Remarkably, the Texas Tech football has already come to its second-to-last game of the regular season. The 2024 season has flown by and today's trip to Stillwater, Oklahoma will be the final road game of the year.
Of course, playing at Oklahoma State has not been an easy proposition for the Red Raiders in recent years. In fact, Tech has dropped nine of its last ten games at Boone Pickens Stadium.
Interestingly, the only win the Red Raiders have secured in that span was in 2018. That year, a freshman QB named Alan Bowman guided Tech to a 41-17 win in what was the road start of his college career.
Now, remarkably, Bowman is still in college and he's the starting QB for the Cowboys. However, he hasn't been very impressive. Thus far, he's completing just 60.6% of his passes and he has thrown for 16 TDs and 12 interceptions.
In fact, during the BYU game on October 18, he was benched for Garrett Rangel but an injury to Rangel forced Bowman right back into action that night and he's remained the starting quarterback since.
Bowman's struggles have been a huge reason why the Cowboys are 3-7 overall and 0-7 in Big 12 play. It will be the first losing season for that program since 2005, the first year of head coach Mike Gundy's tenure.
Thus, if there was ever a day for Tech to walk out of Stillwater with a win, it would seem like today would be it. Of course, strange things seem to happen to the Red Raiders when they are favorites so nothing can be guaranteed.
It will be interesting to see what we get out of the Red Raiders today. Coming off of an open week after falling out of the Big 12 race thanks to their loss to Colorado two weeks ago, will they play with the fire needed to win another road game and ensure that the program has a winning road record for the first time in the Joey McGuire era? Here's hoping so.
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State broadcast info
Kickoff: 2:30 p.m. Central
TV: ESPN+
Play-by-Play: James Westling
Analyst: Jay Sonnhalter
Producer: John Wilson
Radio: TEXAS TECH SPORTS NETWORK
Play-by-Play: Brian Jensen
Analyst: John Harris
Sideline Reporter: Chris Level
SiriusXM (local): Channel 384
Mobile App: Varsity Network (Texas Tech)
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State series history
Texas Tech all-time record: 23-24-3
First meeting: 1935 (14-0 Texas Tech in Lubbock)
Most recent meeting: 2022 (41-31 Oklahoma State in Stillwater)
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State odds
Odds courtesy of FanDuel.com.
Favorite | Moneyline | Over/Under |
|---|---|---|
Texas Tech -4.5 | Texas Tech -184 | 65.5 |
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State game notes
Game notes courtesy of TexasTech.com.
- Tahj Brooks is one of only two rushers in the country this season to hit the 100-yard mark on the ground in every game he has played this season (minimum 7 games) and the only one to do so from a power conference.
- The 2022 meeting between Tech and OSU was the last time the two schools faced each other. The break in 2023 snapped a streak of meetings spanning 27 consecutive seasons, which was every year since the Big 12 was formed in 1996.
- This weekend’s matchup breaks a streak of 15-consecutive meetings where Oklahoma State has entered the game ranked in the top-25 polls. The Cowboys have not entered a matchup with Texas Tech unranked since 2007 when Oklahoma State outlasted the Red Raiders, 49-45, in Stillwater. Texas Tech is 6-3 since joining the Big 12 Conference in 1996 when facing an unranked Oklahoma State team.
- The Red Raiders are 11-16 all-time against the Cowboys during the Big 12 era despite winning seven of the first nine meetings after the league formed prior to the 1996 season.
Oklahoma State returned the favor, winning 12 of the last 14 meetings with Texas Tech’s two wins during that stretch coming in a 41-17 road win in 2018 and then a 45-35 victory at home a year later.
- This weekend’s matchup will place a member of the Wilson family on opposite offensive lines with Texas Tech sophomore Sheridan Wilson starting at center, while Oklahoma State will have his older brother, Preston Wilson, as its right guard. This will be the first time the two brothers have faced each other at the collegiate level as Sheridan Wilson was only a true freshman the last time Texas Tech and Oklahoma State faced each other. He did not see any playing time that season as part of a redshirt year.
- A victory over Oklahoma State would give the Red Raiders at least five Big 12 victories for the third-consecutive season under Joey McGuire. In its history, Texas Tech has won five or more league games over three-consecutive seasons only once previously from 1995-97 when the Red Raiders were transitioning from the Southwest Conference to the Big 12. That stretch coincided with a seven-year period with a winning conference record as Texas Tech finished above .500 in league play each year from 1991-97.