List of Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons
This is a list of Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons since the team's inception in 1925. The list documents season-by-season records, and conference records from 1932–1956 and 1960–present. The Texas Tech Red Raiders football team compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A), representing Texas Tech University in the South Division of the Big 12 Conference.
Texas Tech (then known as Texas Technological College) fielded its first intercollegiate football team during the 1925 season. The team was known as the "Matadors" from 1925–1936, a name suggested by the wife of the first football coach to reflect the influence of the campus' Spanish Renaissance architecture. In 1932, the Texas Tech joined the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association, also known as the Border Conference. The school's short-lived Matadors moniker was replaced officially in 1937 with "Red Raiders", the nickname they have today. The same year, the team won its first conference championship and was invited to the Sun Bowl. The game was played on January 1, 1938, and resulted in a 6–7 loss to the West Virginia Mountaineers.[1] Texas Tech suffered four more bowl losses before getting their first postseason win in the 1952 Sun Bowl.[1] Before withdrawing from the Border Conference in 1956, the Red Raiders won a total of eight conference championships and one co-championship, the most held by a Border Conference member.
In 1960, Texas Tech was admitted to the Southwest Conference (SWC). The Red Raiders won conference co-championships in 1976 and 1994.[2] The team remained in the SWC until the conference ceased operations 1996. Following the dissolution of the SWC, the university became a charter member of the Big 12 Conference. The Red Raiders have the distinction of being the only one in the Big 12 to have a winning season each year since the conference was created in 1996.[3]
Described as a program on the rise, the Red Raiders, coached by Mike Leach since 2000, earned 56 wins from the 2000 through the 2006 season. During the same period, only three other Big 12 teams had more victories—Oklahoma, Texas, and Nebraska.[4] In each of its last thirteen seasons Tech has finished with a winning record, the fourth-longest such streak in the nation.[5][6] The Red Raiders have made 32 bowl appearances, which is 19th most of any university.[7]
Seasons
| Conference Champions | Conference Co-Champions | Division Co-Champions | Bowl game berth |
| Season | Head coach [8] |
Conference [9] |
Season results [8] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] |
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Final ranking | |||||||||
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| Final standings | Wins | Losses | Ties [A 1] |
AP Poll | Coaches' Poll | |||||||||
| Conference | Division [A 2] | |||||||||||||
| Texas Tech Matadors | ||||||||||||||
| 1925 | E. Y. Freeland | Independent | 6 | 1 | 2 | — | ||||||||
| 1926 | Independent | 6 | 1 | 3 | — | |||||||||
| 1927 | Independent | 5 | 4 | 0 | — | |||||||||
| 1928 | Independent | 4 | 4 | 1 | — | |||||||||
| 1929 | Grady Higginbotham | Independent | 1 | 7 | 2 | — | ||||||||
| 1930 | Pete Cawthon | Independent | 3 | 6 | 0 | — | ||||||||
| 1931 | Independent | 6 | 3 | 0 | — | |||||||||
| 1932 | Border Conference | — | 10 | 2 | 0 | — | ||||||||
| 1933 | Border Conference | — | 8 | 1 | 2 | — | ||||||||
| 1934 | Border Conference | — | 7 | 2 | 1 | — | ||||||||
| 1935 | Border Conference | — | 5 | 4 | 1 | — | ||||||||
| 1936 | Border Conference | — | 5 | 4 | 1 | — | ||||||||
| Texas Tech Red Raiders | ||||||||||||||
| 1937 | Pete Cawthon | Border Conference | 1st | 8 | 4 | 0 | Lost Sun Bowl to West Virginia Mountaineers, 7–6 | — | ||||||
| 1938 | Border Conference | — | 10 | 1 | 0 | Lost Cotton Bowl Classic to Saint Mary's (CA), 20–13 | 11 | |||||||
| 1939 | Border Conference | — | 5 | 5 | 1 | — | — | |||||||
| 1940 | Border Conference | — | 9 | 1 | 1 | — | — | |||||||
| 1941 | Dell Morgan | Border Conference | — | 9 | 2 | 0 | — | — | ||||||
| 1942 | Border Conference | T–1st | 4 | 5 | 1 | Lost Sun Bowl to Tulsa Golden Hurricanes, 6–0 | — | |||||||
