At 4-1 on the season, the Texas Tech football program is off to its best five-game start of the Joey McGuire era thanks to a 44-41 win over Cincinnati. Following Saturday night’s thriller that came down to a last-second field goal miss by the Bearcats, the Red Raider head coach met with the media to discuss his team’s latest Big 12 win.
“I am so proud of this football team,” he said. “You know, hats off to Cincinnati. They’re really good football team. We felt that all week long and talked about it. We thought it was going to be a four-quarter game. But, man, I’m so proud of this team. You know, we, early in the game, we lost Chapman Lewis. He tweaked his hamstring, and we felt like we couldn’t get back. And then Jordan Sanford comes out and messes up his hand, so he’s got to go in, and at halftime, so [Joseph] Plunk comes out and finishes the half. So we go through three free safeties come out.
“The second half, we got Jordan, Plunk back, Pluck comes out, mess up his shoulder. I feel like he’s going to be okay, but, you know, got his shoulder pretty good. So Jordan had to go back out there. And, man, he almost came up with a big interception, but he just kept going back and forth…