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Texas Tech football: Why turnovers are not paying off for Red Raiders in 2019

From the moment we learned that Keith Patterson would be the new defensive coordinator of the Texas Tech football team, we were told that creating turnovers would be the identity of the program on his side of the ball. After a slow start, the turnovers have started to come in waves but there’s a problem; the offense is not turning these opportunities into points.

After failing to take the ball away once in the first two games of the season, Tech has generated 13 turnovers in the last five contests, an average of 2.6 per game. With a turnover margin of plus-0.