Texas Tech hosts UTEP tonight inside Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders and the Miners will square off on Fox Sports Southwest Plus for a 7 p.m. (CT) kickoff.
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FIRST QUARTER
–Texas Tech drew first blood on a 5-yard touchdown run by Ta’Zhawn Henry capping a 9-play, 50-yard scoring drive. 7-0 Tech–11:14
SECOND QUARTER
–Texas Tech leads 7-0 to open the second stanza.
–A 13-yard TD pass from Alan Bowman to T.J. Vasher capped a 10-play, 77-yard drive that took 3:30. 14-0 Tech–10:41 .
–Bowman threw his second touchdown on the night, this time to Dalton Rigdon on a screen pass which he took 49 yards to paydirt. 21-0–1:35.
THIRD QUARTER
–Texas Tech opened the second half with a 12-play, 44-yard scoring drive capped by a 45-yard field goal from Trey Wolff. 24-0 Tech–11:26.
–The Red Raiders pushed their lead to 31-0 on Alan Bowman’s third touchdown pass, his second to Vasher, this time from 30 yards out. 31-0 Tech–1:37.
New rule.If we’re playing in Lubbock at night, the guys are wearing black.??#WreckEm?? pic.twitter.com/CbNW2fe9ih
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COACH WELLS SPEAKS
“Play it as it lies. You don’t get any bumps in the fairway or the rough. You play the schedule as it lies. It’s all about us. Everything is about us. It’s what we do, how we do it. The respect for your opponent will be there every single week. I think you respect your opponent by your preparation. I’m trying to teach our guys how to do that. Our staff is trying to teach our guys how to do that. The investment you put into preparation, it doesn’t matter who the opponent is on Saturday, whether it’s a league game or non-league game, whether it’s at home or on the road, you don’t leave. You don’t leave victory to chance on Saturday. You prepare the same way, you invest the same way. That’s how you respect your opponent.
“I 100% respect UTEP. We’ll have to play better than we did Saturday to win the game this week. Our guys have to understand that. I believe in how we’re going to practice on Monday. This afternoon is the most important thing I’m worried about right now. The rest of the preparation, as soon as I get out of here, start continuing to game plan. But the preparation this afternoon and the practice is all I’m worried about, then tomorrow morning 6:30 game plan, install meeting. That’s all that’s on my mind. All that needs to be on the players’ minds. We have to instill that as an attitude to them, it’s all about us, what we do, how we prepare. You don’t just wing it on game day and roll the ball out and win. That doesn’t happen, I don’t believe. I don’t believe you can do that once we get to this league. Everything we do has to be the same or equal or more investment every single week.”
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