Texas Tech vs ACU | NCAAF Week 1 | 2024 Season [Full Game]

new season new entrance for Texas Tech football and you're watching the Big 12 on ESPN there is an electricity here on the South Plains the 100th season of Texas Tech football begins tonight inside a renovated Jones AT&T Stadium and Led Out by the mass Rider outside of the new South End Zone Texas Tech opens up the year with abene Christian from the FCS and here is our entrance so we welcome you inside along with the former Missouri defensive coordinator Dave stle I'm Ted Emer this is when it gets fun right yeah there were games last weekend but this is the first full weekend of college football 11 games today in the new look big 12 stack this is like Christmas right this is unbelievable I am so excited you you have go Goosebumps all over your body sold out crowd first week of college football it's exciting Texas Tech is fired up they believe they should be in the hunt for the Big 12 title this year and you around here the conversation begins at quarterback and baron Morton is vital but Tech also happens to have one of the Premier running backs in the country in Taj Brooks Taj Brooks is unbelievable they call it Taj time here and you see him there getting ready for to play this game Kenny Perry the running back coach he says unbelievable things about this guy about his elusiveness his power his burst but the thing that's really good that Kenny talks about is his character and how much he loves Texas Tech football abalene Christian and Texas Tech have not met in 75 years even though ACU is about a 2hour drive from here all that said there is plenty of familiarity for ACU with tech and it starts with their head coach Keith Patterson it does Keith Patterson was the former defensive coordinator here at Tech and he's got about seven or eight players that played here at Tech that's now down there with him but what they have to do is manage distractions stay focused play one game at a time and take it where take where take the game where takes the two seven starters for ACU transferred from Texas Tech including the quarterback Maverick mver and we will see mver on the field First Texas Tech winning the coin toss deferring the option to the second half and reys Burkhart is ready to kick it away to open this [Applause] up sellout crowd on hand here in lck and the 100th season of Texas Tech football is underway ACU starts at the 25 so Maverick mver the three-year starter returns to where he began his career and St he finally gets to take a snap here at the Jones he did not play in his three years here at Texas Tech it's been a long journey for him but Maverick he's done a really nice job he's been a three-year starter down there I'm excited to see what he brings to this table here cuz he always dreamed about playing in the stadium well here's his chance the early part of his college career marred by injury but now a leader for ACU in his third year as the starter Isaiah Johnson opens up at running back and mver to throw on first down it's a deep shot and bla Taylor could not come down with it his big play Target the 50-year senior was battling AJ mccardy the Baylor transfer we talked to coach before the game he said they're going to challenge their defensive backs but on the flip side of the Checker match coach Tim darer said we're going to press these receivers and see what they got going for them now St ACU told us hey we love Blaine Taylor in contested catch situations but mccardy made the play there now to the ground and Johnson hit at the line and taken down by Jacob Rodriguez the quarterback of the defense remember he broke his leg week one last year came back late in the season Tech is glad to have him on the field to start this year he's he's their heartbeat he's their inspiration inside their CL middle linebacker and you can see down there nice little Zone play they ran it weak got toes to the heels now abalene christens in a disadvantage at third and 10 Sal Ben Roberts in there as well the Freshman All-American from a year ago lines up right next to Rodriguez third and 10 for the wild cats mver in complete trying to hit neemi Martinez another former Red Raider Ben Roberts supplied the pressure and it's a three and out from the Texas Tech defense that's not a good me uh good recipe right now Ted for abalene Christian going three and out I think that's part of the manag distractions a little bit of jitters going on right there Josh Kelly the Washington State transfer ready to return this punt from Grant nickel yes another former Texas Tech player nichel had a great year last year for ACU averaging 43 yards a punt low snap nickel handles it and Kelly who did not return punts last year at Washington State makes the fair catch just inside the 30 it's a 46 yd punt so here comes Baron Morton in the Texas Tech offense Morton stepped in for the injured title shuck each of the last two years and now that shuck is at louiso Morton is the unquestioned starter he's a good football player he had battle injuries last year he's healthy he's excited and we're going to see where this young man takes him but watch they're going to go to Tod books like we talked about in the open watch them go to Todd and keep feeding Tod Morton from Eastland Texas just outside of abene there in the big country and of course Brooks gets the call on first down the fourth leading rusher in the nation a year ago pushes past the 35 for a gain of seven nice little Zone play you see they're going quick on the ball this air raid they're going fast and right back to Brooks and stopped just short of the first down marker by Isaiah Kelly not a former Texas Tech Red Raider but a lovic native from Coronado High School just down the road okay they're slowing it down a little bit here on third down but they're going to keep feeding the thing don't be surprised on their third down situations that they're going to keep running the football because coach Maguire's a big analytics guy going for things on fourth down D third straight carry for Brooks don't have to worry about a fourth down conversion this time stopped at the 44 it's a pickup of six they ran that split Zone play with a tight end coming back blocking the back Edge and feeding him weak to the sidel yeah Brooks number four in the country in rushing Oly Gordon of course had that tremendous year won the dok Walker Award he's back for Oklahoma State Zack Kidley the offensive coordinator said man I wish I had realized that Brooks was the focus of the offense took me until week five last year to realize it empty set on first down and the first catch for Josh Kelly as a Red Raider and it's another first down into ACU territory gain of 13 Josh Kelly you mentioned before he's the transfer from Washington State they got the first down now they're