This year marks the 10th anniversary of the most successful Texas Tech football season of the modern era. It was a season that has come to define the “Air Raid” era of Red Raider football and one upon which the program is still living in many ways.
Red Raider fans have long felt that the national media do not pay their program enough respect and as proof they often point to preseason polls. But in 2008, Tech was highly-regarded by virtually every national pundit.
Tech’s No. 14 preseason ranking in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll was its highest to being a season since checking in at No.