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Unless one of Texas Tech's receivers dazzles everyone with a career-best game at the Alamo Bowl, the Red Raiders will finish the season without a 1,000-yard pass catcher for the first time since 2001.

Mike Leach's Texas Tech record-breaking 83rd victory Saturday came with a touch of irony.

It appears Texas Tech flanker Jacoby Franks, who worked with the scout team all week, will be benched for Saturday's home finale against Oklahoma.

Next week's Texas Tech-Baylor game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington is nearing sellout status, according to Dave Welsh, Tech's assistant athletic director for ticket operations.

When Eric Russell joined the Texas Tech coaching staff last spring, he noticed while doing his homework on Big 12 Conference opponents that Oklahoma State was at or near the top in many special-teams categories the last few years.

From left are Barry Turner, Phillip Dillard, Dejon Gomes and Jared Crick. FOOTBALL Black shirts, red faces Watch defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh at the postgame press conference LINCOLN - Some advice for anyone looking to strike up a pleasant conversation with Nebraska coach Bo Pelini during the next few days: Don't bring up the Blackshirts.

By DWAIN PRICE LUBBOCK - A quarterback controversy might be brewing at Texas Tech.Especially with the way Steven Sheffield performed Saturday night against Kansas State.Making his first collegiate start, Sheffield passed for 490 yards and threw seven touchdown passes to guide the Red Raiders to a 66-14 Big 12 conference victory over the Wildcats ...

Texas Tech's Jacoby Franks gets a 72-yard pass reception Saturday night in Lubbock.

Now he's done it, the thing Mike Leach hates most. Steven Sheffield, darn him, has gone and created a distraction.

Steven Sheffield threw for 490 yards and seven touchdown passes in his first career start to help Texas Tech beat Kansas State 66-14 on Saturday night.

The entry titled "1st quarter: Texas, 7-3." Categories 1st quarter: Texas, 7-3 Saturday, September 19, 2009, 06:31 PM The first half of the quarter belonged mostly to Texas Tech, which put together a long drive to open the game that resulted in a 41-yard field goal by Matt Williams - a career long for the kicker who was literally plucked from the ...

For Texas Tech quarterback Taylor Potts to debut successfully, he needs to be able to throw deep and outside to split end Edward Britton and over the middle and up the seam to inside receiver Tramain Swindall.

For Texas Tech quarterback Taylor Potts to debut successfully, he needs to be able to throw deep and outside to split end Edward Britton and over the middle and up the seam to inside receiver Tramain Swindall.

For Texas Tech quarterback Taylor Potts to debut successfully, he needs to be able to throw deep and outside to split end Edward Britton and over the middle and up the seam to inside receiver Tramain Swindall.

It seemed like any other run, just an early-morning training run through the woods in Colorado Springs, Colo.

West Orange-Stark Coach Dan Hooks once joked with James Haynes and asked him if he was going to go straight to the NFL.

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