{"id":90061,"date":"2025-12-16T15:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/90061\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:49:14","slug":"2025-26-college-football-playoff-preview-texas-tech-red-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/90061\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-26 College Football Playoff Preview: Texas Tech Red Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.pff.com\/?promoCode=holiday30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get PFF+ for 30% off<\/a>:\u00a0Use promo code\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.pff.com\/?promoCode=holiday30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HOLIDAY30<\/a>\u00a0to unlock the PFF Player Prop Tool, Premium Stats, fantasy dashboards, the PFF Mock Draft Simulator, industry-leading fantasy rankings and much more \u2014 everything you need to win your season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.pff.com\/?promoCode=holiday30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Editorial-Banner-1-1-1024x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-612516\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we gear up for the second 12-team College Football Playoff, we\u2019ll provide an in-depth breakdown of each contender, recapping their journey to this point and highlighting what makes them tick.<\/p>\n<p>From their biggest strengths and glaring weaknesses to the path they\u2019ll need to navigate to claim a national championship, we\u2019ll give you everything you need to know to get ready for the most exciting time of the college football season.<\/p>\n<p>No. 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/premium.pff.com\/ncaa\/teams\/2024\/REGPO\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premium.pff.com\/ncaa\/teams\/2024\/REGPO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Texas Tech Red Raiders<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Head Coach: Joey McGuire (4th season)<\/p>\n<p>Record: 12-1 (Won Big 12 Championship)<\/p>\n<p>Overall Grade: 95.4 (3rd)<\/p>\n<p>Offensive Grade: 85.0 (14th)<\/p>\n<p>Defensive Grade: 96.9 (1st)<\/p>\n<p>EPA per play (Offense): 0.131 (25th)<\/p>\n<p>EPA per play (Defense): -0.370 (1st)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get PFF+ for 30% off:\u00a0Use promo code\u00a0HOLIDAY30\u00a0to unlock the PFF Player Prop Tool, Premium Stats, fantasy dashboards, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-90061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90061","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=90061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}