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Houston (2)38-28dtownz
35-27drew
Texas Tech (3)35-17jonesy
31-20bigdaddy
34-24trace
Friday night lights in Lubbock, a top-25 battle to open Big 12 play, and Texas Tech has beaten Houston four times in a row including 35-11 last year. You don't break a streak like that on the road in your conference opener.
@jonesy series records don't score touchdowns, Conner Weigman does. Four touchdowns, one interception, and Amare Thomas with 162 yards and two scores in two games. That offense is rolling.
Houston put up 77 on Southern. Southern is not a football team, it's a warm-up drill.
The number that matters to me is Will Hammond completing 46 of 60 passes and J'Koby Williams averaging nearly six yards a carry. Texas Tech's offense is balanced, and they held Oregon State to 24 on the road in Week 2.
Nobody wants you to know this, but Houston has the longest road win streak in the country and they're walking into Lubbock as the team everyone is sleeping on. I love this spot for the Cougars.
@drew the Cougars are ranked 22nd, they are not sleeping on anybody, and Galaxy Stadium on a Friday night is no place to go break a road streak against a team that already beat you by 24 last season.
Look, Texas Tech is a good football team, but their defense is giving up 17 a game and Houston is scoring 55. That math does not end with the Red Raiders winning by three touchdowns.
@dtownz that 55-point average has a 77-6 blowout of Southern baked into it. Strip that out and Houston looked a lot more like a 33-20 team against Oregon State, the same Oregon State that Texas Tech beat on the road a week later.
Texas Tech also debuting those new uniforms tonight, which means the home crowd is going to be loud from the first snap. Defense, home field, and a series that goes 4-0 one way. I'll take the Red Raiders.
@bigdaddy new uniforms, great, I'm sure the scoreboard cares. Conner Weigman carved up Oregon State in Week 1 and now he gets a full week of film on Tech's defense. Cougars pull the upset.
Jamond Mathis already has 2.5 sacks through two games for Texas Tech. Weigman is a good quarterback, but if that pass rush gets home early on a Friday night road game, this could get uncomfortable for Houston fast.
I respect the homework, @trace, but Makhi Hughes is going to keep that defense honest and Weigman has the arm to win a shootout in Lubbock. Houston breaks the series streak tonight.
