One Texas Tech fan is facing a serious dilemma.
No. 8 Texas Tech is preparing to face No. 7 BYU in a game so important that ESPN’s College GameDay returned to Lubbock for the first time in 17 years.
Taylor Karrh, a lifelong Red Raider fan, might have to miss it — for his wedding.
Karrh scheduled his wedding to fiancée Rachael Lenhart for Friday in Dallas, intentionally to avoid a potential conflict with football season. It just so happened to land on the biggest weekend of the Red Raiders’ season thus far.
Sports Roundup
Karrh said in a post on X that his soon-to-be wife would agree to move the wedding if he could get 1 million reposts on his post. As of Saturday morning, Karrh was just under 3,000 reposts.
“I don’t think we’re going to be in very good shape to make a drive to Lubbock first thing Saturday morning,” Karrh said in an interview on KCBD News Channel. “It’s just, it’s very hard to get there.”
Related
According to Google Maps, the drive from Dallas to Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock will take just over five hours. With the Red Raiders’ kickoff slated for 11 a.m., the couple would need to depart Dallas before 6 a.m. to make it on time for kickoff. They would have to leave even earlier to make it for the pregame ESPN College GameDay show.
“Honestly, like it is a fall wedding,” Karrh said. “And that’s like the joke that’s going on X is that, you don’t book fall weddings, but we did book it for a Friday.”
Karrh and Lenhart told KCBD News Channel they plan to watch Saturday’s game from a bar in Dallas.
Texas Tech is enjoying its best season since 2008 at 8-1. The Red Raiders are 8-1 and firmly in the College Football Playoff picture. Saturday’s matchup against BYU has major implications for the Big 12 championship, as well as the College Football Playoff.
“We are expecting bigger games this year,” Karrh said. “I’ll put those in my back pocket.”
JT Toppin debuts with 31 points, and 14 rebounds as No. 10 Texas Tech beats Sam HoustonTexas Tech legend Patrick Mahomes announced as College GameDay guest picker in Lubbock
Find more Texas Tech coverage from The Dallas Morning News here.