The laws of probability were not in favor of the situation.
The concept of homefield advantage in the rowdy college town of Lubbock, TX suddenly seemed like an obscure detail when Texas Tech was backed up on the 35-yard line, facing a do-or-die 4th and 20 in overtime. It’d been an up-and-down day for quarterback Donovan Smith, who in the final 70 seconds of regulation, tossed a costly interception but subsequently undid the damage by leading a game-tying field goal drive as the regulation clock exhausted to triple zeros.
Smith fielded the 4th down snap in an empty set with five receivers bunched on either side of the line of scrimmage.