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Between the third and fourth quarters of the season opener, Texas Tech football fans gazed southward into the sky at a jaw-dropping drone show.
The people in charge alternately conjured a giant Double T, the adidas and Patrick Mahomes Gladiator logos, a Guns Up hand sign and a script Red Raiders. Many in a capacity crowd at Jones AT&T Stadium had come to see the grandeur of the new south end zone building. The scarlet-lights show just added to it.
The drone coordinator had a better Saturday night than Tim DeRuyter.
Until freshman defensive tackle Jayden Cofield saved the game by stopping a two-point conversion try in overtime, Texas Tech’s 52-51 victory over Abilene Christian had to be a nightmare for the Red Raiders’ defensive coordinator. Maverick McIvor sliced and diced a young Texas Tech secondary with 506 passing yards, the lion’s share of the 615 yards the Wildcats put up.
“Everything that could go wrong in the back end, at different times did,” said Tech coach Joey McGuire, who was pleased nevertheless that the Red Raiders avoided a humiliating loss.
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Texas Tech football exes took it to the Red Raiders
Tech might not face a more motivated team this year, given that ACU coach Keith Patterson and offensive skill players McIvor, Nehemiah Martinez, Trey Cleveland and Jed Castles once sported Red Raider colors, and ACU running back Isaiah Johnson’s from Lubbock-Cooper. Martinez, Cleveland and Castles combined for 16 catches, 195 yards and two touchdowns, and Johnson ran for three TDs.
Johnson’s game-tying, 5-yard TD late in the fourth quarter — a determined, tackle-shedding run — embodied their tenacity.
The fact the guys the Red Raiders kept were…
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Author : Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Publish date : 2024-09-01 07:42:57
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