{"id":448687,"date":"2026-09-26T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448687\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T19:12:08","slug":"watch-texas-techs-austin-romaine-with-pick-6s-on-back-to-back-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448687\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Texas Tech&#8217;s Austin Romaine with pick-6s on back-to-back plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech<\/a> linebacker Austin Romaine made the play of his life <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/article\/texas-tech-sam-houston-prediction-will-hammond-22446386.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against Sam Houston<\/a> on Saturday \u2014 and then did it again about two minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>On the first play of the second quarter, Romaine picked off a deflected pass thrown by Sam Houston\u00a0QB Brett Holloway and returned it 15 yards for a touchdown, the first of his collegiate career.<\/p>\n<p>On the first play after the ensuing kickoff, Romaine was there once again. He picked off another pass and ran it back once again, a 31-yard pick-6 this time that extended the Red Raiders&#8217; lead to 21-0. Only seven seconds of game time elapsed between Romaine&#8217;s touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Romaine is in his first season with Texas Tech after spending the previous three with Kansas State. He&#8217;d only tallied one interception in his prior three seasons. He was third on the Red Raiders&#8217; defense in tackles entering Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 11 Red Raiders are looking to stay undefeated with a win over Sam Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech linebacker Austin Romaine made the play of his life against Sam Houston on Saturday \u2014 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,144221,89414,88145],"class_list":["post-448687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-tp-college-football","tag-tp-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-tp-colleges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448687","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=448687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}