2018 is the ten-year anniversary of the best season in Texas Tech football history. In 2008, George W. Bush was still in the White House, Kliff Kingsbury was in his first season as an offensive quality control assistant with the Houston Cougars and Kirby Hocutt was in his first season as the athletic director at Miami.
Also, that year, Mike Leach, Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree led Texas Tech to the highest ranking in program history when Tech found itself at No. 2 in the polls in November. But unfortunately, the golden age of Red Raider football did not last much longer.