The biggest game of the day in college football takes place in…Tuscaloosa, Alabama. While No.2 LSU and No. 3 Alabama have the nation’s spotlight, 733 miles northwest, the Texas Tech football team will be playing fellow Big 12 doormat West Virginia with the loser facing almost certain elimination from bowl contention. The nation will be riveted!
This is a game that many Red Raider fans circled on their calendars back in January. It wasn’t because this figured to be a game with far-reaching ramifications nor because this is anything close to resembling a rivalry.
Rather, the intrigue is that new Red Raider head coach Matt Wells has to take on a man in Neal Brown, that many people in Lubbock wanted Kirby Hocutt to hire after outsing Kliff Kingsbury.