{"id":34580,"date":"2025-11-04T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/34580\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:49:18","slug":"texas-tech-ucf-set-for-230-p-m-kick-on-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/34580\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech, UCF set for 2:30 p.m. kick on FOX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech continues to be at the forefront of the national spotlight as its regular-season home finale on Nov. 15 against UCF was selected for a 2:30 p.m. kickoff on FOX, the Big 12 Conference announced on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday matinee will\u00a0also signify\u00a0Senior Day for a special group. A group\u00a0who have taken the Red Raiders to heights it hasn&#8217;t seen since the monumental 2008 campaign that also saw Texas Tech rise to the Top 10 of the national rankings and drew ESPN&#8217;s College Gameday to Lubbock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will be Texas Tech&#8217;s sixth appearance on FOX alone this season and the seventh time in 2025 that the Red Raiders will be featured on an over-the-air network (FOX, ABC), as the Red Raiders have been a regular in marquee matchups for the Big 12 this season.<\/p>\n<p>It will be only the second all-time meeting against the Knights on Nov. 15, who last visited Lubbock during their first season as a Big 12 member in 2023. It was before the league announced its four-year scheduling (2024-27) matrix, as it pit UCF and Texas Tech against one another twice, with the first trip in Lubbock in 2025 and the second in Orlando in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Raiders downed UCF in its first meeting, 24-23, behind a late blocked PAT from <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/e-maurion-banks\/13694\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13694\" target=\"_blank\">E&#8217;Maurion Banks<\/a>, which helped Texas Tech earn its sixth win and become bowl eligible in <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/joey-mcguire\/4136\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4136\" target=\"_blank\">Joey McGuire<\/a>&#8216;s second season.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech has less than 1,500 tickets remaining for the UCF game as of Monday morning. Tickets can be purchased by contacting the Athletics Ticket Office at 806-742-TECH or by visiting texastech.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 TECH \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech continues to be at the forefront of the national spotlight as its regular-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-34580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34580","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=34580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}