LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – (News release from Texas Tech Athletics) <\/p>\n
Dave Campbell\u2019s Texas Football (DCTF) unveiled its 2025 All-Texas College Football Team following championship weekend, with the seven Power Four programs in the Lone Star State accounting for 40 of the 56 players selected. Texas Tech led all programs with eight honorees.<\/p>\n
Butkus\u00a0Award and\u00a0Bronko\u00a0Nagurski\u00a0Trophy winner Jacob Rodriguez was tabbed the\u00a0Dave Campbell\u2019s Texas Football Defensive Player of the Year, in addition to being selected as one of Texas Tech\u2019s four First-Team All-Texas Defense picks. Joining the standout linebacker on the first team were defensive end David Bailey, defensive tackle Lee Hunter, and\u00a0cornerback\u00a0Brice Pollock. That quartet played a key role in elevating the Red Raiders to top-five national rankings in turnovers gained (1st, 31), rushing defense (1st, 68.5 yards per game), scoring defense (3rd, 10.9), total defense (5th, 254.4), and sacks (T-5th, 3.0 per game).Defensive end\u00a0Romello\u00a0Height, an integral part of Tech\u2019s pressure-heavy front, was named to the Second-Team All-Texas Defense. Height recorded 54 pressures this season, according to Pro Football Focus, the seventh most in the FBS. Bailey led all of college football with 74 pressures.On the offense, running back Cameron Dickey and offensive lineman Howard Sampson were each named First-Team All-Texas Offense, while running back\u00a0J\u2019Koby Williams was tabbed to the second team.A total of 56 players were selected, with 28 on offense and 28 on defense.\u00a0Texas Tech\u2019s eight selections led all teams, followed by seven for Texas A&M, and six for the Texas Longhorns. The six Group of Five programs had a combined 16 players on the list, led by North Texas with six.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eddie Robinson and George Munger Coach of the Year finalist Joey McGuire was named the\u00a0DCTF\u00a0Co-Coach of the Year alongside Texas A&M\u2019s Mike Elko. Both head coaches have their teams in this year\u2019s College Football Playoff, with the Red Raiders earning the No. 4 seed and the Aggies the No. 7 seed.<\/p>\n
DCTF\u00a02025 ALL-TEXAS COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM (Texas Tech selections)<\/p>\n
First-Team All-Texas Offense<\/p>\n
RB: Cameron Dickey, So.\u00a0OL: Howard Sampson, Jr.<\/p>\n
First-Team All-Texas DefenseDE: David Bailey, Sr.\u00a0DT: Lee Hunter, Sr.\u00a0LB: Jacob Rodriguez, Sr.\u00a0CB: Brice Pollock, Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Second-Team All-Texas Offense<\/p>\n
UTL: J\u2019Koby Williams, So.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Second-Team All-Texas Defense<\/p>\n
DE: Romello Height, Sr.\u00a0Defensive Player of the Year:\u00a0LB, Jacob RodriguezCo-Coach of the Year:\u00a0Mike Elko (Texas A&M), Joey McGuire (Texas Tech)To view the complete\u00a02025 All-Texas College Football Teams, visit\u00a0TexasFootball.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – (News release from Texas Tech Athletics) Dave Campbell\u2019s Texas Football (DCTF) unveiled its 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[261,319,251,168,170,169,154,40070,1769,22691,874],"class_list":["post-83057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-college-football","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-sports","tag-texa-football","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-athletics","tag-texas-tech-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83057","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=83057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}