Just because two rival schools aren\u2019t in the same league anymore doesn\u2019t mean that beef dies.<\/p>\n
Just ask Texas and Texas Tech.<\/p>\n
In the latest round of barbs being traded in the Lone Star State, Texas Tech as upped the ante, and perhaps pulling off unprecedented feat.<\/p>\n
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At Big 12 spring meetings, Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire has said that he\u2019s called Texas State and Abilene Christian about canceling their Week 1 games with Texas and Texas Tech.<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
So, McGuire and the Red Raiders can rekindle a rivalry with the Texas Longhorns and head coach Steve Sarksian<\/a>.<\/p>\n Even willing to make it a neutral site game at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, TX.<\/p>\n This comes after Sark called out Texas Tech regarding their schedule and path to the College Football Playoff recently.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a team in our state in another conference with a schedule that I would argue, if I played with our twos and threes [on the depth chart], we could go undefeated,\u201d Sarkisian said recently. \u201cAnd they\u2019ll probably make the CFP this year.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Noted Texas Tech benefactor Cody Campbell has even gotten in on the fun, willing to fund the buyout for both of Texas Tech and UT\u2019s Week 1 opener.<\/p>\n Texas, it appears the ball is in your court.<\/p>\n Read the original article on al.com<\/a>. Add al.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just because two rival schools aren\u2019t in the same league anymore doesn\u2019t mean that beef dies. Just ask…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30026,262,1888,27,29,537,28,1769],"class_list":["post-313564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-abilene-christian","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-joey-mcguire","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313564","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=313564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}