| GAME INFORMATION
Texas Tech (2-0; 0-0 Big 12) hits the road for the first time this season as the Red Raiders travel to Austin for a date against the No. 2 Texas Longhorns. The game will be the Big 12 opener for both teams and will be televised in primetime. Kickoff at Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium is set for 7 p.m. and the game is SOLD OUT. RANKINGS
Texas is ranked second in both the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Poll. Texas Tech is unranked. RED RAIDERS RETURN TO PRIMETIME
Texas Tech returns to primetime on Saturday as the Red Raiders travel to Austin to face No. 2 Texas. Saturday's game will be televised in front of a nationwide audience on ABC. Brent Musburger (play-by-play), Kirk Herbstreit (analyst) and Lisa Salters (sidelines) will call the action from Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Saturday's game will mark the fourth appearance on ABC Primetime for the Red Raiders in their last five Big 12 Conference games. ESPN'S COLLEGE GAMEDAY HEADS TO AUSTIN
For the second-straight year and third time in the last five years, ESPN's College GameDay will be on site Saturday in Austin for the annual grudge match between Texas Tech and the University of Texas. The Texas Tech-Texas game has kept the GameDay crew busy over the last few years as the show first broadcasted from the site of the game back in 2005 when Tech's Cody Hodges led a 6-0 team into Austin to face a 6-0 Texas squad led by Vince Young. The show made its first appearance in Lubbock last year for the matchup between No. 5 Texas Tech and No. 1 Texas. NATIONAL RADIO BROADCAST SET FOR SATURDAY
The Sports USA Network will broadcast Saturday's game to a national audience. Rich Cellini (play-by-play), Gary Barnett (analyst) and Roman Oben (sidelines) will call the action. TEXAS TECH SPORTS NETWORK
Texas Tech fans across the state and the region can tune into the Texas Tech Sports Network coverage of Saturday's game. Brian Jensen (play-by-play), John Harris (color) and Toby Cecil (sidelines) will call the action. The flagship station for the Red Raiders in Lubbock is Double T 104.3FM. For more information, log on to www.texastech.com. TEXAS TECH IN BIG 12 OPENERS
Texas Tech opens Big 12 Conference play on the road for the fourth consecutive year and the 11th time overall. Despite having to start league play on the road nearly every season, Texas Tech has managed a 9-4 record in Big 12 openers. The Red Raiders kicked off the 2008 Big 12 campaign last season in Manhattan where they easily handled the Kansas State Wildcats 58-28. Tech's last loss in a Big 12 opener came in 2007 when the Red Raiders dropped a 49-45 decision at Oklahoma State. THE SERIES
Texas Tech and Texas will be meeting on the gridiron for the 58th time on Saturday evening when the two teams collide at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. The Red Raiders will take a one-game win streak to Austin as Tech downed the top-ranked Longhorns 39-33 last season in Lubbock. The Longhorns, however, own the all-time series with a 42-15 record and have won the previous five meetings between the two teams in Austin. Tech's last trip to the state capitol resulted in a 59-43 setback to the then 15th-ranked Longhorns. The series against Texas is the third most played in school history, trailing Baylor (67 meetings) and Texas A&M (66 meetings). MAN, THAT'S EARLY
The Texas Tech-Texas match-up is typically reserved for late October or early November but that all changed this past spring when the game was moved up to accomodate ABC's national broadcast of the game. Saturday's game will mark the earliest meeting between the two teams since the 1955 season when the game was played on Sept. 17 (the season opener for the Red Raiders that year). NO. 1 LAST YEAR, NO. 2 THIS YEAR
The Red Raiders had a daunting task ahead of them last year when the Longhorns came to Lubbock as the nation's top-ranked team. This year things won't get any easier when Tech heads to Austin as they will encounter a Longhorn team that is ranked second in the country in both the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls. In fact, the Red Raiders have faced a Texas team ranked in the top five in the country in five of the last six years. A QUICK LOOK AT THE LONGHORNS
The Texas Longhorns came into the season as a favorite among many college football experts to win the Big 12 Conference and secure a spot in the BCS National Championship. Texas is off to a good start so far as they stand at 2-0 heading into this week's game after polishing off Wyoming 41-10 last Saturday in Laramie. The Longhorns opened the season with a 59-20 victory over Louisiana-Monroe at home.
- Colt McCoy, a 2008 Heisman Trophy finalist, has thrown for 654 yards and five touchdowns in the first two games of the year. He is 51-of-76 with two interceptions for a quarterback efficiency mark of 155.8.
