Texas Tech and Mississippi State have agreed to a home-and-home football series to being in 2028.
There’s noting like a little news ten years from fruition to get Texas Tech football fans through the offseason. Monday, Texas Tech and Mississippi State announced an agreement for a home-and-home series to be played in Starkville, MS in 2028 and in Lubbock the following season.
The two programs have met seven times with the Bulldogs holding a 4-2-1 edge. The series started on Halloween 1953 with a 27-20 road win by Texas Tech. The only other time Tech prevailed was in 1961; a 21-7 home win.
Mississippi State has victories in 1961, 1967, 1969 and 1970. The tie was a 28-28 affair in Jackson, Mississippi in 1968.
Facing SEC teams has been a staple of the Kirby Hocutt era for Texas Tech. The Red Raiders open the 2018 season with a neural site game against Ole’ Miss in Houston. Tech split a home-and-home series with Arkansas in 2014-15 and faced LSU in the 2015 Texas Bowl.
In 2015, the Big 12 enacted a rule stating that each team must play a Power-5 school or Notre Dame every season. Since then, Tech has played either an SEC or a PAC 12 school.
In 2016-17, Tech split a series with Arizona State of the Pac 12. The Sundevils won at home in 2016 while Tech returned the favor last year in Lubbock.
In 2019-2020, Tech will square off with another Pac 12 team, Arizona. The Red Raiders travel to Tucson to open the series and then host the return game the following season.
Another interesting Pac 12 matchup comes our way 2023 and 2024 when Texas Tech and Oregon do battle. The Ducks will come to Lubbock in 2023 and Tech travels to Eugene in 2024.
A future series with ACC opponent NC State is also on the books. That one is not in back-to-back seasons though, as Tech heads to Raleigh, North Carolina in 2022 and hosts the Wolfpack five years later in 2027.
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With the addition of the Mississippi State series, Tech now has games against Power 5 teams in all but three of the next eleven seasons. Tech still needs to round out its 2021, 2025 and 2026 schedules to fill Big 12 requirements.