Texas Tech football classics: Red Raiders complete record comeback vs. Minnesota

In 2006, the Texas Tech football team pulled off the largest comeback in bowl history by rallying from a 31-point deficit to stun Minnesota. Let’s look back at just how the Red Raiders managed to do what looked to be impossible at halftime.

One of the most common complaints voiced by Texas Tech football fans about the Kliff Kingsbury era was that Tech struggled to come up with wins when trailing at halftime. Perhaps we took for granted how difficult such a task can be because of the memorable comebacks we were witness to during the Mike Leach era.

The most improbable of those came in the 2006 Insight Bowl when the Red Raiders rallied from a 38-7 third-quarter deficit to stun Minnesota 44-41…