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  • Opinion: Tech whipped up on The Pirate

    Don Williams Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Syndicated content|Updated Dec 29, 2021

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A good many game watchers tuned in to the Liberty Bowl on Tuesday night expecting to see one team run up the score. And sure enough. Texas Tech folded, spindled and mutilated Mississippi State, 34-7, just the opposite sort of runaway from the one so many were forecasting. Mississippi State came in with the No. 3 passing offense in the Football Bowl Subdivision, and the Red Raiders held the Bulldogs to their lowest point total of the season. Only Alabama...

  • Tech coaches lock in for Liberty Bowl

    Don Williams Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Syndicated content|Updated Dec 27, 2021

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shortly after the Texas Tech football season ends Tuesday night at the Liberty Bowl, many of the staff members will immediately pivot to duties at their next jobs. Sonny Cumbie will be head coach at Louisiana Tech, Jake Brown will serve him as a co-offensive coordinator, Keith Patterson will be head coach at Abilene Christian University and Derek Jones and Joel Filani have jobs lined up at Virginia Tech and Washington State, respectively. They all got off the bus, however, when the Red Raiders pulled up to th...