For the second-straight year, the Texas Tech football has to figure out how to proceed without starting QB Alan Bowman for a substantial portion of the schedule. Last year, he missed four full games and parts of two others with a collapsed lung and now a left shoulder injury is going to sideline him for up to eight weeks.
But just because a team is without its starting QB, it doesn’t mean games can’t be won. Throughout the history of college football, we’ve seen backup QBs lead their teams to great seasons.
The way that most teams are able to survive the loss of their top QB is by stepping up their play in the other areas of the game.