LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton is considered day-to-day for the seventh-ranked Red Raiders after coming out of a game for the third time this season, the second because of hurting his right leg while getting sacked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat dude\u2019s the toughest kid I\u2019ve ever coached. His pain tolerance and just toughness and care factor is really high,\u201d Tech coach Joey McGuire said Monday. \u201cSo he\u2019s day-to-day. We\u2019ll see how he feels.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Red Raiders (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) have their highest AP Top 25 ranking<\/a> since 2008 as they get ready to play Saturday at defending Big 12 champion Arizona State (4-2, 2-1), a team they beat last season<\/a>.<\/p>\n Morton was injured Saturday night on a sack in the second quarter of a 42-17 victory over Kansas<\/a>. McGuire said then the injury was similar to one the coach called a hyperextended right knee sustained in the opener<\/a> against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The injury in that 67-7 victory also came before halftime.<\/p>\n \u201cHe feels a lot better than what he did after the Arkansas-Pine Bluff game,\u201d McGuire said.<\/p>\n In another game Sept. 20, Texas Tech led by just a touchdown when Morton exited a 34-10 victory at then-No. 16 Utah<\/a> early in the second half after taking a hard hit to the helmet on a scramble.<\/p>\n Morton has completed 104 of 152 passes (68.4%) for 1,501 yards with 13 touchdowns and three interceptions. Two of those picks came against the Utes before he was hurt.<\/p>\n Backup Will Hammonds has come off the bench each time for Morton to help Tech remain undefeated. The Red Raiders also have Mitch Griffis, a Wake Forest transfer who decided to play again after sitting out last season.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a>. AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton is considered day-to-day for the seventh-ranked Red Raiders after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1892,1890,261,416,300,1888,305,1889,168,170,169,1893,154,27,415,1891,1760,1894],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-ap-top-25-college-football-poll","tag-big-12-conference","tag-college-football","tag-college-sports","tag-football","tag-joey-mcguire","tag-kansas","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-mitch-griffis","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders-football","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-will-hammonds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}