Texas Tech vs SMU Preview - Record 0-0 | Wisdom of the Crowd

Where: Gerald Ford Stadium, Dallas TX

When: 3:00 PM Monday September 3rd

TV: ESPN

So you ready for some football?

Since the amazing, record setting come-from-behind win against Minnesota in last year’s bowl, the Red Raider Nation has been hankerin’ for the next game. We’ve had recruiting, spring ball, summer camp and now it’s time to put it on the line and see what there is too see. And it’s about time. According to this year’s Texas Tech Media Guide, the season’s already over as the guys in Lubbock missed a little typo and have a whole section dedicated to the 2007 Season Review. So either my weekly previews will be right on, or they wanted to review the 2006 season.

Back in the Spike **** era, when the Southwest Conference was starting to falter, he believed in playing big games to open up the season. Hence some **** whippin’s by Florida State, OU (pre-Big 12) and Tennessee. Given all the BS with the BCS and the strength of the Big 12 South, there’s really no reason for this anymore (Tell Don Williams, the sports reporter, not the singer to pipe down). So off Tech goes to Dallas to play to only school who was dumb enough to get caught with the death penalty.

(Quick, which conference is SMU a member of???)

Basically this whole game comes down to one position. Quarterback. Will Harrell out-perform Justin Willis (who happened to save his coaches job by threatening to transfer if they fired him)? Both QBs are entering the second year at the helm of their respective offense. Both guys had very good first years, with ups and downs including benchings, suspensions and a ton of yards and touchdowns.

Overall, Tech should easily handle this opponent. Overall, just like UTs talent is superior to Tech’s, Tech’s is vastly better to SMUs. The last three games to open the season against SMU, Tech has averaged 40 pts, to SMU’s 9. I’m guessing a slow start with an explosive 2^nd and 3^rd quarters for a minimum 17 pt win.

Or Tech pulls a TCU game and gets a whopping 3pts and we start looking to next year right out of the gate.

Warning – Look for some excitement if this gets out of hand in Tech’s favor. A few year’s ago the coaches almost came to blows because SMU thought Leach was running up the score on them.

Fun w/ Numbers:

Vegas line – 9.5

Tech’s Season Opener Record – 52-26-3

Tech’s Record vs. SMU – 28-15

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