going fast again Morton off the pump and right back to Kelly but a drop pass this time Elijah Moffett the four-year starter was in coverage Moffett was coming across the middle over there when he was running his little slant route got a little Happy Feet there but the thing that's beautiful there with Morton is uh he's had a quick release very fast release let's keep an eye on that as we get going and St you can already see how Kelly truly is going to be the Catalyst of this passing game that's what the coaches told us yesterday he was the starter in the slot from day one of Camp Brooks to the outside and nudged out inside the 40 by Harold West it's a gain of five to set up third down in medium there there's a great example of Brooks shows you everything right here coming up in the middle he makes a great bounce to the outside he accelerates and then look at his toughness coming out of the bounds over there knocking down yeah what did Brooks tell us yesterday his mentality whenever he has the ball in his hands I am not going down on First Contact it just proved it there so third down for Texas Tech and Morton completes it to Kelly for the first down at the 30 yd line first Kelly's going to be one of these guys who's going to fit the mo of a HB back slot for for Texas Tech boy they had some good ones over the years too flag down Morton incomplete threw it into traffic and another flag is down so one right as the ball was snapped and a flag down in the secondary as well John Carlos Miller the intended target well they got the guy jumping off sides on the first one there it was a free play on the off sides and the backside I think it was a hold with Kelly coming up over the middle Tim Rich our referee from the defense offside Defense number 90 that penalty is declined pass interference Defense number seven 15yd penalty atic first down now so the pass interference goes against Elijah [Applause] Mett you see the jump off sides there smart by the center snapping the football quarterback coming back across throwing the ball and he got there a little bit too sick Moffett who's a really good football player got there little too quick so how about this look now Morton still at quarterback but qb2 cam Brown motions out the transfer from West Georgia Morton keeping the play alive and incomplete trying to find Caleb Douglas in the back of the end zone they went with that two quarterback system there put the put the excuse me Brown in motion and they run to sneak him up the sidelines a little whe route well defended by avalene Christian now Brown is going to have a roll he is technically a walk-on transferred from a division 2 school but they love him in the running game just another wrinkle for this Texas Tech offense Brooks Rams into the middle of the line for a yard and a half they keep feeding Brooks a whole lot but the one key that we got to keep a look at on this as this game goes on Ted is that offensive line it's all new guys except for one now three transfers bolstering Texas Tech up front 10th play of the drive here in motion up [Applause] front 79 false start offense number 79 5yd penalty third down that's one of those transfers Sterling Porsche from Middle Tennessee started 25 games the last two years yeah Porche got a little excited there he wanted to get going with that snap before it happened got to focus down here so third and eight becomes third and 13 and they do run it with Brooks perhaps to set up a fourth down conversion they won't need it Brooks is in for the touchdown it is still Taj time here in [Applause] we talk the coach Le beforehand on third Downs great push from the offensive line there the thing that's impressive here is all three receivers to the trip side excellent job of blocking on the perimeter and Brooks did the rest going get into the end [Applause] zone Texas Tech Will alternate kickers on extra points and field goals the competition between Ree burhart and Gino Garcia continues Garcia gets the first crack here on this Pat and he drills it so a seven nothing lead for Texas Tech to open 2024 Taj Brooks came back and Taj is back in the end zone for Texas Tech Taj Brooks told us yesterday that he thought for sure he was gone to the NFL after his Stellar Junior season but he got a fifth round grade from NFL draft evaluators he decided why not come back for a fifth year St you see his career numbers the alltime rushing record here at Texas Tech is in his sights it's in his sights I'm sure that part of the reason he came back fifth round grade he want to come back and prove hey I'm I'm more worthy than that and as right now coming off the play here they went 71 yards 40 of them was his he's well on his way to show those Scouts that he can go play at the next level he told us I know I could be better in all facets especially finishing longer runs he's worked on his speed already know about his power burkart kicks away and a chance to return here for rovon Banks Jr flag is down from ahead of the play as Banks doesn't even reach the 20 during the return holding receiving team number 13 half the distance to the goal line first [Applause] down now Blaine Taylor Keith Patterson's top receiver out there on the kick return unit is the culprit so ACU went three and out on the first possession of the game now in a hole and former Red Raider Maverick mver back on the field this is not the start that Coach Patterson wanted you know defensively they gotten three penalties already now they got one on the kick off and putar them in a disadvantage here they've got to get their composure Under Wraps here Bo starting from the nine after the penalty and Sam Hicks with his first Carry as an Acu Wildcat up up close to the 15 transfer from Central Michigan Sam Hicks Sam Hicks had a nice little burst good Movement by the offensive line they're really solid they're guard they're two guards in Center have lots and lots of experience threeyear starters you can see that for Hicks bursted up through that b Gap now they coaches believe that hicks can score from just about anywhere it's got a lot of juice swing pass caught and Hut Graham another Texas Tech transfer tumbles ahead to the 17 yd line beg your part Trey Cleveland by the way another former Texas Tech receiver made the catch instead another one they they went unbalanced there that means they put all the formation to the left side they ran a counter weak on the fake and threw a bubble over to Trey on the backside could have got some hay if he could have got some blocking on the perimeter [Applause] there mver to throw on Third and short and off his back foot he finds his man Martinez for the first down gain of nine Ben Roberts on the tackle Ted right there was your Classic Air rate concept on Third and short see the double drag you see the tail back both of them