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BOWL APPEARANCES 1937 • 1938 • 1941 • 1947 • 1948 • 1951 • 1953 • 1955 1964 • 1965 • 1970 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1976 TEXAS TECH 1977 • 1986 • 1989 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 1996 • 1998 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 2007 • 2008 • 2009 FOOTBALL 2010 • 2012 2013 • 2015 2017 SCHEDULE EASTERN WASHINGTON Sept. 2 | Jones AT&T Stadium | TBD | TBD ARIZONA STATE Sept. 16 | Jones AT&T Stadium | TBD | TBD @HOUSTON Sept. 23 | TDECU Stadium | TBD | TBD OKLAHOMA STATE Sept. 30 | Jones AT&T Stadium | TBD | TBD @KANSAS Oct. 7 | Memorial Stadium | TBD | TBD SPRING STORYLINES @WEST VIRGINIA u Texas Tech begins the first step in preparations for the 2017 season Saturday Oct. 14 | Milan Puskar Stadium | TBD | TBD morning when the Red Raiders host their first spring practice inside Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders will host 12 practices, a pair of open scrimmages and IOWA STATE the annual Spring Game between March and April. Oct. 21 | Jones AT&T Stadium | TBD | TBD u Texas Tech fans throughout the state of Texas will have a chance to see the Red Raiders in action this spring as the program will host open scrimmages in both @OKLAHOMA Midland and Lubbock as well as its Spring Game which will be held April 1 at The Oct. 28 | OU Memorial Stadium | TBD | TBD Star in Frisco. The Midland scrimmage is slated for March 25 at Grande Communi- cations Stadium while “Saturday Night Lights” in Lubbock is set for April 8 inside KANSAS STATE Jones AT&T Stadium. Nov. 4 | Jones AT&T Stadium | TBD | TBD u Texas Tech will utilize its new playing surface at Jones AT&T Stadium this Saturday as construction crews recently installed a new FieldTurf product. Fans will notice vs. BAYLOR a few slight changes in the new surface as the size of the Double T at midfield will Nov. 11 | AT&T Stadium | TBD | TBD be enlarged to cover the entire distance between the hash marks while the “Texas Tech” and “Red Raiders” painted in the endzones will be in a new vertical font. TCU u The phrase “Earn the Double T” will be popular from the Tech coaching staff and Jonathan Giles returns for his junior campaign after a breakout season in 2016 where he led Nov. 18 | Jones AT&T Stadium | TBD | TBD players this spring as the iconic logo has been banned from the Football Training the team with 69 receptions for 1,158 yards Facility. Kliff Kingsbury and his staff stripped the logo from all workout gear and and 13 touchdowns. The performance placed @TEXAS helmets, insisting the Red Raiders earn back the right to wear the Double T after Giles among Tech’s all-time leaders in sin- Nov. 24 | Darrel K Royal Stadium | TBD | TBD a disappointing 2016 season. gle-season receiving yards and touchdowns. u The Red Raiders will have over 80 players on the roster participating in spring BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP practices thanks in part to 12 mid-year enrollees. Texas Tech’s group of 12 mid-year enrollees marks the most in the Big 12 and TBD | AT&T Stadium | TBD | FOX the most in Kliff Kingsbury’s tenure. u Game times are dictated by network television. In most cases, game times are an- Texas Tech brings back the bulk of its 2016 roster this spring highlighted by nine starters returning on offense and seven on the nounced anywhere between 6-14 days in advance. Texas Tech’s slate of non-confer- defensive side of the ball. In all, Texas Tech returns 79 percent of its overall scoring from a year ago. ence games will likely have start times/TV designations announced later this spring u The Red Raiders’ now sophomore class received quite a bit of experience as freshmen in 2016 as Texas Tech easily led the country or summer. with 4,429 snaps played by true freshmen, according to research by Pro Football Focus. MARCH 25 - MIDLAND APRIL 1 - THE STAR IN FRISCO APRIL 8 - LUBBOCK The Red Raiders will travel to Grande Communications Stadium Texas Tech will be the first collegiate football program to host “Saturday Night Lights” returns to Jones AT&T Stadium on April in Midland for the fifth-consecutive year on March 25. The an- an event at The Star in Frisco on April 1 when the Red Raid- 8 as the Red Raiders will close the spring in front of their home- nual trip to Midland draws thousands of Red Raider fans in the ers hold their annual Spring Game inside the Ford Center. The town fans. The scrimmage will be the finale of the best-of- Permian Basin, one