In many ways, it feels like college football season has been a long time coming following the sports hiatus brought on by COVID-19. As Coach Wells pointed out, kickoff on Saturday will be six months to the day from when the Red Raiders were called off the court and the Big 12 basketball tournament was […]
By the Numbers: Texas Tech’s Season Outlook (Week 9)
Things aren’t looking great for Texas Tech at the moment. I’m not as panicked as others about the Red Raiders’ tournament chances, but barring an upset this week it appears things could get quite nervous. Right now I can’t help but look back at a litany of losses, ranging from what could have been to […]
By the Numbers: Texas Tech’s Season Outlook (Week 7)
After a dominant revenge performance against TCU, Tech dropped one in Stillwater last week. It was by no means a great loss (is there such a thing?), but I think some are overstating how bad it was. Tech was a three point favorite. And while there is a big gap in the win column between […]
By the Numbers: Texas Tech’s Season Outlook (Week 4)
Texas Tech had a rough go of it last week. The Red Raiders suffered arguably their worst loss of the season at TCU and missed an opportunity to bolster their resume against a good Kentucky team. There’s no let up this week, as Tech faces off against two more great opponents in West Virginia and […]
By the Numbers: Texas Tech’s Season Outlook (Week 3)
It was a great week for Texas Tech, as the Red Raiders went 2-0 against Iowa State and Kansas State. Kyler Edwards seemed to find himself offensively, helping the squad to a better offensive showing than the week before in losses to Baylor and West Virginia. Here’s what the analytics say heading into the third […]
By the Numbers: Texas Tech’s Season Outlook (Week 2)
We’ve got three conference games under our belts now, and with that comes some fresh data from a bunch of analytical sources. Believe it or not, Texas Tech’s standing improved in nearly every model despite the 1-2 start to Big 12 play. I’m not trying to feed anybody moral victories, and Texas Tech definitely has […]
By the Numbers: Texas Tech’s Season Outlook (Week 1)
Happy New Year, fellow Red Raiders! With conference play beginning on Saturday I wanted to start up a weekly post going over the analytical predictions for Texas Tech’s season. I’ll typically post early in the week to give an outlook for the Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday game as well as the game later that weekend. […]
By the Numbers: Texas Tech and Big 12 Outlook (Week 13)
Another tough loss on Saturday, as Texas Tech fell for the third time this year by a margin of 3 points or fewer. Matt Wells said it best in his postgame press conference when he said the team was knocking on the door, and eventually they’ll knock it down. The win-loss column this year is […]
By the Numbers: Texas Tech and Big 12 Outlook (Week 11)
Well, the easier part of the schedule was supposed to come for Texas Tech after they made it through the gauntlet of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor, and Iowa State. While Texas Tech’s loss to Kansas was bad enough, Kansas State was impressive in a win over Oklahoma, and TCU looked good beating Texas. The path […]
By the Numbers: Texas Tech and Big 12 Outlook (Week 9)
The worst part of the schedule is over with. Texas Tech’s last four games have been against four of the Big 12’s top half, and all were top 25-30ish teams nationally. Sprinkle in the fact that two were played on the road and one was a coulda-shoulda-woulda won type of game, and I’m choosing to […]