A new decade, a new head coach, and things should be better on the bowl game winning front for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Right? I mean, after losing a couple of bowl games under Pete Cawthon in the 1930’s things would certainly be different under head coach Dell Morgan in his first bowl appearance. Right?
Welp. Um, no. Even with all that changed from Texas Tech’s first Sun Bowl to the second trip for Tech to El Paso, we still get a very not good result for the Red Raiders.
We're continuing our path down memory lane, examining bits of history here and there and we're still finding frustrating bowl game results. I promise, soon we will get to talk about a bowl game in which the Red Raiders came out on top. Unfortunately, soon is not right now.
Because right now, unfortunately, we're going to talk about how Texas Tech didn't have any fun in the Sun Bowl again.
Texas Tech football history: The Red Raiders visited the Sun Bowl again in 1942 but still didn’t have any success in El Paso
Against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, the Red Raiders weren’t able to move the ball at all. We’re talking about Texas Tech not scoring a single point in the 1942 edition of the Sun Bowl. Which is not even remotely good.
This all happened as Tulsa had plenty of offensive success (at least in terms of gaining yards, that is). The Golden Hurricane was led by Glenn Dobbs, who managed to complete 20 of his 31 pass attempts for 201 yards.
Those passing numbers seem remarkably efficient for this particular era of college football and I feel like we don’t talk about that anywhere near enough. Also worth noting that Dobbs helped Tulsa gain a total of 335 offensive yards, which also seems like a lot for this era of football. And yet, Tulsa only scored six points. Football is weird sometimes.