cross it's called a mesh route picks the receiver automatically and he's opening the flat there it's got to be so tough as a defensive coach like yourself how to game plan for that over and over again when you face an Air Raid Offense it's difficult but there's ways to get around it kyver skips it into Cleveland well-designed play by coach puy there on the naked getting him on the perimeter he had the receiver open there on the comeback but he just was a little too fast on it I think MacGyver's got to settle down here a little bit he's at home Coming Back Into Love where he's from he's got to do it see Coach Patterson on his Sidelines he's going let's go keep those first downs going man he was the defensive coordinator for three years under Matt Wells was asked in the offseason is this a Revenge game he said revenge for what I had a great experience here in lck oh Hicks is blown up ball is out and has Texas Tech recovered de bran Carroll Has Come Away with it and the ball belongs to the Red Raiders the transfer from Rice DB Carroll makes an immediate impact coming out with a quick draw play they run double a gap pressure in the middle there's a heck of a strip there by Ben Roberts and then our man junks on the ball railan Carroll gets the takeaway and they're already in the Red Zone DB Carroll native of Duncanville Texas just south of Dallas yes hand him the belt he's the champ now he's the champ now to the next takeaway good for him that's excitement man so an immediate Red Zone opportunity for the Red [Music] Raiders Morton Zips it that's caught by Coy aen the top returning receiver for Texas Tech and he has it inside the five first and goal Coy aen and quarterback Bray uh Morton great chemistry together from last year is carrying on to this year also right back to aen this time for the touchdown oh and the dance to the Mind meld between Morton and aen [Applause] continues and they got their little dance step going over there in the end zone excellent job RPO here counter fake three step boom throws it in the back corner aen goes up and gets it with both hands and he gets his foot in the ground that's awesome G Tech rotating kickers on Pats and extra points so reys Burkhart with this funky formation here look out as everyone is Shifting around they snap it to the upman Jaylen Conor takes it in for two Conor ran the Wildcat at Arizona State the last two years and conjur punches it in for the two-point conversion here here on the touchdown see a little wiggle move little fade hand over catches on top of the end zone and he does a nice job of getting his foot in the end zone and now they're excited well it might be an FBS versus FCS game do not call it preseason Texas Tech is going to be aggressive and at times they will still reach into the bag of tricks how about the two-point conversion deck Kenny Perry went right up his sleeve a little muddle huddle here moved the kicker and punter over snapped it over to the holder and just ran a Zone outside Zone play where they were outnumbered by mans and get the two-point play very quickly good design by Kenny Perry the Special Teams coordinater now Conor's the tight end nice pick up in the portal from Arizona State has experience as a wildcat quarterback and he showed it there as Burkhart booms it out of the back of the end zone now Maverick mver again spent his first three years of his college career here at Texas Tech he was originally recruited by Cliff kingsberry before kingsberry is fired he joined the program under Matt Wells transferred to ACU when Keith Patterson went to join join the wild cats as well yes he was going to be fired up to come in here and listen he's two of five for 12 yards he's got to still manage that emotion right he has to manage that emotion he needs to get a little help with the offensive line the offensive Line's got to do a nice better job of protecting in the pocket number one but number two they need to establish a r will be in forced it's first down sorry I was talking when he was but they need to settle down and they need to establish a run game and get the ground game going a little bit and use some clock and obviously protect the ball and a legal substitution there for ACU so first and 15 to start the drive here's rovon Banks Jr disappears into the crowd and he gains three yards Junior from Tulsa that's what they have to do here now they need to establish run and go back to the old the old adage of the air raay where you're going running the football and running the rpos which is a run pass option off of it and that was a nice job by Banks Banks is a very explosive quick player Martinez in motion Blitz off the edge and a flag down as they were trying to set up the swing false start offense number 70 5y penalty second down and that's on the center Tay SP spent one year at Texas Tech himself again one of those six offensive starters for ACU who transferred from Tech they got to settle down here Ted I know it's it's halfway through the first quarter here but they still have their Jitters they're losing their composure and what's hurting them right now are the penalties a toss to Banks trying to find some room along the sideline and pushed out near the 25 castles and Kenny with some nice blocks so third down for abene Christian coach buy I think that's a good call Coach boy try to get back on track a little bit with that second down call third and eight it's more of a manageable type of situation here what you got to expect now coach darer is to press those receivers and I wouldn't be surprised if you brought a little heat so they Mark Banks out at the 22 third and eight caving Christian Cleveland comes in motion mver whistles it and it is caught Hut Graham who was a safety in the Texas Tech program converted to receiver moving the chains with a gain of 19 here they go quick now nice job with the it's called a climb over route nice accuracy mver keeps for the first time and he spills to the 43 CJ Baskerville there to meet him short game you know ACU and especially McKai are so excited to be in this air raid coordinated by Rick Buie you see the new offensive coordinator who came from division 2 valdasta State Buie told us this week he never got the chance to talk to the late great Mike Leech Buie considers Dana hogerson his to of course hogerson a former assistant here at Tech Banks plows ahead for two more set up thir six yeah to piggy back that comment you know he is a Dana disciple and that's where he actually met Coach Patterson when they were both at West Virginia he was a G West Virginia he came from Dickinson College I have fond memories of my man at Dickinson College one of my first coaching jobs back there where they were the red and he he's a product of that environment and he's going to be a heck of a football coach as