Reliving Texas’ 2022 loss to Texas Tech: “I told you they’d break”

After beating Texas last season, Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire said, “I told you they’d break.”

The Texas Tech Red Raiders come to town for a season finale on Black Friday. Their return brings to mind one of the two lowest points of the Texas Longhorns’ 2022 regular season.

Texas Tech hosted Texas in Week 4 of last season. The game started about as well as Texas could have imagined as the team marched down and put seven points on the board on an early touchdown to Longhorns running back Keilan Robinson. From there, the Red Raiders turned the game into a battle.

After the initial score, Tech started a back in forth that at one point had the Raiders up 14-10. The Longhorns appeared to have quieted the storm with two unanswered touchdowns and a 24-14 lead entering the half. In reality it was far from over.

The Red Raiders attempted fourth down after fourth down, failing on many of them. Yet their aggressiveness helped erase a 14-point second half lead while Texas’ defensive passivity brought the game to a 34-34 tie to end regulation.

Texas Tech won that game 37-34 in overtime, but it was their head coach’s postgame comments that stole the headlines. Joey McGuire said the following.

“I told you they were going to break and they did. I told you they were going to break and they did. The reporter asked me at the end, she says, ‘What’s it mean to win this game and beat Texas?’ I said, ‘It doesn’t mean anything to beat Texas. We’re 1-0 in the Big 12.’ … The country’s gonna find out, everything runs through Lubbock.”

McGuire might have been right about that Texas team, but he underestimated the current Longhorns squad in his offseason comments. So far this season, this team does not break.

Texas will look to make another team pay for talking down on the Longhorns before playing them. The game will take place Friday at 6:30 p.m. CT on ABC.