Red Raiders, Lobos Team Up With HCF
May 30, 2000 | Football
May 30, 2000
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech has accepted an invitation and finalized an agreement to play New Mexico in the inaugural Hispanic College Fund Bowl to open the 2000 football season.
The game, set for Aug. 26 at Jones Stadium on the Texas Tech campus, will kick off the Mike Leach era of Red Raider football and gives the Red Raiders 12 games, eight at home.
Tickets for the game are $35 and will be offered as part of the season ticket package. Texas Tech student tickets are $15 for the game and Guns Up Club members can purchase tickets for $10. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds from the game go directly to the Hispanic College Fund.
The meeting will be the 37th all-time between Texas Tech and New Mexico. The Red Raiders lead the series 29-5-2, with the last meeting a 34-7 Tech win at New Mexico in 1995. The Lobos' last trip to Jones Stadium was to open the 1994 season, a 37-31 Texas Tech victory.
The Aug. 26 date marks the earliest Texas Tech has started a football season since the program began in 1925. Previously, the earliest season-opener was an Aug. 30 game at Tennessee in 1997.
Texas Tech now plays four consecutive home games to open the season and six of its first seven games at Jones Stadium.
Following is the current 2000 football schedule:
Aug. 26 New Mexico (Hispanic College Fund Bowl)
Sept. 2 Utah State
Sept. 9 North Texas
Sept. 16 Louisiana-Lafayette
Sept. 30 at Texas A&M
Oct. 7 Baylor (Homecoming)
Oct. 14 Nebraska
Oct. 21 at Kansas State
Oct. 28 at Kansas
Nov. 4 Texas
Nov. 11 Oklahoma State
Nov. 18 at Oklahoma