he keep culating through the ranks here as buoy told us this week hey everyone runs the air raid right now it's the same stake everyone puts on different seasoning how he season this stake on Third and six with a first down excellent job there coach buy gets him in a bunch of alignment puts all three receivers together in a pack there when they come out and they disperse all right they come off in the SP uh dispersed with each other and I call it a little flat flag snag you got a guy going up on top a guy coming over the middle and a guy sits down right there at the sticks where they make an easy completion and move the sticks for him now Javon Gibson came down with the catch and Rick buy and the offense are cooking something up right now in Texas Tech territory flip it to Martinez on the Ender round and Martinez is inside the 35 nice block by Brian Henry the tied end gain of 11 more play you get into the plus territory you get a first down they go quick on the on the fast tempo and run a nice little reverse there to Martinez who oh by the way played at Texas Tech he again if you're playing an ouncer bingo at home we're going to say it a lot former Red Raider now with abene Christian Banks hitting the back field and trying to spin forward AJ mccardy was there along with a lot of his friends no game good job they you know they got into a very Bunch set there and Coach Tim daruda the defensive coordinator he brought the nickel off the edge there AJ did a nice job of bending to the ball bendy means right down behind the line of scrimmage there makes a nice tackle for barely a yard now mccardy didn't play in the regular season last year he only played special teams in the bowl game for Tech he didn't enter the portal from Baylor in time so he had to sit out ninth play of the drive mver hit as he throws it wide open man is Jed castles and castles is in for the touchdown former Red Raider to former Red Raider for the score I'll tell you what Ted my man you're going to confuse everybody when you're talking about Red Raiders they went to a trips alignment with a nub on the backside they ran up out and up with a tight end against timer rudder's quarter quarter half over there the corner takes a peak Back In The End Zone he didn't funnel him inside to the receiver and you can see he goes up on the sidelines makes a nice catch we saw that young man before the game he's a big human being with big paws man list him at 67235 he looks the part division two transfer ritzy vase the new place kicker coming over from Midwestern State and witch all falls he adds the extra point it's 15 to7 he's coming up over top he's wide open he's coming down the sideline there nice little move there takes him drags him into the end zone touchdown and they're back in the ball game this has to feel good for Jed Castle spent his first year of college football here at Texas Tech and a few years later he returns to lck and he puts ACU on the board for the first time this season capping off a nine playay 80 yd Drive ACU needed some jumper cables for their offense after for those first two drives in St they found them they did they really did they settled down I think what really happened is mcgyver did a nice job of settling himself down and was a calming Force for the rest of the football team and this is just what the doctor needed to get a good remedy here of scoring that touchdown play sophomore Kyler mesy kicks it away Dre McCrae one of the most lethal returned men in the country will not get a chance here it's a Touchback on the kickoff more exciting Big 12 action for you next Saturday right here on ESPN plus all in Prime Time West Virginia and you Albany one of the great teams out of the FCS UCF Sam Houston 6:30 we will be in Fort Worth de TCU and Long Island 10 Eastern Arizona and Northern Arizona I'm looking forward to go see those horn frogs a big comeback win on the farm at Stanford Last Night Big Win For Him big win for him Josh Hoover and Company one and and O and ready for their home opener next week Texas Tech kicking off the season against ACU and baron Morton on the keeper to open up this drive gain of three on the play lot of moving Parts on that play with the motion they go with the motion and they run back weak Baron keeps it himself I think every Texas Tech fan probably holds their breath anytime Morton keeps remember the shoulder injury from last year he played through a Grade Three sprain that he suffered in September just couldn't throw the Deep ball as a result the rest of the year here's the quick hitter to Kelly and a first down across the 35 Kell and so Morton told us yesterday St hey I know that I have to be more Mindful and just take the easy throw when it's there and and there it was a good play action fake got the pull out quick to Kelly and got the first down Taj Brooks open up the scoring bouncing to the outside and Brooks lowering the shoulder across the 45 jir Dudley taking the brunt of that hit gain of nine thing I was really impressed with that run was how patient he was to set up that crackback block by the receiver now a screen for Caleb Douglas the Florida transfer for the coaches are really excited about Douglas as well he moves the chains 64 big Target no Baron Morton has to tie shoes big Target big hands but the thing that the coaches all talked about is he could blow the top off you down the field with his speed something that they didn't really have last year that true deep threat Cameron Valdez checks in at running back giving Brooks a breather and Valdez has the ball down to the 35 gain of six we talk about the air rate offense and what that you know everybody thinks throw the ball throw the ball has a nice downhill play going right at them right up the middle and they come right back at it Morton to aen and Aken slips The Tackle touchdown times two Morton and Aken for the [Applause] score Ted that's one of the worst feelings in the world when you're on defense when you hear the team's ban play let's see if ree Burkhart actually gets a chance to kick the extra point this time Conor ran it in for two last time so they run Burkhart back out there and he converts 22-7 after the 35 yd bullet from Morton to aen and now he's got the championship he does they go with an RPO here they a slam corner and the safety as you see there chasing him down didn't get over top of it he went from a slant to a go route simple little release aing grabs it gets a second touchdown for the day they needed Jamar Dudley to get over top on that one but like you said they give the belt for touchdowns and takeaways huh that's awesome one of cool Traditions you see across college football those props whether they be for turnovers touchdowns and whatnot so KY Aken with his second touchdown catch you know St I had a chance to call