Post-Game Notes
November 16, 2002 | Football
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Getting Started
Texas Tech won the opening coin toss for the eighth time this season and elected to receive the opening kickoff and defend the north endzone. The weather conditions at kickoff: 53 degrees, Fair skies and 12 mph wind from the west.
Offensive Starters
LT: Daniel Loper; LG: E.J. Whitley; C: Toby Cecil; RG: Rex Richards; RT: Casey Keck; QB: Kliff Kingsbury; F: Taurean Henderson; H: Wes Welker; X: Nehemiah Glover; Y: Mickey Peters; Z: Carlos Francis
Defensive Starters
LE: Aaron Hunt; LT: Rodney McKinney; RT: Lamont Anderson; RE: Adell Duckett; STUB: Mike Smith; MAC: Lawrence Flugence; BUC: John Saldi; LC: Ricky Sailor; FS: Vincent Meeks; SS: Ryan Aycock; RC: Joselio Hanson
Kingsbury Surpasses 4,000-yard mark
Texas Tech senior quarterback Kliff Kingsbury needed 18 yards entering the game to give him his first 4,000-yard passing season. Kingsbury picked up the 18 yards early in the first quarter and became just the ninth quarterback in NCAA history to pass for 4,000 yards in a single-season.
*Kingsbury now has 4,419 passing yards this season, which ranks 7th all-time on the NCAA single-season yardage list.
Onward Kliff!
Senior Kliff Kingsbury moved into fourth place on the NCAA All-Time passing list as his 473 yards in today's game pushed him past Todd Santos. Kingsbury now totals 11,867 yards career passing yards.
Another Big Game For "The Natural"
Junior Wes Welker (aka The Natural) had another big game for the Red Raiders as he caught two touchdown passes on the afternoon and totaled 251 all-purpose yards (169 receiving, 44 rushing, 38 punt returns).
Welker also moved into fifth place on the school's all-time all-purpose yards list as ne now totals 3,891 moving him past Byron "Bam" Morris.
State Champions!
The Texas Tech Red Raiders crowned themselves State Champions tonight thanks to a 42-38 win over rival Texas. The win gives Texas Tech season victories over all four schools that Tech played within the state (at SMU 24-14; at Texas A&M 48-47 (OT); Baylor 62-11 and Texas 42-38). The last time Texas Tech beat all three in-state Big 12 schools was in 1997. The last time the Red Raiders beat every team they played from the state was in 1954 (Texas A&M, West Texas State, Texas Western, Houston and Hardin Simmons).
Tech Topples Highest Ranked Opponent In School History
Tonight's 42-38 win over No.3/4 Texas marks the Tech's biggest win in school history when it comes to the national rankings. Texas Tech had only beaten a Top 5 team one time in school history as the Red Raiders defeated No. 5 Houston 22-21 in Lubbock on Nov. 25, 1978. The last time Texas Tech defeated a team ranked in the Top 10 was against No. 6 Texas A&M on Oct. 2, 1999 when the Red Raiders scored a 22-19 win.
Texas Tech and Oklahoma To Meet Next Week For The Big 12 South Title
The Texas Tech Red Raiders will play for the Big 12 South Division title next week in a showdown against the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman. A win over the Sooners would give Tech the South Division title and a spot in the Big 12 Championship game. Texas Tech has played Oklahoma in this situation before but due to athletic sanctions Texas Tech was not eligible to play in post-season competition (had they won). The Sooners defeated Texas Tech 32-21 ending Tech's hope of the Big 12 South title
Texas Tech Notables
- Today's attendance of 52,047 is a season-high for Texas Tech this season.
- Sophomore Ivory McCann made his first kickoff return since the Missouri game in the first quarter.
- Junior Wes Welker gave Texas Tech its first points of the game with 14 minutes remaining in the second quarter when he caught a 23-yard touchdown pass from Kliff Kingsbury. The touchdown was the ninth receiving TD of his career.
- Sophomore defensive end Adell Duckett picked up his fourth sack of the season in the second quarter.
- Junior Mickey Peters hauled in his ninth career touchdown reception with 10 minutes remaining in the first half to tie the score at 14.
- Nehemiah Glover's 62-yard touchdown reception with 38 seconds remaining in the first half is the longest touchdown play by Texas Tech this season. The previous long was a 60-yard TD reception to redshirt freshman Taurean Henderson last week against Oklahoma State.
- Texas Tech's 42 points is the most points allowed by the Texas defense this season. The Longhorns gave up 35 points in the loss to Oklahoma earlier this year.
