At the Net

Texas Tech volleyball fell to West Virginia in 5 sets, which is a bummer of a loss, but maybe they can rebound against Cincinnati on Friday.

On the Hardwood

The Lady Raiders host SMU tonight at 6:00 p.m. at the United Supermarkets Arena. It was also signing day and the Lady Raiders signed 6 players as part of their 2026-27 class.

On the Pitch

Texas Tech soccer signed 8 players as part of their 2026-27 class.

On the Gridiron

This week’s What’s Next with Joey McGuire and Robert Giovannetti:

The Big 12 availability report for UCF and Texas Tech:

OUT
DL #0 Skyler Gill-Howard
WR #4 T.J. West
WR #17 Leyton Stone
WR #18 Roy Alexander
OL #57 Hunter Zambrano

QUESTIONABLE
DL #2 Lee Hunter
LB #10 Jacob Rodriguez

PROBABLE
QB #2 Behren Morton
LB #6 John Curry

ESPN’s Bill Connelly with the fatal flaw for every CFP contender:

Texas Tech (average CFP odds: 90.1%): Quarterback. On one hand, Tech has played a pretty weak schedule featuring only two SP+ top-40 opponents. On the other hand, after Saturday’s win over BYU, the Red Raiders have beaten those two opponents by a combined 63-17. The dream season rolls on in Lubbock. But the school of Patrick Mahomes and the Air Raid’s legacy is still merely good throwing the ball, not great. Behren Morton is (A) injury-prone and (B) only 45th in Total QBR, and while the Red Raiders have scored 34 or more eight times, they’re 53rd in three-and-out rate and are mortal against good defenses.

Also from ESPN’s Bill Connelly with re-ranking every Power 4 quarterbacks:

22. Behren Morton, Texas Tech
Last Rank: 28 | Total QBR: 68.1 | Pass Yds: 1,969 | Rush Yds (no sack): 62 | Total TDs: 16

He makes me nervous and takes a lot of hits (and has missed time with multiple injuries because of it), but there’s no question that Morton has taken a solid step forward this year, improving to career highs in Total QBR, completion rate (65.7%), yards per completion (13.9) and most of the other stats by which we judge QBs.