his state championship game his final game in high school at Stevenville Texas at the time he suits up for that last game in high school football his offers for tlon State UIW and Lamar all from the FCS he goes out as a huge game Joey Maguire offers him shortly after and here he is now a playmaker at Texas Tech that's the crazy thing about recruiting p is you can measure size Speed height weight but you can't measure the heart and that kid's a got a big heart loves football loves football the coaches said and Morton and AK always on the same page there's a good picture right there as you see that they changed in college football now with Morton sitting next to coach kitley they got the iPads now with the technology on the sidelines so they can watch the plays discuss it before they go back out on the field again so that's a new added Dimension with college football nowadays with the iPad on the sidelines and you think of the new technology ACU is not using the inh helmet communication for this game Morton fires it's caught first down for Trey Cleveland ACU had the opportunity to do so playing an FBS opponent they decided not to invest in that they can do that for a full season in the FCS starting next year they thought it'd be too expensive this year just for one game yeah I I've been down that road too before with the financial budgets that it displays so ACU is back in the stone ages they are uh using signals swing it to JJ Henry for top recruit transfer from Old Miss and Henry goes down just across the 45 gain of seven JJ Henry's a very quick player you see how they're still signaling there on the sidelines but going back to the helmet communication you know Texas Tech was the guinea pig during the bull season and got to use it but they but three players used to have the headsets in there in their ear here now you only have one so you still have to use your signals late stages of the first quarter John son trying to turn it to the perimeter fumble and Johnson got back on top of it but a big loss on the play Mike Dingle made the hit beautiful hit WS now nice job of getting back up on that football cuz that would have been a catastrophe if they would have got a takeaway to go back down and score again here before the quarters over AC already lost one fumble in this first quarter which has come to an end here in lck year three for Joey Maguire in Texas Tech and they're up 22 to7 over abene Christian Taj Brooks got it started you better set your clock to Taj time again here in 2024 it's a 22 to7 lead for the Red Raiders here in the season opener season opener here in lck in the first meeting between Texas Tech and aene Christian in 75 years a 22-7 lead for Texas Tech over Keith Patterson former Red Raider assistant in ACU Ted em Dave stle our entire crew third and five for the wild cats to start the second quarter Maverick mver moving the chains with the completion he found JJ Henry for the first down really by mcgyver he started off really bumpy he was 0 and2 starting off here and now he just went N9 for 10 completions here nice little settle route at the sticks good execution now mver looks right at home back here at Texas Tech floating it for Henry again and Henry comes down with it another first down just shy of the 30 it's a gain of 15 well executed they went with the RPL with a fake bubble see the little fake stalk Buck by Henry and he releases off in an outside fade beautiful execution nice accuracy by MacGyver Maverick mver just is the perfect Texas quarterback name anyway and throws it away this time don't you think Maverick mver you know you're actually right I thought when we start I started preparing for that I said okay I'm going to West Texas I expected him to come riding in here on a horse with his cowboy hat and his six shooters classic name it's from the kcho Valley San Angelo Texas and was so fired up to come back here to Texas Tech again like you mentioned St started 0 for two you see the total numbers now he's found a Groove mver completes another one this time to Trey Cleveland and ACU is in the red zone with a first down that goes for 18 he really does that was good job of him keeping his eyes down the field when he felt the pressure you know when you evaluate quarterbacks and they start scrambling do they scramble to run or do they scramble to throw and I think mcgyver he he he likes to scramble to throw he kept his eyes down the field he missed a tight end right over the ball there for the first down but kept his eyes downfield made a nice completion they take the tight end off the field here four receivers in the pattern on first down Graham the motion man mver incomplete Cleveland could not haul it in against jayen peoples who's playing a bigger role to start the year than you would have thought Texas Tech top Corner bradin Lux out with a thigh injury that he suffered late in the week it was and that's that's tough on Lux because coacher rer thought he's going to be really special this year but he'll get him back for the rest of the Big 12 Play Trey Cleveland there was a nice job running up the seam route he got to come down with that cuz I thought that was really good accuracy on Maverick's part castles who has the touchdown for ACU in motion Johnson barreling ahead Isaiah Johnson's inside the 10 and it's first and goal for ACU he split Rodriguez and mcalpine's tackles what what they're doing here is they running the old counter OT both guard and Tackle pull you got the kick out the lead up on the linebacker you just mentioned and he takes it right up down the middle with Isaiah Johnson and Johnson a loic native himself from Cooper High School about 10 miles to the South a transfer from North Texas first and goal from the seven Johnson again and taken down down just short of the goal line by Rodriguez nice job by Rodriguez making a so solo tackle there what they did was they Blitz the double a gap there and they blocked it well good job by the interior the offensive line but Rodriguez does a nice job of coming over top and making that tackle and saving a [Music] touchdown abene Christian on the welcome mat again second and goal 11th Place of the drive third straight carry for Johnson he is in the end zone for the touchdown there is a flag down though in the end zone legal substitution defense more than 11 players on the field with the St the penalty is declined resulted the play as a touchdown so Isaiah Johnson caps off the drive and ACU is back in the end zone nice design here by coach buy what he did on that last play was he wanted an unbalanced set so it's called a Nubs side you just had a guard and a tackle on the backside and Texas Tech did not do a good job of overshifting on that Ted and there was a free Gap open lety vase Line Drive kick is through our score so ACU back to