2012 RED RAIDER FOOTBALL Jones AT&T Stadium (58,955 Attendance) GAME RECAPS September 15, 2012 GAME THREE • Texas Tech 49, New Mexico 14 SCORE BY QUARTERS New Mexico Texas Tech
1 0 14
2 14 28
3 0 7
4 0 0
GAME FOUR • Texas Tech 24, Iowa State 13
FINAL 14 49
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Seth Doege threw for six touchdowns and 340 yards to lead Texas Tech past New Mexico 49-14 on Saturday night. Doege threw touchdown passes of 20, 39, 7, 12, 11 and 14 yards and completed 27 of 35 passes before being replaced by backup Michael Brewer early in the third quarter. Eric Ward caught three of Doege’s touchdown passes and Jace Amaro got two of them as the senior quarterback made it look easy for Texas Tech (3-0). The Red Raiders finished with 702 total yards, 325 on the ground. New Mexico (1-2) struggled on offense and alternated starter B.R. Holbrook and backup Cole Gautsche at quarterback throughout the game. The Lobos finished with just 127 yards of offense. The lone bright spot for New Mexico, shut out in the second half, came when Chase Clayton returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown to pull the Lobos within 28-14. Doege, who is in his second year as starter, became the ninth Red Raiders quarterback to pass for 5,000 yards when he found Bradley Marquez for an 18-yard completion in the first quarter. He got his 500th completion, the seventh Texas Tech quarterback to do so, when Marquez caught a 4-yard pass from him in the second quarter. Eric Stephens lead Texas Tech’s rushers with 118 yards on 12 carries and Kenny Williams had 105 yards on 14 carries. Texas Tech’s defense showed why it was in the top 10 nationally coming into the game. The Red Raiders contained the pistol option the Lobos tried to use to keep Texas Tech’s potent offense off the field. Only once did New Mexico consume substantial time off the clock. The Lobos had a 17-play drive that took 7:41 bridging the first and second quarters and led to their first score when Demarcus Rogers ran for a 2-yard TD to make it 14-7. It was the Lobos’ first score in five quarters after they were shut out by Texas 45-0 last week, but it showed how they hoped to slow the Red Raiders’ offense. Doege was sharp all night. On the drive that led to his third touchdown pass to Ward that made it 28-7, he completed 7 of 8 passes during an 11-play drive. Clayton muted most of the 58,955 Red Raiders fans on the next play when he took the kickoff and went nearly untouched along the sideline for a touchdown. It was Clayton’s second kickoff return for a touchdown this season. He got the first one, also for 98 yards, in the season opener during a 66-21 win over Southern. New Mexico’s offense sputtered early, crossing into Texas Tech territory only once in the first quarter. Early in that drive Holbrook, who started the game, went out and Gautsche came in and together they took the Lobos down the field.
SCORE BY QUARTERS Texas Tech Iowa State
SCORING PLAY Ward, Eric 20 yd pass from Doege, Seth Stephens, Eric 21 yd run ROGERS, D. 2 yd run Ward, Eric 39 yd pass from Doege, Seth Ward, Eric 7 yd pass from Doege, Seth CLAYTON, Chase 98 yd kickoff return Amaro, Jace 9 yd pass from Doege, Seth Moore, Darrin 11 yd pass from Doege, Seth Amaro, Jace 14 yd pass from Doege, Seth
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1 2 3 4 FINAL 0 7 7 10 24 7 0 6 0 13
AMES, Iowa (AP) - Seth Doege tossed three touchdown passes and Texas Tech held off host Iowa State 24-13 on Saturday night in the Big 12 opener for both teams. Doege threw for 331 yards to lead the unbeaten Red Raiders (4-0, 1-0), who held Iowa State to just 189 yards of offense. Doege’s 19-yard TD pass to Eric Ward put Tech up 21-13 with 10:36 left, and Ryan Bustin added a 39-yard field goal with 2:20 to go. James White had 57 yards rushing for the Cyclones (3-1, 0-1). Iowa State’s Steele Jantz had one of the worst nights of his career, throwing for just 73 yards on 10 of 20 passing to go with three interceptions and a fumble. The pick that Tech turned into the go-ahead touchdown wasn’t his fault. But the fumble that sealed Iowa State’s fate was all on him. Ernst Brun caught the ball near midfield, but the ball popped out after he was drilled by D.J. Johnson. Cornelius Douglas brought the ball back to Iowa State’s 9-yard line, and after a holding penalty, Doege found Ward for the score. The Cyclones then got into Red Raiders territory with just under seven minutes left when the ball slipped out of Jantz’s hands on a scramble. Texas Tech recovered near midfield and ran down the clock before Bustin’s decisive field goal. Jantz also gained just 14 yards on 19 rushes, and his final interception came in the Tech end zone with 57 seconds left. Jantz threw for just three measly yards on seven passes in the first half. But he picked up 21 yards on a crucial 3rd-downand-20 and found Brun in the back corner of the end zone to put the Cyclones ahead 13-7. It all went downhill from there for the Cyclones. Tech answered right back on Doege’s 4-yard TD pass to Darrin Moore that made it 14-13 Red Raiders with 1:01 left in the third quarter. The Cyclones forced Texas Tech into a 41-yard field goal