Ask the Expert: Da Bears

The bowl game is right around the corner, as in in two days. Texas Tech will lead off the Power Five bowl slate with a battle in Shreveport against the California Golden Bears. With something as big as the Independence Bowl on the line, we found an expert to get us all ready for the… read more

Texas Tech Rebuilds in the Trenches

Two massive, figuratively and literally, additions to Texas Tech in a an area of need. We all know that the offensive line play this season was mediocre or poor all year. Tahj was running through contact at the line regularly, and quarterbacks did not have the time to develop Kittley’s route trees. So this offseason… read more

Instant Reaction: Texas Tech holds off scrappy Oral Roberts

It was not pretty, and there was a very slow start, but the Red Raiders survived the challenge from ORU winning 82-76 at home. Oral Roberts is a tough squad, and they scared but Texas A&M and Kansas State, so the Red Raiders knew this was going to be a fight. And a fight it… read more

How To Watch: Texas Tech battles Oral Roberts

Texas Tech (6-2) returns home again to battle against Oral Roberts. Tech is reeling from the loss of Cambridge, who suffered a devastating knee injury and will be out for the season. Oral Roberts (4-4) is having a tough year, dropping matchups with UT Arlington and Missouri State. Against Texas A&M, a team Tech beat… read more

Opt-in or Opt-Out

Texas Tech, like all schools, has players who have already entered the portal or opted-out of the bowl game otherwise. Let me clear here first, this article is not talking about the guys who are portal bound. If I was planning on leaving a school and was actively looking for my next home the only… read more

Cotton Club Crew #27: Tahj Time Returns

Tahj Brooks has done the improbable once again, he has announced his return to Texas Tech. This is a huge, massive, gigantic, insert adjective here moment for the program. Tahj is one of the best running backs in all of college football, and he immediately uplifts your offense in a critical year three. Macon breaks… read more

Red Raiders set the new minimum expectation

Texas Tech has one job every year, the minimum requirement. Make a bowl season. However, since Mike Leach departed the program making a bowl game has proven far more difficult than it should for a program like Tech. Kingsbury missed numerous bowl games, and Matt Wells failed to make one at all until Sonny Cumbie… read more

Cotton Club Crew #26: Bowl Season Bound

The guy’s are back for their second episode of the week, reacting to the bowl matchup. Texas Tech will take a hop, skip, and a jump to the Independence Bowl to take on the Cal Golden Bears. A rematch of the 2004 Holiday Bowl, though with far less prestige or interest or frankly niceness of… read more

Fixing Bowl Season

The story of the season is of course the CFP rankings being announced and everyone having to accept a new reality with Florida State being left out. Never before had an unbeaten Power Five member been left out of the playoff, and the outrage has been overwhelming. Now, with the four-team playoff coming to an… read more

Cotton Club Crew #25: A Season in Review

Well, where we last left off the football program was frankly embarrassed in Austin. I was there, it was cold, miserable, and DKR is a hellhole of a venue. The play on the field was the only thing worse than the conditions way up high in the stands. The guys talk about that game, what… read more

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