Texas Tech football: Bold predictions for the 2020 offense

An end zone pylon bearing the logos of the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Big 12 Conference is pitcured during the second half of the college football game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys on October 05, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images)

With the 2020 Texas Tech football season now less than two weeks away, here are five bold predictions for the Red Raider offense.

September has arrived and that means the longest college sports offseason in history is about to come to an end. Thankfully, in less than two weeks, the Texas Tech football team will return to the field to finally give us another Red Raider sporting event to enjoy.

The calendar’s ninth month has been fantastic for Tech in recent years. Since 2010, the Red Raiders have gone 27-8 in September, a record that has been aided by what has typically been at least two games against teams from outside the Power 5 conferences.

Of course, this year that won’t be the case with only one non-conference game on the schedule. So, for a change, the success of the season won’t be built largely on the back of what happens in September.

What’s more, this September will be unique in that it will feature only two games, rather than three or four. Thus, when the critical month of October arrives, Tech will not have had as much fine-tuning as in years past.

But unfortunately, this September was supposed to be far more interesting for Big 12 football fans. That’s because a number of intriguing non-conference games were on the early-season schedule.

Of course, everyone in Lubbock was looking forward to Arizona’s visit to Jones Stadium in the season’s third game. Meanwhile, the nation was pumped to see Texas head to Baton Rouge to take on LSU.

Likewise, Oklahoma and Tennessee were supposed to square off in a matchup of traditional powers. The 2020 Chick-fil-A kickoff featuring West Virginia and Florida State would have been a prime opportunity for the Big 12 to earn a key non-conference victory over the ACC while the league would have had two great chances to beat PAC 12 teams had TCU faced Cal and Oklahoma State been able to take on Oregon State as originally scheduled.

But these and almost all other intriguing non-conference games are no longer to be played causing the 2020 season to feel a bit less fulfilling than normal. However, we have to simply rejoice at the fact that the Big 12 is among the leagues still planning on playing in the fall of 2020. So let’s look towards what we might see this year by making five bold predictions for the upcoming season.