On the Diamond
Robin Villeneuve will return for his senior year and that’s really good news for this baseball team. I don’t know how this team will eventually come together, but I have a feeling that Tim Tadlock will need to coach his ass off next year.
On the Gridiron
Texas Tech football announced the Red Raider Club Kickoff Luncheon will be set for August 21st
CBS Sports’ Brad Crawford on teams that are just outside the blue-chip ratio, which is the idea that only teams with the most blue-chip talent tend to win the CFP:
With reports indicating the Red Raiders are taking the field this fall with a $28 million roster enhanced through significant portal additions, a certain level of heightened expectations come with that. However, nothing Texas Tech faces during the regular season would compare to what Joey McGuire’s team would have to endure through multiple rounds of the playoff if winning a national championship is the end game. We saw that unfold in the first year of the expanded playoff after the Big 12 and ACC champions each lost their opening postseason games to Texas, a team loaded with 12 players who were taken in the 2025 NFL Draft. The Red Raiders hope quarterback Behren Morton will be one of the nation’s best and pulls this team toward the playoff conversation. Odds to make CFP: +450
ESPN with the x-factor for every top 25 team:
X factor: Defensive coordinator Shiel Wood
It really can’t be overstated that this defense has to be better. Texas Tech has been one of the biggest storylines of the college football offseason when it comes to roster building, largely because of the Red Raiders’ willingness to spend money. Wood comes in after tenures as defensive coordinator at Tulane in 2023 and Houston in 2024. On paper, this is a much more talented group. Statistically, it can’t be much worse. But we won’t know until the opening kickoff. — Lyles
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— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) July 16, 2025
Pro Football Focus with the projected top 10 defenses this year and Texas Tech is at #10:
The Red Raiders, well, raided the transfer portal this offseason and built up one of the best defensive lines in college football. All four projected starters are incoming transfers, and Texas Tech now has PFF’s third-ranked defensive line.
Linebacker Jacob Rodriguez is one of the better players at his position in the country, and transfers Brice Pollock and Cole Wisniewski should help a secondary that struggled last year.