{"id":448673,"date":"2026-09-26T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448673\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:48:08","slug":"double-pick-6s-texas-tech-lb-austin-romaine-returns-2-interceptions-for-tds-on-consecutive-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448673\/","title":{"rendered":"Double pick-6s: Texas Tech LB Austin Romaine returns 2 interceptions for TDs on consecutive passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/texas-tech-red-raiders-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech<\/a> linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/austin-romaine-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Romaine<\/a> returned two interceptions for touchdowns on consecutive passes thrown by Sam Houston State in the opening minute of the second quarter Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The No. 11 Red Raiders led only 7-0 before fellow linebacker Brock Gowlas leaped to deflect a pass thrown by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/brett-holloway-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Holloway<\/a>. Romaine, who had also jumped, then grabbed the ball out of the air and ran 15 yards for a touchdown with 14:54 left in the first half. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">On the first play after the ensuing kickoff, Bearcats starting quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/landyn-locke-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Landyn Locke<\/a> was back in the game, and his pass on first down was picked off by Romaine. That 31-yard return made it 21-0, only seven seconds after his first pick-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Romaine is a senior transfer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/college-football\/kansas-state-wildcats-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas State<\/a>, who had 184 tackles (110 solo) the past three seasons with the Wildcats. His only interception for K-State came in a game against Texas Tech last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here. Visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Tech linebacker Austin Romaine returned two interceptions for touchdowns on consecutive passes thrown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,146853,154540,261,789,154541,415],"class_list":["post-448673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-romaine","tag-brett-holloway","tag-college-football","tag-kansas-state-wildcats","tag-landyn-locke","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448673","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=448673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}