Remarkably, the Texas Tech football has already come to its second-to-last game of the regular season. The 2024 season has flown by and today’s trip to Stillwater, Oklahoma will be the final road game of the year.
Of course, playing at Oklahoma State has not been an easy proposition for the Red Raiders in recent years. In fact, Tech has dropped nine of its last ten games at Boone Pickens Stadium.
Interestingly, the only win the Red Raiders have secured in that span was in 2018. That year, a freshman QB named Alan Bowman guided Tech to a 41-17 win in what was the road start of his college career.
Now, remarkably, Bowman is still in college and he’s the starting QB for the Cowboys. However, he hasn’t been very impressive. Thus far, he’s completing just 60.6% of his passes and he has thrown for 16 TDs and 12 interceptions.
In fact, during the BYU game on October 18, he was benched for Garrett Rangel but an injury to Rangel forced Bowman right back into action that night and he’s remained the starting quarterback since.
Bowman’s struggles have been a huge reason why the Cowboys are 3-7 overall and 0-7 in Big 12 play. It will be the first losing season for that program since 2005, the first year of head coach Mike Gundy’s tenure.
Thus, if there was ever a day for Tech to walk out of Stillwater with a win, it would seem like today would be it. Of course, strange things seem to happen to the Red Raiders when they are favorites so nothing can be guaranteed.
It will be interesting to see what we get out of the Red Raiders today. Coming off of an open week after falling out of the Big 12 race thanks to their loss to Colorado two weeks ago, will they play with the fire needed to win another road game and ensure that the program has a winning road record for the first time in the Joey McGuire era? Here’s hoping so.
Kickoff: 2:30 p.m. Central
TV: ESPN+
Play-by-Play: James Westling
Analyst: Jay Sonnhalter
Producer: John Wilson
Radio: TEXAS TECH SPORTS NETWORK
Play-by-Play: Brian Jensen
Analyst: John Harris
Sideline Reporter: Chris Level
SiriusXM (local): Channel 384
Mobile App: Varsity Network (Texas Tech)
Texas Tech all-time record: 23-24-3
First meeting: 1935 (14-0 Texas Tech in Lubbock)
Most recent meeting: 2022 (41-31 Oklahoma State in Stillwater)
Odds courtesy of FanDuel.com.
Favorite |
Moneyline |
Over/Under |
---|---|---|
Texas Tech -4.5 |
Texas Tech -184 |
65.5 |
Game notes courtesy of TexasTech.com.