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Texas Tech football: Beating TCU is important for multiple reasons

By Matthew Conner

FORT WORTH, TX - OCTOBER 11: Jett Duffey #7 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders runs for the game winning touchdown against the TCU Horned Frogs at Amon G. Carter Stadium on October 11, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
FORT WORTH, TX - OCTOBER 11: Jett Duffey #7 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders runs for the game winning touchdown against the TCU Horned Frogs at Amon G. Carter Stadium on October 11, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) /
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This fan base needs to experience more positivity at Jones Stadium

There is no question that the Red Raiders need to recapture what they once had at home.  That starts by…ya know…winning games at home, preferably the ones that the fan base cares about.

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This year’s schedule didn’t provide a ton of opportunities for that to happen given that neither OU or Texas are coming to Lubbock this year.  Still actually beating a Big 12 team other than Kansas at Jones Stadium, as Tech did when it beat Oklahoma State in October, was a great first step.

But this year has also made it tough for Tech to build up any real momentum at home because of the spread-out nature of the home games.  After playing two games at The Jones to start the year against teams about as interesting as an algebra textbook, Tech then went a month before it’s next home game (OSU).  Since that October 5th win, the Red Raiders have played only once more at home, their 34-24 loss to Iowa State on October 19th.

It’s been strange for Tech to go the span of essentially two months with only two home games but that’s been the case this year.  Now with back-to-back home games for the first time since the first two games of the year, this is the last chance for this program to garner some goodwill in front of the home fans.

Bating TCU will do wonders for Wells.  It’s been since 2015 that this program won more than one Big 12 home game and the OSU win was the first at home over a team other than Kansas since beating Kansas State to end that 2015 home schedule.

Fans all over the nation are staying home from college football games in startling numbers.  Even Notre Dame is struggling to fill its stadium as its 273-game sellout streak is expected to end this weekend. Tech fans certainly aren’t bucking that trend.

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It’s been since 2013 that we’ve seen the Red Raiders win a rivalry game at home but if Tech can start to win the games it plays in front of the home fans, especially rivalry games, it will do more for this program’s attendance and fan engagement woes than anything else could.

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