Texas–Texas Tech football rivalry
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Sport | College football |
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First meeting | October 6, 1928 Texas 12, Texas Tech 0 |
Latest meeting | September 25, 2021 Texas 70, Texas Tech 35 |
Next meeting | September 24, 2022 |
Stadiums | Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium (Texas) Jones AT&T Stadium (Texas Tech) |
Trophy | Chancellor's Spurs |
Statistics | |
Meetings total | 71 |
All-time series | Texas leads, 54–17[1] |
Trophy series | Texas leads, 20–6 |
Largest victory | Texas, 58–7 (1999) |
Longest win streak | Texas, 8 (1958–1966) |
Current win streak | Texas, 4 (2018–present) |
The Texas–Texas Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry[2] between the Texas Longhorns and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. The Battle For The Chancellor's Spurs is known as one of the most prolific FBS Division I football rivalries, this series has been uninterrupted since the 1960 college football season. There are four other schools within the state that both Texas and Texas Tech consider rivals.[3] [4]
Chancellor's Spurs[]
The Chancellor's Spurs is the trophy awarded to the winner of the game. The trophy is a set of spurs exchanged between the chancellors of the University of Texas System and Texas Tech University System. The teams first played during the 1928 season and have played annually since 1960 when Texas Tech began participating in the Southwest Conference. The tradition of a "traveling trophy" between the two universities began during the 1996 season when, for the first time, both universities' administration included a chancellor position; the Texas Tech University System was established and the system's first chancellor, John T. Montford, started the exchange of the Chancellor's Spurs between the two universities.[5][6] The 46th meeting between the teams marked the first game the winner would receive the Chancellor's Spurs. The spurs are gold and silver and engraved with Texas Tech's Double T and Texas' interlocking UT logo.[6]
History[]
The first meeting took place in 1928, which Texas won 12–0. The Longhorns and Red Raiders only faced each other nine times until 1960.[7] Since 1960, both teams have played annually as members of the Southwest Conference through 1995 and from 1996 as charter members of the Big 12 Conference.[8] The 2008 game was one of three games that led to a 3-way tie controversy in the Big 12 Conference South Division. Texas leads the series 52–17; the Longhorns are 19–7 against the Red Raiders since 1994. Texas Tech's 48–45 victory in 2015 was their first in Austin since 1997. It also ended the Longhorns' six-game winning streak; the Red Raiders hadn't beaten Texas since doing so in Lubbock on November 1, 2008, 39–33.
Game results[]
Texas victories | Texas Tech victories |
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See also[]
- List of NCAA college football rivalry games
References[]
- ^ a b "Winsipedia - Texas Longhorns vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders football series history". Winsipedia.
- ^ Soliz, Brandon (June 28, 2017). "College Sports: Who are the five biggest rivals in Texas Tech sports?". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
- ^ Siegel, Ezra (April 19, 2018). "Texas' 5 best rivalries: Who are the Longhorns' biggest rivals, A&M or Oklahoma?". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
- ^ {Soliz, Brandon (June 28, 2017). "College Sports: Who are the five biggest rivals in Texas Tech sports?". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
- ^ "Lobbyist to become Texas Tech University System chancellor – Houston Chronicle". Chron.com. October 18, 2006. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- ^ a b Marlena Hartz (December 14, 2008). "Texas Tech chancellor reclaims spurs from Texas | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal". Lubbock Online. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- ^ "Texas Tech Game by Game against Opponents". Cfbdatawarehouse.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2014. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- ^ "Texas Tech Historical Data". Cfbdatawarehouse.com. Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- College football rivalries in the United States
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- 1928 establishments in Texas