1. Who is the opponent? The Baylor Bears (1-4, 1-4) come to Lubbock after what’s seemingly been a decade of playing at Jerry World. Baylor’s lone win was to start the season where they wholloped Kansas, 47-14, but have lost 4 straight, including 27-21 to West Virginia, 27-16 to Texas, 33-23, to TCU, and 38-31 to Iowa State just last weekend.

2. What is the time and date of game? November 14th at 3:00 p.m.

3. How do I watch or stream this game? The game is on FS1 with the game being streamed on FOXSportsGO.

4. What’s the opening line? Via OddsShark has Texas Tech opening as -1.5 point favorite.

5. Scattershooting, while wondering what ever happened to . . . Michael Johnson. There may not have been a human being who looked more effortlessly to me (personally) and being the fastest man alive at the time than Michael Johnson. And in some respects, Johnson is still the fastest man for the united States, holding records in the 200, 300, and 400 metres. Johnson is the only man to ever win the 200 and 400 in the same Olympics, and he did it at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and then won the 400 at the Sydney Olympics in 200. I’ll never forget those gold shoes and the way he flipping smoked the field (lane 3 in the 200m and lane 4 in the 400m):

longtime LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda is the 1st year head coach for Baylor. Aranda spent a couple of years with matt Wells at Utah State and most recently was leading last year’s LSU defense to a National Championship (the offense was pretty good too) . . . Joey McGuire is the associate head coach and a holdover from the Matt Rhule coaching staff. McGuire was a longtime assistant coach at Cedar Hill before joining Baylor when Rhule was hired . . . Larry Fedora, the former North Carolina head coach, is Baylor’s offensive coordinator and he certainly has skins on the fall, but I think it’s been a tough go at it thus far this year . . . Ron Roberts is the defensive coordinator (no, not the weather guy) and arrived from Louisiana-Lafayette and was at Southeastern Louisiana before that. So not a huge resume, but Aranda’s defensive chops are unmatched as far as I’m concerned . . . I can honestly state that other than Joe Wickline, I didn’t know who any of the assistant coaches are, which maybe says something about me and Aranda’s staff . . .