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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.

Biggest home game in school history, some say. A chance to spoil the national title hopes of the blueblood Longhorns and give a working-class football program a shot at that elusive first Big 12 championship.

26, 2009 in Houston. Browse more photos>> THE OFFENSE With the football bye week, DTN is taking this opportunity to look at Texas Tech's offense and defense in 2010.

Jaye Crockett says he didn't have enough energy to lift a forkful of cake on his 18th birthday.

View full size photo>> THE DEFENSE With the football bye week, DTN is taking this opportunity to look at Texas Tech's offense and defense in 2010.

Hope glistened in the eyes of Aggie fans after a 52-30 dismantling of the heavily favored Red Raiders.

The Texas Tech football team will have to do without quarterback Steven Sheffield for a while longer.

Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones and Texas Tech running back Baron Batch were named Big 12 co-offensive players of the week.

In 26 Conference games this season, 20 teams that have committed the most turnovers have lost.

This weekly feature considers five reasons why Texas Tech will win and five reasons Texas Tech will lose to each opponent.

Texas Tech's LaRon Moore celebrates forcing a turnover by hitting Kansas' Kerry Meier and causing a fumble Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.

The Kansas defense has basically given KU 14 points, the offense has given away seven and the Texas Tech offense has a touchdown.

Freshman running back Eric Stephens is on the verge of breaking the Texas Tech single-season record for kickoff return yardage.

Texas Tech coach Mike Leach has never started a redshirt freshman quarterback -- but that could change against Kansas.

Several witnesses identified the man charged with fatally stabbing a University of Connecticut football player as the killer, prosecutors said yesterday.

The dust from the Texas A&M game is starting to settle and Texas Tech must confront a new reality.

Texas Tech didn't achieve the sellout it wanted on its first night in the newly expanded Jones AT&T Stadium.

Signs continue to point toward Texas Tech redshirt freshman Seth Doege making his first career start this week.

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin Oklahoma State quarterback Zac Robinson knows that Texas has knocked opposing quarterbacks out of the game in their last three games.

Late in the first half of a surprise on the South Plains on Saturday night, Texas A&M's Jamie McCoy reached up and snagged a short pass across the middle.