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2012 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team

2012 Texas Tech Red Raiders football
Texas Tech Red Raiders Logo.svg
Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas champion
Conference Big 12 Conference
2012 record 8–5 (4–5 Big 12)
Head coach Tommy Tuberville (3rd year)
Offensive coordinator Neal Brown (3rd year)
Offensive scheme Spread
Defensive coordinator Art Kaufman (1st year)
Base defense 4–3 defense
Home stadium Jones AT&T Stadium
(Capacity: 60,454)
Seasons
← 2011
2013 →
2012 Big 12 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
#12 Kansas State $+   8 – 1         11 – 2  
#15 Oklahoma +   8 – 1         10 – 3  
#19 Texas   5 – 4         9 – 4  
Oklahoma State   5 – 4         8 – 5  
Baylor   4 – 5         8 – 5  
TCU   4 – 5         7 – 6  
Texas Tech   4 – 5         8 – 5  
West Virginia   4 – 5         7 – 6  
Iowa State   3 – 6         6 – 7  
Kansas   0 – 9         1 – 11  
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
Northwestern State Demons at Texas Tech Red Raiders
1 2 3 4 Total
Demons 0 3 0 3 6
• Red Raiders 7 17 3 17 44
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Texas Tech Red Raiders at Texas State Bobcats
1 2 3 4 Total
• Red Raiders 21 17 17 3 58
Bobcats 0 10 0 0 10
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New Mexico Lobos at Texas Tech Red Raiders
1 2 3 4 Total
Lobos 0 14 0 0 14
• Red Raiders 14 28 7 0 49
  • Date: September 15
  • Location: Jones AT&T Stadium
    Lubbock, TX
  • Game start: 6:05 PM CST
  • Elapsed time: 3:23
  • Game attendance: 58,955
  • Game weather: 65 °F (18 °C), Cloudy, Winds Calm
  • Referee: Eddy Shelton
  • TV announcers (FCS Pacific): Mike Gleason, Ben Leber, and Lesley McCaslin
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Texas Tech Red Raiders at Iowa State Cyclones
1 2 3 4 Total
• Red Raiders 0 7 7 10 24
Cyclones 7 0 6 0 13
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#14 Oklahoma Sooners at #24 Texas Tech Red Raiders
1 2 3 4 Total
• Sooners 7 17 17 0 41
Red Raiders 7 6 0 7 20
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The 2012 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the Big 12 Conference. Tommy Tuberville lead the Red Raiders in his third season as the program's fourteenth head coach. The Red Raiders played home games on the university's campus in Lubbock, Texas at Jones AT&T Stadium. They finished the season 8–5, 4–5 in Big 12 play to finish in a four way tie for fifth place. They were invited to the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas where they defeated Minnesota.

At the end of the regular season, Head coach Tommy Tuberville resigned to take the same position at Cincinnati. Offensive line coach Chris Thomsen was the Red Raiders interim head coach in the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas. Former Red Raider quarterback and Texas A&M offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury was hired as the new head coach beginning in 2013.

The Red Raiders set a school record for total yards allowed in a game, with only 86 being given up to the Demons. Eric Stephens scored a pair of first-half touchdowns and Kenny Williams scored on pass from Seth Doege as the Raiders opened a 24–3 halftime lead. Doege left the game before the end of the third quarter, and his replacement, Michael Brewer, threw a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns to Marcus Kennard as Texas Tech completed the season-opening rout.

Texas State came into the game after a dominating 30–13 upset over Houston, and with a capacity crowd in a newly renovated stadium in their first year in the NCAA FBS division. But Texas Tech jumped out to a quick 14–0 lead less than 5 minutes into the game, and opened a 28–0 lead halfway through the second quarter. Seth Doege threw for 319 yards and 5 touchdown passes before being pulled from action in the third quarter, and Texas Tech's defense held Texas State to just 270 total yards of offense. Cody Davis had an 88-yard interception return for a touchdown to lead Texas Tech's defense.


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