- Jordan Shipley is the team's leading receiver with 241 yards on 15 catches and has one touchdown.
- Tailback Vondrell McGee is averaging 65.5 yards-per-game and has one touchdown.
- Linebacker Roddrick Muckleroy is the leading tackler with 11 stops, including two for a loss.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST YEAR'S WIN OVER TEXAS
- Marked Texas Tech's first win over a team ranked No. 1 in the nation.
- Gave the program its 500th win.
- Was the most watched game of the season on ABC and the fourth most watched college football game in the history of the network.
- Led to Tech's highest rankings in school history as the Red Raiders jolted to No. 2 in the Associated Press poll and to No. 3 in the coaches poll the following day.
- Texas Tech hosted ESPN's College GameDay for the first time.
- A Jones AT&T Stadium record crowd of 56,333 watched as Michael Crabtree scored the game winning touchdown in the final seconds to lift Tech to the 39-33 win.
TECH 7-1 ALL-TIME ON SEPT. 19TH
Texas Tech heads into Saturday's matchup with a 7-1 record all-time on Sept. 19th. The last time the Red Raiders played on Sept. 19th was in 1998 and the results were a 34-18 victory over Fresno State at Jones AT&T Stadium. The only loss on the date came in 1992 when the Red Raiders suffered a 16-13 setback to the Oregon Ducks (in Eugene, Ore.) NOTES FROM THE RICE GAME
- Two Red Raiders made their first career starts on offense against Rice: Tramain Swindall (H), Lonnie Edwards (LG).
- Gave Mike Leach a career record of 78-39. He is now just five wins away from becoming the school's all-time wins leader. Spike Dykes currently holds the record with 82.
- Gave Texas Tech a 22-1 non-conference record at home under Mike Leach.
- Gave Texas Tech a 10-game home win streak. Tech's last loss at home was to Colorado in 2007.
- Gave Texas Tech a 31-6 record in home night games and 10-straight wins.
- Texas Tech's 63 pass attempts were the most by the offense since the Colorado game in 2007.
- Tramain Swindall recorded career highs in both yards and touchdowns in his first game. The sophomore finished the night with six catches for 123 yards and two touchdowns.
- Linebacker Marlon Williams snagged the first interception of the season for the Red Raider defense when he picked off Rice QB Ryan Lewis at the TT40 late in the fourth quarter. The interception set up Tech's final touchdown drive of the game.
POTTS LUCKY SEVEN
Junior quarterback Taylor Potts accomplished something against Rice that even his predecessor Graham Harrel was unable to do. Potts became the first Tech quarterback to throw for at least seven TD's in a game since B.J. Symons threw eight against Texas A&M on Oct. 4th, 2003. The junior from Abilene spread the ball around as five different players caught a TD. He finished the night 36-of-57 for 456 yards, all new career highs.
Most TD Passes (Single-Game) In Big 12 History
BJ Symons (Texas Tech): 8 vs. Texas A&M, Oct. 4, 2003
Taylor Potts (Texas Tech): 7 vs. Rice, Sept. 12, 2009
Dustin Long (Texas A&M): 7 vs. Texas Tech, Oct. 5, 2002 LEONG HAULS IN THREE
For Lyle Leong, the touchdowns seems to come in bunches. The junior from Abilene caught three touchdown passes in Tech's win over Rice. The three TD receptions mark just the fourth, fifth and sixth of his career and were the first since last season's game at Kansas State. Against the Wildcats, Leong hauled in three touchdown catches and coming into tonight, those were the only touchdowns of his Texas Tech career. He finished the night with nine catches for 117 yards. DEFENSE COMES UP BIG IN THE SECOND HALF
Ruffin McNeil's halftime adjustments showed in the second half against Rice as the Red Raider defense came to life. The defense recorded three sacks and limited the Owls to 154 yards in the second half. Brandon Sharpe recovered the first fumble of his career and the defense snagged an interception (Marlon Williams). The Red Raiders also collected seven tackles for loss in the second half. Overall the defense had six sacks and that marked the first six-sack performance by Tech defense since the 2007 game against Rice. The defense was in the backfield all night as well with 14 tackles for loss and held the Owls to 257 yards of total offense. WILLIAMS STARTS SENIOR YEAR OFF STRONG
Senior linebacker Marlon Williams has made his presence known in the first two games of the season. In two games, he has recorded a team-high 16 tackles with five of them going for a loss. He made a key interception in the fourth quarter of the Rice game that led to a Red Raider touchdown. Five of his total tackles have been behind the line and has resulted in a loss of 14 total yards. | 
