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Amid all the noise of the playoff run, Texas Tech quietly landed exactly the kind of piece that keeps an offense humming. Tight end Matt Ludwig, a four-star prospect and Montana’s Gatorade Player of the Year, was released from his letter of intent at Michigan on December 11 and committed to the Red Raiders the […]

Momentum in Lubbock keeps building as Texas Tech stacks more offensive talent for the future. A day after being released from his letter of intent at Michigan, four-star tight end Matt Ludwig flipped to the Red Raiders, per Hayes Fawcett of Rivals. And of course, the NCAA football rumors are always around. The Montana Gatorade […]

Texas Tech football is always looking to add talent to their team, and that’s what they just did with a 4-star tight end. On Dec. 11, tight end Matt Ludwig was released from his letter of intent at Michigan. A day later, he committed to Texas Tech, according to Hayes Fawcett of Rivals. “I never […]

It appears Texas Tech senior linebacker Jacob Rodriguez will need to clear more room in his trophy cabinet. On Wednesday night, he won the prestigious Lombardi Award, becoming the first Red Raider and the 52nd recipient since its inception in 1970. Presented by the Rotary Club of Houston, the Lombardi Award recognizes the nation’s top […]

Texas Tech football linebacker Jacob Rodriguez missed the final Heisman cut Monday. But he snatched one prominent college football award: The Bronko Nagurski. Brett McMurphy of On3/Rivals posted the accolade the LB won, which annually is handed to the nation’s top defensive player. Rodriguez now accomplishes this first in Lubbock: He’s the first Red Raiders […]

The conference championships have concluded. Now, teams will be looking towards their next steps. For 12 teams, it is the College Football Playoff, and for other top teams, it will be bowl games. As the conference championships saw some upsets, there are some changes in the College Football Top 25 Power Rankings.  1. Indiana Indiana […]

Behren Morton provided an update on his health status following the No. 5 Texas Tech Red Raiders’ 34-7 win over the No. 11 BYU Cougars in the Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday evening. Going into the matchup, Texas Tech has shined as one of the best teams in the country. They have made a […]

Texas Tech won today’s game vs. BYU in convincing fashion, making program history in the process. Despite being a founding member of the conference in the mid-1990s, before this afternoon’s 34-7 victory, the Red Raiders had never won a Big 12 football championship. In fact, Tech had only won one division title (a shared achievement […]

BYU head coach Kalani Sitake knows his team is firmly on the College Football Playoff bubble with another loss to Texas Tech in the Big 12 Championship Game. But despite his team’s 31-point loss dropping their record to 10-2, Sitake believes the Cougars still belong in the 12-team bracket. Sitake knows the five-score loss severely […]

The No. 4 Texas Tech Red Raiders earned a massive win over the No. 11 BYU Cougars in the Big 12 Championship. Now that the program is the conference champion, the team can focus on the College Football Playoff. After the victory, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes shared his excited reaction. Mahomes, who is […]

Patrick Mahomes voiced what everyone else was thinking during the 2025 Big 12 Championship Game. The Kansas City Chiefs star loves watching his team’s offense, but was in lockstep with every other college football fan lauding Texas Tech defensive coordinator Shiel Wood during the Red Raiders’ dominant performance against BYU. Texas Tech announced during the […]

The BYU Cougars went into halftime down 13-7 to the Texas Tech Red Raiders, as the team continues to fight for a potential spot in the College Football Playoff. Head coach Kalani Sitake is pulling all the stops, as he called a fake punt play in the second quarter. However, it failed miserably, and the […]

The No. 11 BYU Cougars face the No. 4 Texas Tech Red Raiders in the Big 12 Conference Championship, with the winner guaranteeing a spot in the College Football Playoff. With everything on the line, the Cougars managed to record the first points of the contest with an impressive opening-drive touchdown. That score snapped a […]

It is the Big 12 Championship Game as BYU faces Texas Tech. The winner of the game will be heading to the College Football Playoff. It will be a rematch of a regular-season tilt that Texas Tech won 29-7. As the two prepare to face off on Saturday, it is time to make bold predictions […]

Head coach Joey McGuire has spent the 2025 season reminding everyone that the Texas Tech football team can be a national player in the NIL era. On national shows, he has been blunt about how aggressively the Red Raiders attacked recruiting and the transfer portal, leaning on major donor Cody Campbell to upgrade the roster, […]

The 2025 Texas Tech football season has completely exceeded expectations. They are on the cusp of winning the Big 12 Championship game, and they are also knocking on the door of a College Football Playoff berth as one of the best teams in the country. The emergence of Texas Tech has been in large part […]

Rivalry weekend is over, and the regular season has come to a close. As some Top 25 teams fell, there is some shuffling in the rankings. Other teams spent the weekend solidifying their status as top teams. Meanwhile, the coaching carousel is spinning, causing some major shakeups for some teams. With all the movement, it […]

The regular season is in the rearview mirror, and the College Football Playoff picture is clearer than ever. Rivalry Week was devoid of chaos on Saturday after Texas A&M suffered its first loss of the season against Texas on Friday night. Oklahoma and Alabama both survived close calls late on Saturday, and Oregon rolled over […]

The Texas Tech football program is trying to wrap up a fabulous regular season with a win at West Virginia on Saturday. Texas Tech is headed to the Big 12 championship game, and the squad has a good shot at earning a College Football Playoff berth. Against West Virginia Saturday, the Red Raiders are expected […]

