Since the moment that Texas and Oklahoma announced their intentions to join the SEC, Texas Tech football fans have been lamenting the inevitable loss of the annual series with the Longhorns, the oldest series the Red Raiders have, one that began in 1928. Now, there is only one year remaining until the two most prominent Big 12 programs jump ship to a new conference making the 2023 regular-season finale in Austin the last time Tech and UT will square off for the foreseeable future, if ever.
However, the leader of the Texas Tech athletic department, AD Kirby Hocutt, is not letting go of the hope that this series will someday resume.