Defining expectations for any team in the first year of a new coaching staff is rather difficult. That’s why the 2019 Texas Tech football season is open to personal interpretation.
Some may believe that nothing short of a bowl appearance should be considered acceptable. Though Red Rader fans should have stopped taking for granted the opportunity to play in a 13th game after missing the postseason in three of the last six seasons, many in West Texas still believe that a bowl game is the floor of what this program should produce each year.
That’s especially true for the generation of fans that grew up on Tech football in the late 90s and 2000s when we saw the Red Raiders in a bowl every year from 2000-2010.