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The Texas Tech Red Raiders football program is a college football team that represents Texas Tech University (variously "Tech" or "TTU"). The team is currently a member of the Big 12 Conference, which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The program began in 1925 and has an overall winning record. The program has a total of eleven conference titles. The team is currently coached by Mike Leach and home games are played at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.[2] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 1925–1960 1.2 1961–1985 1.3 1986–present 2 Conferences 3 Championship history 3.1 Conference championships (11) 3.2 Divisional championships (1) 4 Bowl games 5 Player accomplishments 5.1 Awards 5.2 Red Raiders in the NFL 6 References 7 External links //

History

1925–1960

Texas Tech played its first intercollegiate football game on October 3, 1925. The contest, against McMurry University, ended in a controversial 0–0 tie. Tech's Elson Archibald seemed to have kicked a game-winning 20-yard field goal but the referee ruled that the clock had run out before the score. It was later reported that the referee made the call to get revenge because he wanted to be the team's first head coach but the job was instead given to Ewing Y. Freeland.[3]

Over his four years, Freeland coached the team, known at the time as the Matadors, to 21–10–6 before handing the reins to Grady Higginbotham. Higgenbotham coached for one year, 1929, which saw only one win and two ties to seven losses. His winning percentage of .200 is the worst of any Texas Tech football coach. Pete W. Cawthon replaced Higginbotham in 1930 and led the team for the next eleven seasons. His winning percentage of .693 has not been surpassed at Texas Tech.[2][4]

For its first seven years, the program was independent, not belonging to an athletic conference. It was during Cawthon's service—in 1932—that Tech first joined a conference, the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which included five other schools at the time. Several other firsts occurred during Cawthon's tenure. In 1934, the team was first referred to as the "Red Raiders".[5] Three years later, the 1937 squad became the first team in college football to fly to a game.[6] Later that year, they received their first postseason invite—to