try by Bustin that was wide right early in the fourth quarter, but a relatively solid night defensively for Iowa State went unrewarded. The Cyclones held the Red Raiders to just 63 yards rushing and a season-low 24 points. Texas Tech rolled over its first three opponents -Northwestern State, Texas State and New Mexico - with such ease that the Red Raiders entered play ranked first in the nation in total defense and second in total offense. Tech, which lost to Iowa State 41-7 in 2011, realized this wouldn’t be another easy romp. The Red Raiders punted as many times in the first seven minutes, twice, as it had all season. The Cyclones also kept getting in Doege’s face, and on a key third down Doege threw it right to Klein, who took it back 87 yards for the touchdown. But Klein missed a tackle on Texas Tech’s Jakeem Grant on an 11-yard TD reception that tied the game at 7 with 1:32 left in the first half. Texas Tech’s defense would prove worthy of its ranking in the national standings, holding Iowa State to 3.3 yards per play and making it pay for Jantz’s mistakes.
TEAM STATISTICS UNM TTU First Downs........................................................................... 8 38 Net Yards Rushing................................................................. 84 325 Net Yards Passing.................................................................. 43 377 Completions-Attempts-Int.................................................... 6-12-0 33-45-0 Total Offense Yards................................................................ 127 702 Fumbles: Number-Lost.......................................................... 0-0 2-1 Penalties: Number-Yards....................................................... 4-37 8-90 Kickoffs-Yards........................................................................ 3-195 7-442 Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD............................................ 0-0-0 2-8-0 Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD............................................ 6-177-1 2-50-0 Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD.............................................. 0-0-0 0-0-0 Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD.......................................... 0-0-0 0-0-0 Possession Time.................................................................... 25:43 34:17 Third-Down Conversions....................................................... 2 of 11 8 of 13 Fourth-Down Conversions..................................................... 1 of 2 1 of 2 Red-Zone Scores-Chances..................................................... 1-1 5-7 Sacks By: Number-Yards........................................................ 1-9 2-14 SCORING SUMMARY TEAM QTR TIME TTU 1st 11:05 TTU 1st 06:22 NM 2nd 13:41 TTU 2nd 07:57 TTU 2nd 02:19 NM 2nd 02:06 TTU 2nd 00:34 TTU 2nd 00:05 TTU 3rd 12:35
Jack Trice Stadium (54,195 Attendance) September 29, 2012
TEAM STATISTICS TTU ISU First Downs........................................................................... 20 13 Net Yards Rushing................................................................. 63 116 Net Yards Passing.................................................................. 332 73 Completions-Attempts-Int.................................................... 31-47-2 10-20-3 Total Offense Yards................................................................ 395 189 Fumbles: Number-Lost.......................................................... 2-0 1-1 Penalties: Number-Yards....................................................... 11-80 3-32 Kickoffs-Yards........................................................................ 5-272 3-187 Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD............................................ 2-31-0 2-19-0 Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD............................................ 3-69-0 3-25-0 Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD.............................................. 3-40-0 2-87-1 Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD.......................................... 1-2-0 0-0-0 Possession Time.................................................................... 34:37 25:23 Third-Down Conversions....................................................... 7 of 16 5 of 14 Fourth-Down Conversions..................................................... 0 of 0 1 of 1 Red-Zone Scores-Chances..................................................... 3-4 1-1 Sacks By: Number-Yards........................................................ 4-24 3-35
PLAYS-YARDS 8-57 9-75 17-79 7-63 11-90
DRIVE TIME 2:40 2:27 7:41 2:20 4:03
7-79 5-23 6-71
1:32 0:29 2:25
SCORING SUMMARY TEAM QTR TIME ISU 1st 01:42 TTU 2nd 01:32 ISU 3rd 04:26 TTU 3rd 01:01 TTU 4th 10:36 TTU 4th 02:20
SCORING PLAY Klein, A.J. 87 yd interception return Grant, Jakeem 11 yd pass from Doege, Seth Brun, Ernst 5 yd pass from Jantz, Steele Moore, Darrin 4 yd pass from Doege, Seth Ward, Eric 19 yd pass from Doege, Seth Bustin, Ryan 39 yd field goal
PLAYS-YARDS
DRIVE TIME
9-46 15-74 8-71 1-9 10-29
4:30 6:36 3:19 0:33 4:30
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