Texas Tech football: How Red Raiders can survive until Alan Bowman returns

The Texas Tech football team can survive without Alan Bowman by picking up its play in other areas of the game such as on the ground and on special teams.

Life without starting QB Alan Bowman is not going to be easy for the Texas Tech football team. For proof, we need to look no further than back to last season.

When Bowman was 100% healthy, the Red Raiders sat at 3-1 and were fresh off an upset of Oklahoma State to end a 9-game losing streak to the Cowboys. But when he left game five against West Virginia with his first collapsed lung, everything changed.

Prior to the WVU game, Tech averaged 52 points per game but saw that number dip to 29.4 after the fifth game. Amazingly, in the four…