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The Texas Tech football team is nearly eight weeks removed from a Liberty Bowl loss to Arkansas and looking ahead to a March 10 start to spring practice.
A ton’s happened during the off-season. Between college football’s early national signing day and the NCAA transfer portal, Tech’s added 36 new players — so many that Joey McGuire’s staff stood pat during the traditional February national signing day. The Red Raiders got good news in the form of extended eligibility for offensive guard Davion Carter, linebacker Bryce Ramirez and defensive back Devynn Cromwell, all of whom were seniors in the two-deep in 2024.
They knocked out two of the objectives on our off-season to-do list from early December: Hang on to Jacob Rodriguez and get a kicker you can count on. Rodriguez, the Big 12’s leading tackler last season, announced he’ll stay for his last year of eligibility rather than declare for the NFL Draft.
And to succeed departing kicker Gino Garcia, who made 19 of 20 field goals in 2024, they fished from the transfer portal the University at Buffalo’s Upton Bellenfant, who made 18 of 21.
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Oh, and Tech handled a crisis that was perhaps unexpected, but shouldn’t have been: It kept James Blanchard, the architect of that portal class, after College Football Playoff runner-up Notre Dame tried to hire the Red Raiders’ general manager.
Now what? Here are the next orders of business.
Texas Tech linebackers Bryce Ramirez (3) and John Curry (6) put the clamps on Washington State quarterback John Mateer, center, during the Red Raiders’ 37-16 loss on Sept. 7 in Pullman, Washington.
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Author : Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Publish date : 2025-02-18 10:11:00
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