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38 BOWL APPEARANCES 11 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS 567 ALL-TIME VICTORIES 2018 SCHEDULE/RESULTS TEXAS TECH 1 GAME 8 IOWA STATE Overall: 5-2 | Big 12: 3-1 | H: 3-1 | A: 2-0 | N: 0-1 RED RAIDERS CYCLONES SEPTEMBER • (3-2) 5-2 1 vs. Ole Miss (Houston) L, 27-47 ESPN 3-1 Big 12 8 LAMAR W, 77-0 FSN AT 15 HOUSTON W, 63-49 FOX 22 at #15 Oklahoma State* W, 41-17 FS1 3-3 29 #12 WEST VIRGINIA* L, 34-42 ESPN2 2-1 Big 12 OCTOBER • (2-0) Oct. 27 • 11 a.m. • Ames, Iowa • Jack Trice Stadium (61,500) • ESPN2 • Texas Tech Sports Network 11 at TCU* W, 17-14 ESPN TEXAS TECH IOWA STATE 20 KANSAS* W, 48-16 FS1 Record 5-2 Overall; 3-1 Big 12 Record 3-3 Overall; 2-1 Big 12 27 at Iowa State* 11 a.m. ESPN2 Rankings AP: RV | Coaches: RV Rankings AP: NR | Coaches: NR NOVEMBER • (0-0) Last Game Def. Kansas, 48-16 Last Game Def. West Virginia, 30-14 3 OKLAHOMA* TBD TBD Streak Won 2 Streak Won 2 10 TEXAS* TBD TBD Head Coach Kliff Kingsbury Head Coach Matt Campbell 17 at Kansas State* TBD TBD Career Record 35-35 (6th Season) Career Record 49-32 (7th Season) 24 vs. Baylor* (Arlington) TBD TBD Record at Texas Tech Same Record at Iowa State 14-17 (3rd Season) DECEMBER • (0-0) Record vs. Iowa State 3-2 Record vs. Texas Tech 2-0 1 Big 12 Championship TBD TBD SERIES HISTORY SATURDAY STORYLINES Overall Tech leads 11-5 RED RAIDERS EYEING BOWL ELIGIBILITY In Lubbock Tech leads 7-2 n Texas Tech will look to become bowl eligible for the 39th time in In Ames Tech leads 4-3 program history Saturday when the Red Raiders face Iowa State at Jack Neutral Site No meetings Trice Stadium in Ames. With a win, Tech will reach bowl eligibility in just Under Kingsbury Tech leads 3-2 eight games, its earliest point since winning each of the first six games Current Streak Lost 2 of Kliff Kingsbury’s debut season in 2013. Last Meeting ISU 31, Tech 13 (2017) n The Red Raiders have been among the most active teams in the country pertaining to bowl appearances as Texas Tech ranks 20th na- TV: ESPN2 tionally and third among Big 12 programs, trailing only Texas and Okla- homa. Tech is aiming for its 16th bowl appearance since the start of the n Play-by-Play: Anish Shroff 2000 season alone. n Analyst: Ahmad Brooks n Field Analyst: Roddy Jones TECH LOOKS TO EXTEND ROAD STREAK n The Red Raiders enter this weekend riding a three-game Big 12 road RADIO: TEXAS TECH SPORTS NETWORK winning streak that dates back to the 2017 regular-season finale at n Play-by-Play: Brian Jensen Texas. That streak currently ranks as the longest for Texas Tech in true Big 12 road games since the Red Raiders topped Kansas State, Texas n Analyst: John Harris A&M and Kansas during the 2008 season. n Sideline Reporter: Chris Level n Over the course of its three-game Big 12 road winning streak, op- n Engineer: Steve Pitts ponents are averaging only 18 points per game and 395 yards of total n Satellite Radio: Sirius 137 / XM 200 offense against the Red Raiders. n National Radio: None n Texas Tech is 4-3 all-time against the Cyclones in Ames with wins in n Mobile App: TuneIn (search Texas Tech) two of the last three visits to Jack Trice Stadium. #806D STELLAR TO START BIG 12 PLAY SOCIAL MEDIA: #WreckEm n The Texas Tech defense has been nothing short of outstanding n Twitter: @TexasTechFB through the first four games of Big 12 play as the Red Raiders have only n Hashtag: #WreckEm / #TexasTech allowed 89 points, the fewest of any conference team during that span. n Instagram: @TexasTech_FB The Red Raiders have surrendered 20 or fewer points in three of their n Facebook: TexasTechFootball four conference games thus far, all victories. n n SnapChat: TexasTech_FB Texas Tech has been boosted by its run defense as the Red Raiders are allowing only 113.8 yards per game on the ground in league play, which narrowly trails Oklahoma for the conference lead. Overall, Tech HONORING SEÑOR SACK Texas Tech will honor the memory of the ranks 36th nationally and third in the Big 12, averaging 134.3 rushing Red Raider great Gabe Rivera through- yards per game. out the 2018 season. Rivera, one of five NUMBERS TO KNOW members of the prestigious Texas Tech Ring of Honor, passed away in his home- town of San Antonio on July 16. 