Big 12 team preview: Slumbering Texas Tech is due for a breakout season. Can the 2024 Red Raiders deliver?

 

 

 

Editor’s note: This article is the twelfth in a series that offers a preview of every Big 12 football team for 2024. One could reasonably argue that Texas Tech was the sleeping giant in the Big 12 football race

 

 

 

during the last few years. However, the Red Raiders have never been able to live up to the preseason hype. Take last year, for example, when they were predicted to finish

 

 

 

fourth but ended up losing 38-30 at home to No. 13 Oregon and losing to teams like Wyoming, West Virginia, and BYU.

 

 

 

Product Type: onLoad; Serial Number: 298781130~FFuk3UhM2hILxtg9 Although the team led by Coach Joey McGuire concluded with a respectable 7-6 overall record (5-4 in the Big 12), the majority of Lubbock residents saw the season as

 

 

 

 

unsatisfactory and an opportunity missed. The Red Raiders did have a successful season finale, winning four of their last five games following their 27-14 loss at BYU in the “Spitgate” game. However, the one defeat after October 21 was a huge one: rival Texas crushed Tech 57-7 as a

 

 

 

confrontational farewell gift as the despised Longhorns left for the SEC. Football at Texas Tech in 2024 Let’s go back to 2024. Some excellent players from Texas Tech are back, including quarterback Behren Morton, linebacker Ben Roberts, safety CJ Baskerville, and running back Tahj Brooks, an All-America possibility. However, media