Look. Early on, Texas Tech didn’t win many bowl games. It just didn’t happen. I mean, we’re now on the Red Raiders third trip to the Sun Bowl and Texas Tech’s fourth ever bowl game and we’re still talking about a loss for the Red Raiders.
That’s not great. TTU’s early bowl history was just full of disappointing loss after disappointing loss. And one thing that makes that even worse is how close some of these losses happen to be. Pete Cawthon, who guided the Red Raiders to their first couple of bowl games, lost both by a combined eight points.