307 76.2% 30.8% Number of receiving yards Antoine After forcing three red zone turnovers Opponents are only converting 30.8 Known by fans as “Señor Sack” throughout his career, Rive- Wesley needs over the final five games the past two weeks, Texas Tech now percent of third-down attempts this ra compiled 321 career tackles, including 34 that went for a of the regular season in order to tie ranks 28th nationally and third in the season, which ranks 20th nationally loss, over his four-year career from 1979-82. He was inducted Michael Crabtree for 10th all-time on Big 12 with a 76.2 red zone defensive and second in the Big 12. The Red into the National Football Foundation’s College Football Hall of the Texas Tech single-season chart. percentage. This is the highest the Red Raiders ranked 92nd in the country Fame in 2012 and the Texas Tech Ring of Honor in 2014. Wesley ranks third nationally with 858 Raiders have ranked in the category and last among Big 12 members in the receiving yards this year. under Kliff Kingsbury. category a year ago. #WreckEm 2018 TEXAS TECH FOOTBALL | WEEK 9: IOWA STATE ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS SUCCESS ON THE ROAD BRIEFLY... n Texas Tech will be looking to extend its three-game Big 12 n Texas Tech is 5-2 in 11 a.m. road games under head coach MATT DOWDY road winning streak that dates back to the 2017 regular-sea- Kliff Kingsbury and 8-3 in early starts before noon since 2008. Primary Contact C: 806-928-5190 son finale against Texas. That streak, as it stands now, is the n Texas Tech has held each of its last two opponents - Kan- O: 806-834-4529 longest by the Red Raiders since defeating Kansas State, Tex- sas and TCU - to less than 20 points, marking the first time the [email protected] as A&M and No. 19 Kansas away from home in 2008. Red Raiders have done so in back-to-back Big 12 games since n Texas Tech has not previously won four-consecutive Big 12 facing the same two teams to start league play in 2013. road games since the 1996-97 seasons when the Red Raid- n The Red Raiders kept both TCU and Kansas out of the end TY PARKER ers topped Kansas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Baylor (1997). zone via the ground game the last two weeks, marking the first Assistant Director It represents the longest Big 12 road winning streak in school time since the 2001-02 seasons where Texas Tech has not C: 806-928-8476 history. allowed a running touchdown in back-to-back Big 12 games. O: 806-834-2769 n Texas Tech has won three or more Big 12 road games only Tech did not surrender a rushing touchdown in the 2001 league [email protected] one additional time, which came during the 1997-98 cam- finale versus Oklahoma and then shut out No. 23 Texas A&M to paigns where the Red Raiders topped Texas, Oklahoma State start conference play the following year. PRESTON JORDAN and Iowa State. n Texas Tech limited Kansas to only 98 rushing yards a week Post-Grad Intern n In addition, Texas Tech has won four-consecutive Big 12 ago, a season low for opponents and the fewest for an op- C: 806-341-0132 games away from home as the Red Raiders also dropped Bay- posing team since West Virginia totaled just 44 yards on the O: 806-834-8059 lor, 38-24, in the 2017 Texas Farm Bureau Shootout at AT&T ground a year ago. [email protected] Stadium in Arlington. The victory started the four-game Big 12 n Texas Tech has limited opponents to less than 200 rushing winning away from home. yards in six of seven games this season. The Red Raiders are HEAD COACH KLIFF KINGSBURY n Texas Tech’s four-game Big 12 winning streak away from 24-5 under Kliff Kingsbury in such games and 5-1 this season. Alma Mater Texas Tech ’01 home (road and neutral site games) is tied with its streak from n The Red Raiders are averaging 43.9 points per game, which Record at Texas Tech 35-35 (6th Season) 1996-97 as the longest in school history. ranks seventh nationally and second in the Big 12. Texas Tech Career Record Same TEXAS TECH WINNING STREAKS IN BIG 12 ROAD GAMES is currently on pace to average at least 40 points per game Bowl Appearances Three (2013, 2015, 2017) Wins Dates/Opponents for the third time in a four-year stretch and the sixth time in 4 Oct. 5, 1996-Oct. 4, 1997 school history. TEAM INFORMATION Kansas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Baylor n Texas Tech has scored in 88.0 percent of its red zone ap- 2017 Overall Record 6-7 3 Nov.