Texas Tech football all-decade team: The running backs

Today, we look at the all-decade running backs for the Texas Tech football team, a list that begins with the best Red Raider RB of the last 20 years.

Before Texas Tech became known as the epicenter of the passing game revolution for college football, Lubbock was home to some of the best running backs in the nation for decades. In fact, the program’s first national star was a RB.

Nicknamed the “Golden Palomino” Borger, Texas native Donny Anderson was a top-4 finisher in the 1965 Heisman Trophy voting and became the first player from Texas Tech to be a household name for football fans. Thus began a long tradition of star running backs to come through Lubbock.

Since then, names such as James…