – the wild 39-39 tie. TCU Linebacker Mike Dry blocked a punt by Tech’s Maury Buford out of the back of the south end zone for a safety that tied the game late in the 4th quarter.
Tomorrow, a scouting report on the Red Raiders.
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John, at one of those early '80s games in Lubbock, the game was played in a light drizzle. Do you remember, all of the players wound up covered in mud despite the playing surface being artificial turf? All because of a West Texas dust storm that had preceded the rain!
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