The Texas Tech Red Raiders football program is a college football team that represents Texas Tech University, and is currently a member of the Big 12 Conference, which is a Division I Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The program began in 1925 and has an overall winning record, and a total of eleven conference titles.
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The team is currently coached by Mike Leach and home games are played at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. The team’s first postseason game was the 1937 Sun Bowl, where they were defeated by West Virginia with 6-7. Coach Cawthon led the team to the Cotton Bowl the following year where they lost to St. Mary's, 13–20. The next coach after Cawthon was Dell Morgan, who started in 1941, garnering a 55–49–3 record which included three bowl appearances that ended in losses, and DeWitt T. Weaver replaced him in 1951. He held a record of 49–51–5, and coached the Red Raiders to their initial bowl victories. The first victory was against Pacific in 1951 Sun Bowl, and the second was two years later in the Gator Bowl. The 1953 Gator Bowl, a 35–13 win over Auburn, is most memorable for the first official public appearance of The Masked Rider. The Red Raiders opened the 2007 season in Dallas on September 3, 2007, and defeated the Mustangs with 49–9.