Game Preview: Kansas State

LUBBOCK, Texas – Texas Tech will begin the final stretch of the 2017 season Saturday when the Red Raiders host Kansas State in a 11 a.m. kickoff at Jones AT&T Stadium. The game will air live nationally on FOX Sports 1 and the Texas Tech Sports Network.

Kevin Fitzgerald will call the game for FS1 alongside analyst Evan Moore. The game can also be streamed nationally through the FOX Sports Go app.

The Texas Tech Sports Network will also broadcast the game over 46 affiliates throughout the state of Texas and New Mexico as Brian Jensen will have the call alongside analyst John Harris, sideline reporter Chris Level and engineer Steve Pitts. The radio broadcast can also be heard on Sirius channel 112, XM channel 200 or via the TuneIn app.

Tickets for Saturday's game are still available via the Texas Tech Ticket Office. Fans can purchase a ticket to the K-State and TCU games for $90 per person by calling 806-742-TECH or by visiting the online ticket portal.

SATURDAY STORYLINES

Following three-consecutive losses, the Red Raiders will look to rebound this weekend when Texas Tech hosts Kansas State inside Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders' three-game losing streak is their longest this season. All four of Tech's losses this season have come against teams currently ranked or receiving votes in the national polls.
Since the start of the 2015 season, Texas Tech has bounced back from a three-game losing streak with a win in its very next contest. The Red Raiders rebounded with wins over both TCU and Baylor in such situations a year ago and then against Kansas State in 2015.
If there is a turnover forced by the Texas Tech defense this year, odds are likely that sophomore defensive back Justus Parker is involved. Parker has a team-leading three interceptions this year to go along with two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery, all of which have come in the last four games.
Parker is tied for 22nd nationally and second in the Big 12 with his three interceptions this season. He is part of a Tech defense that has picked off 10 passes altogether this year, which is twice as many as the Red Raiders recorded a year ago.
The Red Raiders head to the month of November needing at least two wins to be bowl eligible for the 38th time in program history. Texas Tech will face three teams that are currently .500 or worse on the season and then a 7-1 TCU squad that is ranked 10th in the country this week.
The stretch run in November begins at home this weekend where the Red Raiders are averaging an impressive 50.1 points per game dating back to the start of the 2015 season. Tech has scored 50 or more points 12 times at home during that span, five more than any other school in the country.
Texas Tech and Kansas State will meet for the 18th time in school history Saturday in a series that the Red Raiders lead 9-8 all-time. The two schools have met only three times outside of Big 12 play with the first meeting coming in 1933, which was a 6-0 victory by the Red Raiders.
The Red Raiders has controlled the series in Lubbock as Texas Tech is 7-3 all-time against Kansas State at Jones AT&T Stadium, which includes a 4-3 mark during the Big 12 era.
Texas Tech has 10 interceptions already this year, which doubles its total from all of last season. It marks the most interceptions for the Red Raiders through eight games in a season since Tech had 11 picks at the same point in the 2010 season. Tech is tied for 20th nationally and second in the Big 12 with its 10 interceptions this year.
Through eight games in the 2017 season, Keke Coutee looks like the same dominating wideout that ended the 2016 campaign. The junior ranks seventh in the country and third among power-five wideouts in receiving yards per game so far this season as he is averaging 104.6 yards through the air as part of a Texas Tech offense that once again ranks among the nation's leaders.

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Keke Coutee

Justus Parker