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Texas Tech safety Cody Davis , shown sacking Baylor's Blake Szymanski and forcing a fumble during the Red Raiders' victory last month, enters the Alamo Bowl after a regular season in which he was named a freshman All-American. Texas Tech redshirt freshman safety Cody Davis made a name for himself in high school four years ago when he intercepted ...

An official scoring change Sunday gave Texas Tech defensive end Brandon Sharpe the sack he needed to break Adell Duckett's school single-season record.

Texas Tech defensive end Brandon Sharpe was named the Co-Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week following his performance in the Red Raiders' 20-13 win over Baylor at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

First appeared on redraiders.com : 11:02 p.m. Sunday. With almost 72,000 fans providing a festive atmosphere in ultra-modern Cowboys Stadium, Texas Tech players were asked if their neutral-site regular-season finale felt like a bowl game.

Attendance for Saturday's game at the new Cowboys Stadium was 71,964, the largest crowd in the 68-game history of the Texas Tech-Baylor series.

Taylor Potts threw a pair of touchdown passes to Lyle Leong less than two minutes apart midway through the third quarter, and the defense made a goal-line stand in the final minutes, giving Texas Tech a 20-13 victory over Baylor on Saturday night.

Freshman Nick Florence passed for a school-record 427 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a fourth, helping Baylor defeat Missouri 40-32 on Saturday.

Texas star Colt McCoy has enjoyed plenty of success throwing the ball against Baylor, but not as much in his lone visit to Floyd Casey Stadium.

The old saying goes, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. The Longhorns were almost fooled again when they had the ball on their own 1-yard line last Saturday and tried to run Cody Johnson out of the end zone in the I-formation. Remember in 2008 when Texas was stopped for a safety against Texas Tech after trying to run Chris ...

The Big 12 North has hit the rewind button. With two-time defending champion Missouri buried in last place alongside reeling Kansas, Kansas State and Nebraska have emerged as the front-runners to represent the North in the Dec.

Baylor freshman quarterback Nick Florence was named Big 12 Conference Offensive Player of the Week after his record-setting performance in Baylora s 40-32 upset at Missouri, the league office announced Monday.

More than an hour after the final whistle, the parking lot was still half full, purple-clad tailgaters flipping burgers and drinking beer, sitting in camp chairs under portable awnings.

Freshman Nick Florence passed for a school-record 427 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a fourth, helping Baylor defeat Missouri 40-32 on Saturday.

When Mizzou runs Mizzou's running game showed some progress against Colorado, whose run defense ranks 10th in the Big 12, and Baylor's run defense is ranked last.

Nebraska At Baylor FACTS & STATS: Site: Floyd Casey Stadium -- Waco, Texas. Television:Versus. Home Record: Nebraska 3-2, Baylor 2-2. Away Record: Nebraska 1-1, Baylor 1-2. Neutral Record: Nebraska 0-0, Baylor 0-0. Conference Record: Nebraska 1-2, Baylor 0-3. Series Record: Nebraska leads, 10-1. GAME NOTES: A couple of reeling Big 12 teams lock ...

Pelini: 'We need to win' 6:29 p.m. The NU players aren't mentally bruised beyond repair, but winning Saturday would be a good confidence boost, according to coach Bo Pelini.

Baylor is without quarterback Robert Griffin for Saturday's game. When Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin last year darted around the end of Nebraska's front four on a fourth-and-short play, then accelerated past all of the Cornhusker defenders for a 47-yard touchdown run, a low murmur went up in the Memorial Stadium press box.

Nebraska defensive coordinator Carl Pelini says Baylor's offense will present a big challenge with its speed.

By DWAIN PRICE WACO - Until a reporter recently told him, Baylor coach Art Briles had no idea cornerback Clifton Odom's father used to play in the NFL.That wasn't really good news for the younger Odom.'When coach Briles said, 'I didn't know your dad played in the NFL,' that's something I don't like to talk about,' Odom said.