Tevin Madison intercepted Sam Richardson on Iowa State’s opening possession and Texas Tech’s offense answered by putting together a scoring drive capped by a 7-yard touchdown run from senior DeAndre Washington.
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LUBBOCK, TX -776 yards of offense and 66 points, not what Iowa State was hoping for in their trip to Texas Tech.
Still not done making an example of the Cyclones, Texas Tech’s final touchdown of the ballgame came on 53 yard run from the relatively unknown Demarcus Felton.
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Much like a “shut down inning” in baseball, the Red Raiders defense stood up following the Jakeem Grant touchdown, forcing an Iowa State three and out on the Cyclones third offensive series.
“I think everybody is just very frustrated and disappointed in themselves because they know that we could have played a lot better and that, I mean, we lost to a good team today, but we also didn’t play as well as our potential”, he said.
Minimizing penalties was a summer goal for Texas Tech as the Red Raiders were the most penalized team in the Big 12 last season.
Joshua Thomas scored the Iowa State touchdown from a yard out, his second of the day making the score 38-21 at the intermission.
After being penalized 17 times against Baylor last week – the most flags Texas Tech has drawn this season – the Red Raiders responded with a fairly clean performance against Iowa State. With multiple wide receivers out with injuries, such as Ian Sadler, Devin Lauderdale, and with QB Patrick Mahomes, still somewhat hampered by a knee injury he got early in the TCU loss. He caught a 3-yard touchdown from Mahomes and a 21-yarder from backup Davis Webb who took over for Mahomes in the fourth quarter. 5 Baylor last week.
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The Red Raiders hadn’t won a game since finishing up their nonconference schedule with a win at Arkansas in September. So far in this season Iowa State Cyclones has 28.3 scored compared to Texas Tech Red Raiders’s 32.6. Mahomes could go down as one of the great Texas Tech quarterbacks ever. Grant cut back to the middle of the field and used at least two blockers to get into the end zone.
