There haven’t been many “bad” offenses in Lubbock over the past couple decades. Thanks to the Air Raid innovation that Mike Leach brought to the Texas Tech Red Raiders around 25 years ago, we’ve seen plenty of points scored by TTU over the years.
But that doesn’t mean that some Texas Tech offenses didn’t have areas where growth was necessary and room for improvement. The 2001 offense that was seen in Lubbock is something that many schools would have loved to have on their campuses back in the day. This is a group that scored plenty of points, gained a ton of yards, and had fun doing it.
But there were still probably a couple of areas that could have been improved upon. So, as we take a look at the record book and the points that have been scored, let’s take a look at the way the Red Raiders performed on offense back in 2001.
Texas Tech football history: 2001 showed that Mike Leach and Texas Tech had plenty of room to improve on offense in Lubbock
In Mike Leach’s second season in Lubbock, the Red Raiders didn’t exactly gain a ton of yards per game the way that some of Leach’s other teams did. Don’t get me wrong, Texas Tech scored plenty of points 24 years ago, but the Red Raiders weren’t exactly the most impressive offense in the world in 2001.
This team averaged 337.3 passing yards per game (which is a lot, but we’ve seen some other Tech offenses do more) and the Red Raiders only averaged 419.2 total offensive yards per game. Again, that’s a lot, but other offenses in Lubbock have averaged more.
And all of that considered, Texas Tech still scored 35.1 points per game. That was one of the best scoring offenses in the country back in 2001 and it still would have been very productive this season.
Kliff Kingsbury managed to complete 69 percent of his passes and threw for 3502 yards and 25 touchdowns during the season. That’s a really solid season for a quarterback in 2001.