| 1943 | Border Conference | — | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | — | |||||||
| 1944 | Border Conference | — | 4 | 7 | 0 | — | — | |||||||
| 1945 | Border Conference | — | 3 | 5 | 2 | — | — | |||||||
| 1946 | Border Conference | — | 8 | 3 | 0 | — | — | |||||||
| 1947 | Border Conference | 1st | 6 | 5 | 0 | — | — | |||||||
| 1948 | Border Conference | 1st | 7 | 3 | 0 | Lost Sun Bowl to Miami Redskins, 6–0 | — | |||||||
| 1949 | Border Conference | 1st | 7 | 5 | 0 | Lost Raisin Bowl to San Jose State Spartans, 20-13 | — | |||||||
| 1950 | Border Conference | — | 3 | 8 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1951 | DeWitt Weaver | Border Conference | 1st | 7 | 4 | 0 | Won Sun Bowl against Pacific Tigers, 25-14 | — | — | |||||
| 1952 | Border Conference | — | 3 | 7 | 1 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1953 | Border Conference | 1st | 11 | 1 | 0 | Won Gator Bowl against Auburn Tigers, 35-13 | 12 | 12 | ||||||
| 1954 | Border Conference | 1st | 7 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1955 | Border Conference | 1st | 7 | 3 | 1 | Lost Sun Bowl against Maryland Terrapins, 21-14 | — | — | ||||||
| 1956 | Border Conference | — | 2 | 7 | 1 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1957 | Independent | 2 | 8 | 0 | — | — | — | |||||||
| 1958 | Independent | 3 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | |||||||
| 1959 | Independent | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | |||||||
| 1960 | Southwest Conference | 6th | 3 | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1961 | J. T. King | Southwest Conference | 7th | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | |||||
| 1962 | Southwest Conference | 8th | 1 | 9 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1963 | Southwest Conference | 6th | 5 | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1964 | Southwest Conference | T–4th | 6 | 4 | 1 | Lost Sun Bowl to Georgia Bulldogs, 7-0 | — | — | ||||||
| 1965 | Southwest Conference | 2nd | 8 | 3 | 0 | Lost Gator Bowl to Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, 31-21 | — | 10 | ||||||
| 1966 | Southwest Conference | 7th | 4 | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1967 | Southwest Conference | 2nd | 6 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1968 | Southwest Conference | 4th | 5 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1969 | Southwest Conference | T–3rd | 5 | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1970 | Jim Carlen | Southwest Conference | 3rd | 8 | 4 | 0 | Lost Sun Bowl to Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, 17-9 | — | — | |||||
| 1971 | Southwest Conference | 7th | 4 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1972 | Southwest Conference | T–2nd | 8 | 4 | 0 | Lost Sun Bowl to North Carolina Tar Heels, 32-28 | — | — | ||||||
| 1973 | Southwest Conference | 2nd | 11 | 1 | 0 | Won Gator Bowl against Tennessee Volunteers, 28-19 | 11 | 11 | ||||||
| 1974 | Southwest Conference | 6th | 6 | 4 | 2 | Tied Peach Bowl with Vanderbilt Commodores, 6-6 | — | — | ||||||
| 1975 | Steve Sloan | Southwest Conference | 4th | 6 | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | |||||
| 1976 | Southwest Conference | T-1st | 10 | 2 | 0 | Lost Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl to Nebraska Cornhuskers, 27-24 | 13 | 13 | ||||||
| 1977 | Southwest Conference | T-4th | 7 | 5 | 0 | Lost Tangerine Bowl to Florida State Seminoles, 40-17 | — | — | ||||||
| 1978 | Rex Dockery | Southwest Conference | 4th | 7 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | |||||
| 1979 | Southwest Conference | 7th | 3 | 6 | 2 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1980 | Southwest Conference | T-6th | 5 | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1981 | Jerry Moore | Southwest Conference | 9th | 1 | 9 | 1 | — | — | — | |||||
| 1982 | Southwest Conference | T-6th | 4 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1983 | Southwest Conference | 6th | 3 | 7 | 1 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1984 | Southwest Conference | 8th | 4 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1985 | Southwest Conference | 7th | 4 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1986 | David McWilliams | Southwest Conference | 4th | 7 | 5 | 0 | McWilliams resigned before bowl game | — | — | |||||
