List of Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons
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The Texas Tech Red Raiders college football team competes 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 has played its home games at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas since 1947.[1]
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 to 1936, a name suggested by the wife of E. Y. Freeland, the first football coach, to reflect the influence of the Spanish Renaissance architecture on campus. In 1932, 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 the team has 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 7–6 loss to the West Virginia Mountaineers. Texas Tech suffered four more bowl losses before their first postseason win in the 1952 Sun Bowl.[2] Before withdrawing from the Border Conference in 1956, the Red Raiders won 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. The team remained in the SWC until the conference ceased operations in 1996.[3] Following the dissolution of the SWC, the university became a charter member in the South Division of the Big 12 Conference. Texas Tech is the only team in the Big 12 with a winning record each year since 1996, when the conference began.[3][A 1]
In each of its last thirteen seasons Tech has finished with a winning record, the fourth-longest such streak in the nation.[15][A 2] The Red Raiders have made 32 bowl game appearances, the 4th-most by a Big 12 team and tied with the Miami Hurricanes and Ole Miss Rebels for 17th-most of any university.[17]
Seasons
Conference champions† | Conference co-champions‡ | Division co-champions♦ | Bowl game berth^ | Shared standing T |
Notes
- ^ While in the Big 12 Conference:
Baylor's first losing season was in 1996.[4]
Colorado's first losing season was in 1997.[5]
Iowa State's first losing season was in 1996.[6]
Kansas' first losing season was in 1996.[7]
Kansas State's first losing season was in 2004.[8]
Missouri's first losing season was in 1996.[9]
Nebraska's first losing season was in 2007.[10]
Oklahoma's first losing season was in 1996.[11]
Oklahoma State's first losing season was in 1996.[12]
Texas' first losing season was in 1997.[13]
Texas A&M's first losing season was in 2003.[14] - ^ The Red Raiders moved to fourth in 2008 when the Michigan Wolverines had a losing season.[16]
- ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[22]
- ^ 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.[23]
- ^ 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. According to Big 12 rules, the fifth tie-breaker dictated that the team with the highest BCS Ranking, released on November 30 of that year, would represent the South Division in the championship game. Coaches, journalists and computer rankings, which are the major components of the BCS ranking formula, decided the division representative. During the final week of the Big 12 regular season, Oklahoma defeated a ranked Oklahoma State team and Texas defeated an unranked Texas A&M team, delivering a higher computer rating to Oklahoma and influencing BCS voters.[24][25]
References
- ^ "Cultivating the Home Field Advantage, A Memoir Revisited". Texas Tech University. Retrieved 2009-12-11.
- ^ a b "Texas Tech Bowl History". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ a b c d "Texas Tech Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Baylor Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Colorado Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Iowa State Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Kansas Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Kansas State Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Missouri Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Nebraska Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Oklahoma Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Oklahoma State Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Texas Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Texas A&M Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ Williams, Don (2007-09-09). "Texas Tech-SMU game facts". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ^ "Michigan Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
- ^ "Team Records - Most Bowl Appearances". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
- ^ "Texas Tech Historical Data". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Texas Tech Championships". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Football Record Book" (PDF). Big 12 Conference. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
- ^ "Texas Tech In the Polls". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2009-09-28. Retrieved 2008-09-29.
- ^ "Tiebreaker Procedures". Big 12 Conference. Retrieved 2009-12-11.
- ^ Weiss, Dick. "Sooners win Big 12 South thanks to BCS computers:". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
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