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Texas Tech football: Breaking down Jett Duffey vs. Jackson Tyner

By Matthew Conner

LUBBOCK, TX - NOVEMBER 10: Jett Duffey #7 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders looks to pass during the first half of the game against the Texas Longhorns on November 10, 2018 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TX - NOVEMBER 10: Jett Duffey #7 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders looks to pass during the first half of the game against the Texas Longhorns on November 10, 2018 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) /
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The Texas Tech football team is back in game preparation mode and looking for a new starting QB so let’s compare the candidates, Jett Duffey and Jackson Tyner.

The good news for Texas Tech football fans is that we will have a game to watch again this Saturday after last week’s bye.  The bad news, of course, is that the game will be taking place in Norman, Oklahoma.

Tech faces the No. 5 Sooners at 11 a.m. on FOX to ope Big 12 play.  It will mark the most difficult BIg 12 initiation imaginable for Matt Wells.

Since 2003, the Sooners have lost just nine games at Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium.  That most recent was a 38-31 stunner to Iowa State in which Cyclones’ head coach Matt Campbell first made a splash on the national scene.

Of course, one of the other losses n that time period was to the Red Raiders.  Back in 2011, Tomy Tuberville scored his biggest and most improbable win in his three years at Tech with a 41-38 triumph in Norman.

Upsetting the No. 3 team in the nation, the unranked Red Raiders ended OU’s 39-game home winning streak (which dated back to 2005) and opened the door for chaos in the Bowl Championship Series rankings.

Tech QB Seth Doege threw for 441 yards and four touchdown passes to lead the way.  Three of those scores went to receiver Alex Torres, who caught four passes for 94 yards.

Four-touchdown underdogs, Tech jumped out to a 24-7 halftime lead and survived a 21-point OU 4th-quarter.  Defensively, Tech forced two turnovers; a fumble recovered by Bret Dewhurst and an interception by Tre Porter (an Oklahoma native).

Unfortunately, the win did not propel the Red Raiders to new heights.  It would be the last game Tech would win in 2011 as they went 0-5 to finish the year 5-7 rendering their unforgettable win nothing but an anomalistic blip on the radar of what was an otherwise forgettable period in program history.

The only other time Tech took down the Sooners in Norman was in 1996, the first year of the Big 12’s existence.  That day, Zebbie Lethridge had two short touchdown runs and a 31-yard TD pass to Donnie Hart as Tech prevailed 22-12.

An upset this week seems about as unlikely as any in the history of the program.  Unlike in its other two wins in Norman, Tech will be headed into the most hostile stadium in the conference without the services of its starting QB.

Therefore, it feels like this game is more of an in-season audition for both Jett Duffey and Jackson Tyner as they vie for the right to assume the reins of the offense with Alan Bowman sidelined.  Wells has indicated that both will play and has yet to name a starter, however many believe it will be Tyner based on the fact that he was the first to take snaps behind Bowman in each of the season’s first two games.

The reality is that it will take a miracle, a plague, a natural disaster, a solar eclipse, and perhaps a zombie apocalypse for either Tyner or Duffey to waltz into Norman and lead an upset.   But it will be an invaluable experience for both moving forward and we need to see at least one give us hope that this team can survive until Bowman returns.  So let’s break down each QB and see what they may bring to the offense.

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