Penalty Problems: Tracking Texas Tech football team’s penalties vs. UTEP

Each week this season, let’s take a look at how the Red Raiders are doing when it comes to fixing the Texas Tech football program’s long-running penalty problem.

The Texas Tech football team has been so heavily penalized over the last two decades that even the most casual of fans know that the school’s unofficial third color has become yellow. For example, my wife (who watches only a handful of Tech games each year) automatically assumes that the Red Raiders are going to be penalized every time she sees the penalty indication light up on the TV score bug.

Over the years she, like most Tech fans, has become shell-shocked by the program’s inability to stay away from drawing the wrath of the…