within a score nice job coming up inside nice cut back by Johnson you see the open Gap because of the unbalance set colle football back the NFL back next weekend from3 Christian mcaffrey of the 49ers to another 23 Isaiah Johnson enjoying his homecoming so far back here in lck the abene Christian running back with the 2-y touchdown and St ACU showing some fight here they absolutely are they settled down they're they're doing a really nice job of uh managing what they can manage mcgyver settled down but plays like this right now that we're witnessing on this long Touchback by Dre McCrae the top Return Man in the Big 12 a year ago takes it all the way past the acu30 you need special teams like that that just kind of blows the top off you that moralizes the defense you go down and score you're making a game out of it and then Coach Perry's uh special teams here starts taking it up the sideline breaks it back inside beautiful ball leverage with the key straight arm now watch this little Wiggles Move Little move outside again he keeps his feet moving I had that young man when he played against uh Austin pay and they played Alabama two years ago and he did that to Alabama too that kid's a really good football player a 74 yd return by McCrae and baron Morton and the offense set up at the 26 of ACU how about the pass to Taj Brooks lined up as a wide out here doesn't go very far gain of a yard as Jordan mukes and will schaer bring him down that's the thing I really like about Taj though also is good running back we all know that we've been beating that drum very excellent hands out of the back field nice job at catching it locking it away and trying to get a couple yards again an empty set for Morton and another screen this time to Caleb Douglas and Douglas marked out near the 20 what they did there is they got a bunch formation and it was FSL FSL stands for they put the formation into the sideline FSL and what they did was they threw a quick bubble out there and let those two big guys block the perimeter and as you see they got about five yards out of that now they got a nice third and five manageable I would not be shocked if they run the football here especially out of this unbalanced set T and Brooks is right back alongside Morton that's what they do and Brooks couldn't bounce it David o'i the Junior from Houston showing a lot of Promise up front during camp and he makes a play there nice job using his quickness coming up inside there hands I like this guy he's a leader he's got quickness he's got strength and has a very nice play using his quickness in his hands right therecia Texas Tech Ops for the field goal try on fourth down Gino Garcia 16 of 22 a yearo he missed three field goals in the season opening lost Wyoming before straightening things out and Garcia Nails this one nice points there Ted but the thing is they got to look at that's a win for abalene Christian because they held him to a field goal oh the last time Texas Tech was on the field shareport Louisiana the Independence Bowl and a big win over Cal Baron Morton the dime decoy aen at over a 100 yards a 34-4 win so in the first two years under Joey Maguire St two winning seasons two Bowl victories The Next Step according to Maguire play meaningful games in November with Texas Tech in the conference title hunt we don't want to be playing games just to be Bowl eligible absolutely this is his third year and I think uh the athletic director Mr hul cut this is a home run higher here he's a successful High School coach from Cedar Hill when state championships comes in here to Texas Tech goes backto back bowl games now the thing he said is we got to start fast in this season cuz two years in a row they were three and three they got to come out of the gates fast in fact one and three last season with three ones score losses but the schedule sets up so well for them as ACU will start at the 25 Texas Tech's going to avoid the top two teams in the Big 12 preseason poll Utah K State they won't play Kansas either a lot of people believe that Jaylen Daniels Deon Neil and Company could certainly contend this year and four the first five games for Texas Tech are right here at the Jones which could give them a great start going to where they want to go the other thing that was astounding to me was you know Texas Tech we talk about their bowl games they lead the Big 12 in most bowl games especially now that Texas and Oklahoma have left well first they'd love to straighten out their defense a little bit giving up back-to-back touchdowns after coming up with stops including a turn turn over on the first two possessions there's a pass to Blaine Taylor knocked out of Bounds at the 29 gain of four Maran horn was in coverage T I got to tell you man that that the Blain Taylor guy I had him two years ago at missou and he was a little bit young back in at the time but he is just blossoming and blossoming and I can see that young man having an opportunity in the NFL someday it's 65 215 he's got the frame mver throwing deep to Cleveland and double coverage and it's incomplete yeah that was a that was a 50/50 ball going up in the air like that Cleveland has to come down now they got a penalty there looks like a hold against ACU holding offense number 70 10y penalty still second down yeah second penalty on the center y yeah that that that big old dude the center there he's getting little an grabs in there pushing the guy oh he he is a nice little wrap there you know here's a little trivia for I used to play center and I used to hold before holding was fashionable so sometimes I can't blame that big guy in there they never called it on you though oh they called it on me constantly so back up the wild cats to inside their own 20 Blitz up the middle and here on the draw is roon Banks so nice play call with Texas Tech sending pressure so run of 12 yards coach buy made an excellent call on that they go with that little draw play on second long he's a back get back on track guy which I can explain later but the thing that was nice here they blow came up the a gap and we were just giving our our guy uh uh yant hard time about blocking but he made a nice block on that that let it come up the middle for big game now they got to capitalize third and five maer Zips it to Taylor for the first first down nice catch in traffic Rodriguez the linebacker was lurking and mver to Taylor picking up six Taylor Made a nice job of trying to push the uh reception pattern up field broke it up inside used his body frame to box him out to get that first down nice little controlled throw over there to the short side of the field into the boundary back to the ground game and Banks and he Twirls past Brendan Jordan for a gain of two I think rovon on that last play Banks or tail back he needed to come back and