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Texas Tech football: The best home seasons in Red Raider history

By Matthew Conner

LUBBOCK, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 07: The sun sets behind Jones AT&T Stadium during the first half of the college football game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the UTEP Miners on September 07, 2019 in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 07: The sun sets behind Jones AT&T Stadium during the first half of the college football game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the UTEP Miners on September 07, 2019 in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images) /
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General view of AT&T Jones Stadium. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)
General view of AT&T Jones Stadium. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) /

2020 will be challenging on the South Plains

There have been other perfect seasons at home in Texas Tech football history including 1965 and 1951 but instead of going that far back in the annals of Red Raider sports, let’s look at just how challenging the 2020 home schedule is.

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This is in fact an extremely tough seven-game gauntlet for the Red Raiders.  We can expect Texas and Oklahoma to be in the top 20 when they come to Lubbock and Baylor could very well be in the national rankings when they visit.  What’s more, Arizona is not going to be a pushover and will present a sizeable challenge in week three.

The key stretch is going to be when West Virginia, Baylor, and Texas come to town in consecutive games in October.  It feels almost essential for Tech to find a way to win a pair of those contests in order to return to the land of the winning.

Following that, the only home games in the final five contests will be against Kansas in game No. 10 and OU in the regular-season finale.  Thus, if Tech is going to get to seven wins in the regular season to guarantee an end to the four-straight losing seasons the program is currently in the midst of, it would behoove them to be at the five-win mark after the Texas game on October 24th.

The must-win games will be Alabama State and Kansas.  Those two are non-negotiable.

The tossups appear to be Arizona, Baylor, and perhaps West Virginia though the way the Mountaineers looked last year, Tech should fully expect to win that contest as well.  The goal should also be to win a pair of these contests, preferably with Baylor being one of the two. Then, if Tech can upset either OU or Texas, the season will take on a fantastic feeling at home for the first time since 2009.

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In all, a record of 7-0 seems impossible but a 5-2 mark would be cause for rejoicing on the Caprock.  Even a 4-3 record would signify progress and would be a potential launching pad for the Matt Wells era as the second-year head coach must begin to win back the home fans in 2020.

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