Texas Tech football: Turning points that kept Tech from threatening OU

The Texas Tech football team wasn’t supposed to be Oklahoma on Saturday but some key turning points turned the game into an embarrassment.

Any number of sayings would describe the Texas Tech football team’s experience in Norman on Saturday. Mess with the bull, you get the horns, some may say. While others might remind us that, Sometimes you’re the windshield and sometimes you’re the bug.

But however you want to put it, what we saw from the Red Raiders in this year’s Big 12 opener was abysmal. The 39-point loss was the largest defeat the program has ever suffered in a conference opener.

What’s more, it was Tech’s worst loss to Oklahoma since the nightmarish 44-point loss in 2008. And it was the…