After seeing the Texas Tech football team play two refreshingly disciplined games to open the 2019 season, many were excited about the thought that perhaps Matt Wells will be the head coach to finally remedy the program’s long-running penalty woes. However, we also wondered whether or not the penalties would rise when the competition became tougher and unfortunately that appears to be the case.
After being flagged just four times each in the first two games of the season, the Red Raiders have been close to repeating their penalty numbers from 2018, which saw them rank in the bottom 10 nationally in penalties and penalty yards per game.