bend that back following the tight end there there was a backside B Gap there if he would have hit that that could have hit for a big game back there he's going to want to have that one back yeah Keith Patterson's team could have had a worse start offensively three and out then they lose a fumble but since then they've cranked it up and overcame a penalty already on this drive this won't help negative play Banks taken down by Harvey Dyson the third Texas Tech coaches say he has been the most consistent Edge player during Camp he's ready for a breakthrough season really nice job here they run the counter OT Center doesn't get the block back nice Bend there by Dyson coming off the edge Tim darer brought both two guys off the backside one for the bend and one for the quarterback good good good design scheme-wise by coach Tim darer the defensive coordinator now third and 11 mver lobs it separation but incomplete too much on it from mver as he tried to connect with Taylor little excited there Ted on that throw there he overthrew the young man had him wide open the I think there was a little miscommunication here the DB squat went to jam came up onside the field on him and he's going to want to wish that he had that one back yeah St you're right Taylor beat Devin Cromwell and mver just couldn't locate him the thing I'm really happy about abene Christian right here is is they came in with a bunch of jitters they're two hours down the road they're playing up in a level a lot of these guys are coming back home they've settled down and I think they're a little bit more focused right now playing EO punts it to Kelly oh he called for the there he seemed to motion oh can I run with it no you called for the fair catch that's where it is 37 yd punt Tech has the ball back right after this well it took two years of construction and $242 million the new South End Zone building and the Womble football Center here at Texas Tech it is gleaming it will be the largest contiguous football building in the nation when the football Center opens in about a month talked with project manager Randy Cody yesterday he said that he and his team were up to their ears in alligators they were cleaning up to the last minute but they got it done as Texas Tech takes over at the 30 yd line and here is that new South End Zone stick absolutely beautiful sataj Mahal it's absolutely beautiful but I don't know about that project man I'm in Florida he don't know anything about alligators out here in West Texas back to Brooks on second and six and will schaer makes the ankle tackle after a gain of a yard third and five St Tech has scored on all four of possessions three touchdowns and a field goal big play coming up here for the ACU defense I think it's absolutely critical they need to try to force a punt here and get this thing situated around because we're getting into close to the the the middle eight which is four minutes of the first half and four minutes of that second half and they don't want Texas Tech to go down here and score on the football here so it's absolutely a critical down here but they got to get off the field here abing Christian Brooks on Third and five lowering the shoulder for the first down ran into jir Dudley didn't matter you're not bringing down Tosh Brooks that easily gain of eight I think coach kitley is doing a really nice job here on his third Downs as we go fast here again and whoops little false start there he was off to the RAC FSE start offense number three 5yd penalty first down Josh Kelly was ready to run that vertical he was ready to go he wanted to show everybody hey I got some speed here man was like the Olympics so that gun went off twice because of a false start one more and you're DQ hey the one point I was going to try to make S slowed it down a little bit is coach kley was talking to us is and I don't think abine's prepared for this is they're running the ball on third down and they're and and Coach Patterson's calling pass rush defenses getting up field vertical so on First and 15 here is Kelly on the screen and Killy makes up the penalty yardage out of bounds near Midfield gain of 12 Kelly's got good hands and excellent quickness sometimes I think if you get inside with to Fumble for that guy you're not going to catch that kid he's quicker than a hiccup man he was the leading receiver for Washington St see tapped his chest sorry man for that penalty but made it up with the screen play to follow perfect fit in this system he ran the exact same offense under Ben Arbuckle at Washington State Arbuckle was with Zack kitley at Western Kentucky a few years ago Brooks bending it to the perimeter and Tosh Brooks has the first down carrying it inside the 35 of ACU this is the thing I like about Taj Brooks is he forces it up inside the hole was closed he actually bumped into his offensive lineman but he bounces it outside and then you saw his acceleration his speed to get around the edge he's got power and speed gain of 16 Brooks comes out true freshman Cameron Dicky from Austin checks in he has been Turning Heads all off SE and Dicky crashes across the 30 it's a gain of five they call Dicky Captain America the coaches told us even the seniors noticed him very early in Camp like who is this guy he is built at 510 215 and he's got Breakaway speed and a timeout for ab and Christian here first time out of the half Christian 30 seconds yeah that that was a that was being used a really good time out there to look at Nick Colt there got a lot of experience coaching BCS was at USC with Pete Carol heck of a heck of a defensive line coach he's talking to his guys how they got to make a stop here going back to Dick they call him Captain America The Avengers man M Mike Franson loves The Avengers okay and I don't follow that kind of stuff but I do now but uh the thing that's unbelievable that I noticed when I was at practice and they did their run through on Friday his explosiveness and I I talked to Coach Perry the running back coach afterwards I said who's that guy that's Dicky that's the Freshman true freshman did a nice job of recruiting him and getting him over here to love [Music] it Brooks is back in at running back already 80 yards and a touchdown on 12 carries Tech is a team averaging better than six yards per carry Morton with plenty of time but he's swallowed up in the end sacked by Luke Gams a sophomore from witch itall Falls it's a loss of seven well we just talked about Coach Hulk getting after his boys here you see a good pressure they run a double double ET twist bring another guy up in the middle and they push the pocket good coverage on the back end and they get the sack Gams had a sack and a half last year as a freshman now a sack to open this season Morton dials it deep incomplete too tall for Kelly who was in a