| Spike Dykes | Lost Independence Bowl to Ole Miss Rebels, 20-17 | |||||||||||||
| 1987 | Southwest Conference | 4th | 6 | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1988 | Southwest Conference | 3rd | 5 | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1989 | Southwest Conference | 3rd | 9 | 3 | 0 | Won All-American Bowl against Duke Blue Devils, 49-21 | 19 | 16 | ||||||
| 1990 | Southwest Conference | T-4th | 4 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1991 | Southwest Conference | T-2nd | 6 | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1992 | Southwest Conference | T-2nd | 5 | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1993 | Southwest Conference | T-2nd | 6 | 6 | 0 | Lost John Hancock Bowl to Oklahoma Sooners, 41–10 | — | — | ||||||
| 1994 | Southwest Conference | T-1st | 6 | 6 | 0 | Lost Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic to USC Trojans, 55-14 | — | — | ||||||
| 1995 | Southwest Conference | T-2nd | 9 | 3 | 0 | Won Copper Bowl against Air Force Falcons, 55-41 | 23 | 20 | ||||||
| 1996 | Big 12 Conference | — | 2nd | 7 | 5 | Lost Builders Square Alamo Bowl to Iowa Hawkeyes, 27-0 | — | — | ||||||
| 1997 | Big 12 Conference | — | T-2nd | 6 | 5 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1998 | Big 12 Conference | — | 3rd | 7 | 5 | Lost Sanford Independence Bowl to Ole Miss Rebels, 35-18 | — | — | ||||||
| 1999 | Big 12 Conference | — | T-2nd | 6 | 5 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 2000 | Mike Leach | Big 12 Conference | — | 4th | 7 | 6 | Lost Galleryfurniture.com Bowl to East Carolina Pirates, 40-27 | — | — | |||||
| 2001 | Big 12 Conference | — | T-3rd | 7 | 5 | Lost Sylvania Alamo Bowl to Iowa Hawkeyes, 19-16 | — | — | ||||||
| 2002 | Big 12 Conference | — | T-3rd | 9 | 5 | Won Mazda Tangerine Bowl against Clemson Tigers, 55–15 | — | — | ||||||
| 2003 | Big 12 Conference | — | 4th | 8 | 5 | Won EV1.net Houston Bowl against Navy Midshipmen, 38–14 | — | — | ||||||
| 2004 | Big 12 Conference | — | T-3rd | 8 | 4 | Won Pacific Life Holiday Bowl against California Golden Bears, 45-31 | 18 | 17 | ||||||
| 2005 | Big 12 Conference | — | T-2nd | 9 | 3 | Lost AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic to Alabama Crimson Tide, 13-10 | 20 | 19 | ||||||
| 2006 | Big 12 Conference | — | 4th | 8 | 5 | Won Insight Bowl against Minnesota Golden Gophers, 44–41 (OT) | — | — | ||||||
| 2007 | Big 12 Conference | — | T-3rd | 9 | 4 | Won Konica Minolta Gator Bowl against Virginia Cavaliers, 31–28 | 22 | 23 | ||||||
| 2008 | Big 12 Conference | — | T-1st [A 3] |
11 | 2 | Lost AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic to Ole Miss Rebels, 47-34 | 12 | 12 | ||||||
| Total | 492 | 368 | 31 | (only includes regular season games) | ||||||||||
| 10 | 21 | 1 | (only includes bowl games; 32 appearances) | |||||||||||
| 502 | 389 | 32 | (all games) | |||||||||||
Notes
- ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[28]
- ^ The Big 12 Conference introduced divisional play in its first year in 1996; the divisional winners advance to the Big 12 Championship Game to determine the conference champion.[29]
- ^ Oklahoma, Texas, Texas Tech all finished the season with identical 7–1 conference records, creating a three way tie for the South division championship. Under Big 12 tiebreaker rules, ties are normally broken by head-to-head matchups but this case was unique as Texas beat Oklahoma 45–35, Oklahoma beat Texas Tech 65–21, and Texas Tech beat Texas 39–33 which made breaking the three-way tie impossible using head to head games. Because the first four tie-breakers did not dictate a winner, Big 12 rules dictate that the fifth tie-breaker is the team with the highest BCS Ranking, based on the standings released on November 30th of that year, would represent the South Division, meaning coaches, journalists and computer rankings, which are the major components of the BCS ranking formula decided the division winner. During the final week of the Big 12 regular season, Oklahoma defeated a tough Oklahoma State and Texas defeated a much softer Texas A&M delivering a higher computer rating to Oklahoma and influencing BCS voters.[30][31][32]
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