of the largest areas of Texas Tech alumni in state-of-the art complex serves as the world headquarters and three series between the offense and defense. The event is free the state. In addition to the open scrimmage, the Red Raider practice facility for the Dallas Cowboys. The Spring Game is slat- to all fans and will feature an autograph session immediately baseball team will also travel to Midland on April 18 to face ed for a 3 p.m. start inside the Ford Center, a 12,000 seat indoor following the scrimmage. Texas Tech will host a “Pick Your Seat” New Mexico State at Security Bank Ballpark. stadium that opened in 2016 as part of The Star headquarters. event prior to the scrimmage as well. #WreckEm TEXAS TECH SPRING PROSPECTUS 2016 BIG 12 STANDINGS RED RAIDERS RETURN BULK OF STARTERS FROM 2016 CONF PCT. OVERALL STK u The Red Raiders bring back the bulk of their roster from a year ago as 16 starters return on both sides of the ball. The list includes Oklahoma 9-0 1.000 11-2 W10 nine returning starters on offense and then seven on defense. Oklahoma State 7-2 .778 10-3 W1 West Virginia 7-2 .778 10-3 L1 u Offensively, Texas Tech returns the bulk of their scoring from a year ago as its top three running backs - sophomore Da’Leon Kansas State 6-3 .667 9-4 W4 Ward, junior Demarcus Felton and senior Justin Stockton - as well as its top four receivers - juniors Keke Coutee and Jonathan TCU 4-5 .444 6-7 L2 Giles and seniors Cameron Batson and Dylan Cantrell - will all be back in scarlet and black this spring. In all, Texas Tech returns Baylor 3-6 .333 7-6 W1 79 percent of its overall scoring from a year ago. TRUE FRESHMEN PARTICIPATION IN 2016 Texas 3-7 .333 5-7 L3 u The trio of Ward, Felton and Stockton accounted for 75 percent of Texas Tech’s Name Position Games Played Texas Tech 3-6 .333 5-7 W1 rushing yards a year ago after totaling 936 yards on the ground as a group. Erik Baughman P 1 Iowa State 2-7 .222 3-9 L1 Ward boasted 428 rushing yards and three touchdowns, becoming the first Jordyn Brooks LB 12 Kansas 1-8 .111 2-10 L1 Red Raider true freshman to lead the team in rushing since Shaud Williams Travis Bruffy OL 12 2016 SCHEDULE/RESULTS in 1999. Felton, meanwhile, added 354 yards and three touchdowns while Douglas Coleman DB 11 Stockton chipped in 178 rushing yards and a touchdown to go along with 220 Kevin Moore DB 11 STEPHEN F. AUSTIN - W, 69-17 yards and a pair of touchdowns through the air. Johnathan Picone LB 11 Sept. 3 | Jones AT&T Stadium | 7 p.m. | FSN Desmon Smith DB 7 u Giles boasted one of the top seasons for a Red Raider wide receiver in recent Brayden Stringer LB 11 memory after totaling 1,158 yards and 13 touchdowns off 69 catches as just T.J. Vasher WR 1 ARIZONA STATE - L, 55-68 a sophomore. The performance placed Giles, who was an All-Big 12 second Joseph Wallace DL 8 Sept. 10 | Sun Devil Stadium | 9 p.m. | FS1 team honoree, among the all-time single-season leaders in school history for Da’Leon Ward RB 9 both receiving touchdowns (fourth) and yards (ninth). Antoine Wesley WR 4 LOUISIANA TECH - W, 59-45 u The quartet of Giles, Batson (60 rec., 644 yards), Cantrell (58 rec., 675 yards) Sept. 17 | Jones AT&T Stadium | 6 p.m. | FSN and Coutee (55 rec., 890 yards) as well as senior Derrick Willies (18 rec., 288 yards) made up 66 percent of Texas Tech’s total receiving yards during the 2016 campaign. The Red Raiders also return several other experienced wideouts in junior Tony Brown KANSAS - W, 55-19 (13 rec., 128 yards), senior Ja’Deion High (6 rec., 54 yards), sophomore Quan Shorts (5 rec., 124 yards) as well as sophomores T.J. Sept. 29 | Jones AT&T Stadium | 7:30 p.m. | FS1 Vasher (2 rec., 9 yards) and Antoine Wesley. u Along the offensive line, Texas Tech returns four of its mainstays from a year ago in seventh-year senior Tony Morales as well KANSAS STATE - L, 38-44 as junior Paul Stawarz and sophomores Madison Akamnonu and Terence Steele. Morales and Steele started in all 12 games a Oct. 8 | Bill Snyder Stadium | 6 p.m. | ESPNU year ago while Stawarz and Akamnonu were in the starting rotation for eight and seven games, respectively. Sophomore Bailey Smith (one start) and Travis Bruffy also saw significant time as true freshmen. #20/18 WEST VIRGINIA - L, 17-48 u Defensively, the Red Raiders used multiple underclassmen throughout the 2016 TOTAL SNAPS BY TRUE FRESHMEN Oct. 15 | Jones AT&T Stadium | 11 a.m. | FS1 2016 season, giving defensive coordinator David Gibbs some added experi- (National Leaders) ence heading into this spring.