Texas Tech Routs North Texas
In a lopsided matchup, the Texas Tech Red Raiders routed the North Texas Mean Green 66-21 on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.
Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton led the offensive onslaught, throwing four touchdown passes and rushing for another score. The Red Raiders tied a school record by scoring 52 points in the first half, including a 42-0 run that broke the game open.
Bralyn Lux returned an interception 45 yards for a touchdown and Coy Eakin had a 70-yard TD catch as part of Texas Tech’s first-half explosion. Tahj Brooks, who missed last week’s loss to Washington State with an injury, rushed for 109 yards and a score for the Red Raiders.
North Texas quarterback Chandler Morris threw three interceptions in the second quarter as Texas Tech’s defense took control. The Mean Green’s only first-half points came on a 75-yard screen pass touchdown from Morris to Wyatt Young.
Texas Tech’s 52 first-half points tied a school record set in 2005 against Indiana State. The Red Raiders scored seven touchdowns in a 13-minute span starting late in the first quarter.
“The stuff that we asked our guys to do, they did today,” Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire said. “They did a good job of responding, especially on the defensive side of the ball.”
North Texas coach Eric Morris, who played and coached at Texas Tech, took responsibility for his team’s poor performance.
“I think from this week until next week, we’ve got to do a lot of soul searching, and that starts with me,” Morris said. “I thought that honestly, we went out and put up about as poor of a performance collectively as you can.”
The loss snapped North Texas’ two-game winning streak to start the season. Texas Tech improved to 2-1 after opening with an overtime win against Abilene Christian and losing at Washington State.
The Red Raiders extended their streak of wins against unranked non-power conference opponents to 47 games, a run that began after a loss to North Texas in 1999.
