A lot of things went poorly for Kliff Kingsbury and the Texas Tech Red Raiders throughout his time as the head coach in Lubbock. And while Kingsbury was significantly more successful for Texas Tech as a quarterback than he was as a head coach, there were a few things that went right for the Red Raiders under his guidance.
Take Texas Tech’s ability to score a bunch of points and gain a bunch of yards and have fun looking like a chaotic team for example. The Red Raiders were certainly good at that and they definitely excelled at that in 2014.
So, as we go through some of the best offenses that Texas Tech has seen since 2000 (up to this point, that is), we can’t ignore what Kingsbury had a bad TTU team doing on offense in 2014. I mean, this is a season in which Texas Tech had a 1000 yard rusher for the first time in well over a decade. We can't overlook this season.
Texas Tech football history: The Red Raiders had a great offense in 2014, but nothing else worked out well for TTU that season
This isn’t exactly the best offense in Texas Tech history, though I do have it as one of the 10 best offenses the Red Raiders have had since 2000. And that might be a bit controversial given that this group only averaged 30.5 points per game, but this team is among the best when it came to producing yards and moving the ball down the field via the air.
Of the 6049 total yards of offense (504.1 yards per game), Texas Tech managed to get 4213 yards through the air (shoutout to the duo of Davis Webb and a freshman Patrick Mahomes). Together, Webb and Mahomes managed to throw 40 touchdown passes against a total of 17 interceptions.
That’s pretty impressive.
And it would have seemed even more impressive had Texas Tech managed to keep teams from scoring 41.2 points per game against them that season. The Red Raiders, in Kingsbury's second season as their head coach, only won four games this year. That, uh, is a bit of a problem.