High on the list of best teams to come through Jones Stadium are the 1990 Miami Hurricanes, and Texas Tech caught the ’Canes at a bad time. They were talented and they were angry, the defending national champions showing up in Lubbock a week after losing at Notre Dame.
This was a year after the Red Raiders lost seven senior offensive linemen who escorted tailback James Gray to a second-team all-America season.
See a perfect storm brewing?
In a rare late October non-conference game, Miami smashed Tech 45-10, the score not telling the story quite as thoroughly as the stats.