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Texas Tech football: Night games at The Jones have not been advantage recently

This week, the Texas Tech football team will conclude its home schedule with the rare Big 12 night game. This will be just the 13th Big 12 game Tech has played under the stars in Lubbock this decade and though fans might believe that kicking off after the sun sets gives the home team an advantage, that hasn’t been the case for our beloved Red Raiders since the end of the Leach era.

In 2010, Tech dropped a 24-14 contest to Texas in which Taylor Potts and the offense mustered just one touchdown. But later that season, the famed Jones Stadium magic helped the Red Raiders stun No.