{"id":385995,"date":"2026-07-25T04:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385995\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:39:13","slug":"petes-pigskin-preview-west-texas-tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385995\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete\u2019s Pigskin Preview: West Texas Tornadoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The West Texas Tornadoes are entering their third season of competition, and their first with new head coach Tracy Spencer, who is moving up from assistant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The program has reached the playoffs in its first two seasons, and is looking to do the same in its third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019ll do some of the traditional things. We\u2019ll go some tight and we\u2019ll go some spread. Really, we have lots of talent. We have six returning players, four of those were starters and so we\u2019re actually starting the season off at a pretty good point,\u201d Spencer said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some other players join and they\u2019ve meshed in with the team very well so we have high expectations this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The West Texas Tornadoes will play their home games at Wilson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pete\u2019s Pigskin Previews are sponsored by Grid Iron Bells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">2026 Schedule, kickoff times 7 p.m. unless noted otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>8\/28\t@ McLean 9\/4 @ Roscoe Highland, 7:30 p.m.9\/11\tMidland TLCA, 7:30 p.m.9\/18\tPlainview Classical 9\/25\t@ Hermleigh10\/2\t@ Loop10\/9\tGrandfalls-Royalty10\/17\tAmarillo PCHEA*, 5 p.m.10\/23\t@ Amarillo FFC*, 7:30 p.m.10\/29\t@ Amherst11\/6\tBYE<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The West Texas Tornadoes are entering their third season of competition, and their first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[586,136078,136080,597,27,29,28,136079],"class_list":["post-385995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-high-school-football","tag-homeschool-football","tag-petes-pigskin-previews","tag-taiao-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-west-texas-tornadoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385995","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=385995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}