Texas Tech football: Jett Duffey’s best games as a Red Raider

No. 5: @ Texas 2019

In what would turn out to be his final game as a Red Raider, Duffey threw for 399 yards and two touchdowns in Austin in a 49-24 loss to Texas.  But at the outset of the game, it looked like he might engineer an upset.

A 13-yard TD pass to KeSean Carter on his team’s first possession of the game capped an 11-play, 80-yard drive to give Tech a 7-0.  On his next drive, he completed all three of his passes as Tech found the end zone again to go up 14-0.

But the Longhorns would storm back and overwhelm an undermanned Red Raider defense.  Still, in soggy conditions, Duffey was solid.

This was his third-highest passing day at Tech and his completion percentage of 62.1 was rather impressive given how wet of a day it was in the state capitol.  What’s more, Duffey had a great connection with two of his receivers, Carter and Erik Ezukanma, both of whom went over the 100-yard mark in a game for the first time in their careers.

Unfortunately, we also so the bad side of his game in what turned out to be the turning point of the contest.  Just prior to halftime, Duffey had driven his team to the UT 24-yard-line looking to tie the game at 28-28 before the intermission.  But on 2nd-and-11, he fumbled the ball and UT pounced on it to end the threat and Tech was never close to making it a game after that.

It was a perfect example of what was so frustrating about Duffey.  At times, he was sensational but far too often he made destructive mistakes that got his team beat.