Texas Tech Red Raiders Preview 2022: Season Prediction, Breakdown, Key Games, Players

Texas Tech College Football Preview 2022: Team breakdown, season prediction, keys to the campaign, and what you need to know

Texas Tech Red Raiders Preview 2022: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the Texas Tech season with what you need to know and keys to the season.


Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews & @PeteFiutak

[mm-video type=playlist id=01f1343a1wt7q817p7 player_id=none image=https://collegefootballnews.com/wp-content/plugins/mm-video/images/playlist-icon.png]

Texas Tech Red Raiders Preview
Head Coach: Joey McGuire, 1st year at Texas Tech
2021 Preview: Overall: 7-6, Conference: 3-6
Offense, Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
Texas Tech Top 10 Players
Texas Tech Schedule & Analysis

Texas Tech Red Raiders Preview 2022

Texas Tech is looking to have its cake and eat it, too.

It’s Texas Tech. You know the branding.

Lots of offense, more offense, a rumor of a defense, lots of yards, lots of fun, and the other team wins.

Texas Tech was able to bust a brutal stretch of five straight losing seasons, and it took a Liberty Bowl win over Mike Leach’s Mississippi State team to get there.

In comes Joey McGuire to take over as the new coach, representing the first time since hiring Tommy Tuberville that the program went with a defensive-minded head man. The difference being that Tuberville was already an established guy. This is McGuire’s first head coaching job after helping Dave Aranda’s Baylor defense over the last two years.

So the goal is for there to be more of a defensive-mindset to the Texas Tech program … to a point.

There’s going to be more pressure, more attacking, and more of an emphasis on coming up with big plays. Meanwhile, the offense is about to make Texas Tech look the part again.

Western Kentucky’s offense had a hard time scoring for a few years. Head coach Tyson Helton had enough of that, so he brought in Houston Baptist offensive coordinator Zach Kittley, star QB Bailey Zappe, and as many parts to one of the best attacks in the FCS to spice things up.

The Hilltoppers offensively went from zero to hero almost instantly.

Texas Tech already has the parts, and McGuire was able to tap Kittley to come in and make them all create the same magic he bought to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Combine that O with McGuire’s D and this will be one dangerous team to make the Big 12 freak out.

Considering what’s coming with all of the changes in the league for the next few years, Texas Tech might just have the right combination to become a major player.

At the very least, this is one of the hot programs now in a conference that’s about to bring aboard a whole lot of energy with the new schools coming in 2023.

Offense, Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
Texas Tech Top 10 Players
Texas Tech Schedule & Analysis

Texas Tech Red Raiders Preview 2022: Offense, Defense NEXT

Texas Tech Red Raiders Top 10 Players: College Football Preview 2022

Who are the top 10 Texas Tech players going into the 2022 college football season?

Texas Tech Red Raiders Preview 2022: Who are the top 10 players going into the season?


Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews & @PeteFiutak

[mm-video type=playlist id=01f1343a1wt7q817p7 player_id=none image=https://collegefootballnews.com/wp-content/plugins/mm-video/images/playlist-icon.png]

Texas Tech Red Raiders Preview 
Texas Tech 2022 Preview
Offense, Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
Texas Tech Schedule & Analysis 

Texas Tech Red Raiders: CFN College Football Preview 2021

College Football News Preview 2021: Previewing, predicting, looking ahead to the Texas Tech Red Raiders season with what you need to know.

College Football News Preview 2021: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the Texas Tech Red Raiders season with what you need to know.


Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews & @PeteFiutak

– What You Need To Know: Offense | Defense
Top Players | Key Players, Games, Stats
What Will Happen, Win Total Prediction
Texas Tech Schedule Analysis
– Texas Tech Previews
2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015

[mm-video type=playlist id=01f1343a1wt7q817p7 player_id=none image=https://collegefootballnews.com/wp-content/plugins/mm-video/images/playlist-icon.png]

2020 Record: 4-6 overall, 3-6 in Big 12
Head Coach: Matt Wells, 3rd year, 8-14 (52-48 overall)
2020 CFN Final Ranking: 79
2020 CFN Preview Ranking: 56
2019 CFN Final Ranking: 102

Texas Tech College Football Preview 2021: Offense

It’s not the fun and flash of past Texas Tech offenses despite working under a head coach in Matt Wells who knows how to crank up the yards. In comes former Red Raider QB Sonny Cumbie as the offensive coordinator, and he likes to throw. 429 yards per game last year was the cost of doing business in the Big 12 – it’s not special. That’s about to change.

The quarterback play has been fine, but it hasn’t been steady. Alan Bowman struggled to stay healthy, and now he’s at Michigan. Henry Columbi is a nice all-around option, but the O needs a superstar.

Enter Tyler Shough. The Oregon transfer led the way to a Pac-12 title last year, but just as he was supposed to grow into the job, he left for Lubbock. If it all goes well, he’s got No. 1 overall pick skills

The receiving corps is there for Shough to shine – even with Ja’Lynn Polk off to Washington and KeSean Carter leaving for Houston. 6-3, 220-pound junior Eric Uzekanma is back after leading the team with 46 catches with six scores, Myles Price is a quick target, and Shough should make everyone around him produce.

– The running game is never ignored in this attack. SaRodorick Thompson led the way with 610 yards and eight scores – he’s a 6-0, 210-pound all-around back who can carry the offense if needed – and Xavier White and Tahj Brooks are good enough to be used in a rotation.

Thanks to the whole super senior season, four starters are expected to return to an offensive line that was solid in pass protection and should be one of the team’s biggest strengths.

– What You Need To Know: Defense
Top Players | Key Players, Games, Stats
What Will Happen, Win Total Prediction
Texas Tech Schedule Analysis

NEXT: Texas Tech College Football Preview 2021: Defense