Week 13 is in the rearview in college football, and the College Football Playoff picture is clearer than ever. Just one weekend remains in the regular season with the top 10 all setting their eyes on the postseason. Saturday was uneventful in terms of upsets, but there were still plenty of results that could cause […]

The race for the 2025 Heisman Trophy is heating up. While the rest of the college football world is embracing the emergence of Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza and Ohio State’s Julian Sayin, Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez is starting to gain some steam heading into the final weeks of the regular season. One notable name […]

There are just two weeks left in the regular season for College Football. Ballots will go out to voters for the Heisman Trophy after the final regular season games, and are due back after the conference championships. There has become a clear frontrunner for the award, but other players are still in the running in […]

Obviously, acclaimed actor and Landman star Billy Bob Thornton is a football fan, as he features nods to the Big 12 in the second season, from programs like Texas Tech to Colorado to TCU. In a viral clip from Landman Season 2, two characters are seen discussing Big 12 mascots. Throton’s daughter even says that […]

There are just two weeks left in the college football season. The top five-ranked conference champions get a guaranteed trip to the College Football Playoffs. After Week 12, few spots have been decided in conference title games, and it is time to break down all the scenarios for each conference in their title game. The […]

Week 12 of the College Football season has come to an end, with upsets and near-upsets. With just two weeks left in the regular season, some teams have cemented their status as contenders, while other teams fell from that class this week. This has caused some major shakeups in the College Football Top 25 Power […]

When it comes to defensive players at the college football level, few are as exciting as Jacob Rodriguez, the do-it-all linebacker from Texas Tech who has forced his way into the Heisman conversation through his once-in-a-lifetime season in Lubbock. And in Week 12, Rodriguez strengthened that case even further with another exemplary showing, recording nine […]

Few teams have been a bigger surprise in the 2025 college football season than Texas Tech, which should continue flowing at a high rate in Week 12 against UCF. After listing several key players as on their injury report throughout the week, the Red Raiders confirmed that Behren Morton, Jacob Rodriguez and Lee Hunter are […]

It was a massive matchup in the Big 12 this past week, as Texas Tech defeated BYU 29-7. Texas Tech has moved to 9-1 on the year, and is one of the best teams in college football. The dominant fashion of the victory over BYU shows that the Red Raiders are going to be a […]

Texas Tech football’s recent success continues with a 29-7 win over the BYU Cougars on Saturday, which also contained another huge outing from star linebacker Jacob Rodriguez. With the Texas Tech football linebacker entering Heisman Trophy conversations, he would speak on the win over BYU and what it means. The victory over the No. 7 […]

Patrick Mahomes wants a Red Raider in New York. The Kansas City Chiefs star made that clear after watching Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez dominate in a 29-7 win over previously unbeaten BYU. “Get him to New York! @HeismanTrophy,” Mahomes posted on social media following the game, throwing his full support behind one of college […]

A linebacker has never won the coveted Heisman Trophy award. Robert Griffin III dropped a new, stunning endorsement Saturday: Texas Tech football linebacker Jacob Rodriquez, who dominated against BYU. The former walk-on compiled 14 tackles in handing the Cougars their first loss of 2025, leading the 29-7 romp in Lubbock. Rodriguez picked off Bear Bachmeier […]

The Heisman Trophy race suddenly has an interesting new candidate. Texas Tech football fans have been clamoring for star linebacker Jacob Rodriguez to be in the discussion, and the senior might have officially entered the conversation with another big game against BYU. Rodriguez entered Week 11 with 74 tackles, one sack and an FBS-leading seven […]

The Texas Tech Red Raiders football team received a surge of national spotlight Saturday afternoon when Kansas City Chiefs superstar Patrick Mahomes returned to Lubbock for ESPN’s College GameDay. The two-time NFL MVP and proud Red Raiders alum spoke candidly about the program’s rise under head coach Joey McGuire and its impressive 8-1 record, calling […]

Texas Tech football is one last-minute road loss away from a perfect record and first-place standing in the underrated Big 12 Conference. The Red Raiders are eyeing their first 10-win campaign since the late great Mike Leach roamed the sidelines in Lubbock and are one of only two programs that currently rank in the top-five […]

Texas Tech’s football team’s rise continued to gather steam this week. The Red Raiders debuted at No. 8 in the CFP for the first time in program history after a relentless 8-1 start and a statement at Kansas State, sliding into the top eight as November chaos rattled the rest of the board. It’s the […]

This weekend, a game between Texas Tech and BYU will go down in Lubbock, and former Red Raiders quarterback Patrick Mahomes will be a guest picker on ESPN College GameDay. The announcement was made on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. He will appear on the show on Nov. 8 to support his alma mater in their […]

BYU Cougars head coach Kalani Sitake isn’t happy about the Texas Tech Red Raiders ending their famous tortilla-throwing tradition. The Red Raiders announced that they would no longer allow fans to throw tortillas during kickoff due to new penalties imposed by the Big 12 Conference. Sitake has personal ties to Texas Tech through the late […]

The Big 12 has been lurking in the background as a conference this season while the SEC and the Big Ten take center stage, but it takes center stage on Saturday in Week 11. No. 7 BYU goes on the road to take on No. 8 Texas Tech in a battle between the top two […]

November chaos continued to reshape the playoff board, and our Week 11 projections reflect this while a handful of steady contenders simply held serve. In that shuffle, a loud riser emerged out of the Big 12 picture, one that now sits squarely in the top eight of ClutchPoints’ Playoff forecast. ESPN Insights highlighted the milestone […]