Given how often the Texas Tech football team has lost close games in the last handful of years, the program’s nickname should be “Moral Victory U”. That’s a trend that has kept Red Raider football from finally putting an end to its backward slide over the course of the last decade.
Just look at how many close losses we’ve seen against Power 5 teams since 2010. Four one-score losses in 2019 bring Tech’s total in that awful category to 23 in this decade. That means 35.3% of this program’s losses have come by eight points or fewer. Perhaps even more maddening is the fact that since 2016, 48.