{"id":31514,"date":"2025-11-02T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31514\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T02:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:33:07","slug":"espns-college-gameday-returns-to-lubbock-next-week-for-tech-byu-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31514\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s College GameDay returns to Lubbock next week for Tech-BYU game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Just minutes the clock expired on Texas Tech\u2019s 43-20 win at Kansas State, ESPN announced on social media that their iconic Saturday morning show, College GameDay, would return to Lubbock for the first time since 2008- when then No.7 Tech beat No. 1 Texas 39-33, courtesy of Graham Harrell\u2019s last-second pass to Michael Crabtree- a play that has become legendary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For some of the players, a chance to be featured on \u2018Game Day\u2019 is a long-time coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cLubbock\u2019s going to be jumping for sure. I know this is a big thing for Texas Tech, it\u2019s been some time since they\u2019ve come to Lubbock, so I\u2019m excited about it,\u201d said quarterback Behren Morton moments after GameDay was announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since head coach Joey McGuire has long prided himself on being a \u2018players coach\u2019, he says GameDay is a great opportunity for the program and his players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s just so special to have college football, because as a player- it\u2019s a dream to be a part of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More details for the \u2018GameDay\u2019 setup will be disclosed throughout the week. The Red Raiders take the field against the BYU Cougars 11 a.m. Saturday at Jones AT&amp;T Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Just minutes the clock expired on Texas Tech\u2019s 43-20 win at Kansas State, ESPN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20725,17321,794,261,20727,7000,20726,168,170,169,874,415,873],"class_list":{"0":"post-31514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-brigham-young-university","9":"tag-byu","10":"tag-byu-cougars","11":"tag-college-football","12":"tag-college-game-day","13":"tag-espn","14":"tag-espn-collegegameday","15":"tag-lubbock","16":"tag-lubbock-headlines","17":"tag-lubbock-news","18":"tag-texas-tech-football","19":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","20":"tag-texas-tech-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31514","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=31514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}