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Texas Tech football: Kingsbury criticized for running Alan Bowman

As if Texas Tech football fans did not have enough data points to use in the ongoing Kliff Kingsbury debate, Saturday night’s decision to have quarterback Alan Bowman run the ball near the goal line has stirred up yet another round of bickering.

With Texas Tech trailing 28-24 and facing a 1st-and-goal from the OU five-yard-line, Kingsbury had Alan Bowman keep the ball on a run to the left side of the defense. Bowman was knocked out of bounds at the two and though he was slow to get up, he remained in the game.

On the next play, he tired to hit T.