5 keystone players for Texas Tech’s offense in 2020

Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images Do we really need to still talk about last season?

Yea - unfortunately we do. Matt Wells and the Red Raiders had a historically disappointing season last year. Wells had the worst first season as a Texas Tech HC since Jerry Moore went 1-9-1 in 1981. Sports Reference College Football’s “Strength of Schedule” metric indicated it would be the easiest season since 2009, when Mike Leach won 9 games including the Alamo Bowl. Yet when they finished the season, their SRS (Simple Rating System) was a -0.65, only the second time it had been in the negatives since 2000 (other occurrence was 2014 at a -3.56). There were injuries, including those towards primary…