crowd and it's Fourth Down thir little bit overthrown obviously we saw but the thing that was really good about that it was overthrown because it was excellent coverage on the back end there with the safety and the inside nickel running with him up the field Texas Tech leads the nation in fourth down conversions over the last two years not a surprise to see them lining up here even on Fourth and 13 and now another timeout Christian 30 seconds ACU clearly not ready here yeah I think that was a mistake defensively by Coach Patterson from the standpoint of that they didn't substitute meaning Texas Tech did not substitute they tried to get their guys on Fourth and 13 get to his pass first Packers so they're going on fast ball they don't substitute so you see the officials off the ball there comes back up off the ball and they're trying to substitute they don't have to hold the play yeah so he has to call a timeout which was a good timeout you don't want to give him a chief fourth and 13 critical point in the game as far as it can't get out of hand here this is a big fourth down play here for Texas Tech Tech especially with the red Raiders getting the ball to start the second half exactly so fourth and 13 in plus territory yeah Joey McGuire is going to roll the dice Morton wants it all Conor he's got it for the touchdown jayen Conor wins the jump ball and Morton is money again [Applause] you talk about a beautiful throw in the corner of the end zone with accuracy he sets up in the pocket throws it where only his guy can get a little push off there Conor makes the grab I don't know if he got that foot inside there after looking at that they're going quick to kick it it will be reviewed you hear the booze here in lck yeah they got that I'm with you st it deserves a closer look it deserves a closer look I I took my eyes off it quickly myself and and typic this is what I love about football players right away I was in I was in they're always going to say I was in of course they're always in no I I really didn't have it yeah they're they're right yeah no no my bad yeah no they're going to take a peek at that thing it's going to be curious what they say I don't know if he got that toe in or not and Conor had to go SC high high for that let's take a closer look got a little push off there excellent coverage hand fighting no call there reaches back grabs the ball well left foot left foot does he have control when that left foot is planted is the question true now this is a better angle because I couldn't see with mfit in my way there he's got the ball the foot's down but does he have control see the foot comes up there I don't know if they're going to say he had complete control on that his foot was down when it touched his hands but I'm not sure if they're going to say he has control right there see the foot comes up there then and then he pulls the ball into his body but I got to tell you something I'm only like 25% that's why I'm up here and I'm not an official it's de remember called a touchdown on the field is there indisputable video evidence to overturn that well I'm a defensive guy I'm saying yeah he doesn't have of course you are you know being an old DC good hand F I'm glad they didn't call that but see there I don't know if he had control because the foot comes up too fast but either way it's a heck of a catch number one and number two that's quick chemistry because you know Conor and Morton they knew each other since third grade how about that third grade yeah Baron Morton was telling us yesterday they went to these air it out camps you a lot of seven on seven they're kids they always stayed in touch we're about to get the call here here is it a touchdown reviewing the play ring on the field with a touchdown STS St you know more football than I could ever hope to know I just didn't think there was enough there to overturn it I agree with you I can understand because because they called it a touchdown I completely understand but Coach Patterson if you bring him up here he going agree with [Laughter] st St still says his foot was up too fast so it is a touchdown for Morton and Conor's childhood friends reuniting here at Texas Tech and burkart adds the extra point this is a situation where coaches talk about that middle eight right now which is important so the fans can understand what I'm talking about the middle eight is the first the the last four minutes of the second quarter going into halftime and the first four minutes of the second half they call that the middle eight and in this situation they just scored within that 4minute period and oh by the way if they going to stop here Texas Tech gets the ball starting the second half where they'll want to go out and campiz again it's tough as a defensive guy too Ted as I'm rambling here fourth and 15 hurt you your heart breaks a little bit on those kind of [Music] situations Baron Morton Jo Maguire Texas never shy on fourth down they will always keep the pedal to the floor and it ends up with a touchdown here to stretch the lead to 32 to4 in that situation though because all these guys are analytical guys which I believe partially in analytics you know you still got to go by your gut in my opinion but that was a situation there where the field goal was too long and if you punt it and it goes into the end zone you're only going to gain about seven yards so I think that was a really smart decision on Coach McGuire's part burkart over the head of Banks and a Touchback touch on the kickoff now Texas Tech got out to a 15 to nothing lead early in this one mver and ACU fired back here in mver return to lumic where he spent his first three years of college football cut it to a score 22 to4 but 10 in a row from the Red Raiders and now ACU in a deeper hole yet again just one timeout remaining for the Wildcats 255 to go in the half and remember the two-minute morning/ timeout still to come don't you dare call it the two-minute warning how dare you on first down Sam Hicks couldn't slip The Tackle of Jacob Rodriguez he picks up three nice job by coach Buie keeping it on the ground using some clock here I think that's important with 240 left in the game here they'll have that clock ticking a little bit you got to go down and score here and try to keep Texas Tech without getting the ball back before the half just a three-man rush from Texas Tech underneath Cleveland hit right now by Rodriguez who makes another tackle it's a gain of only one good throw and catch there I think Cleveland doesn't have to hesitate he pivots and goes on the outside that could have been a big Gainer there nice job by a vision and break by the defensive back and Rick buy the offensive coordinator putting his hand up it's like he'll take it to the two-minute timeout new to college football this year it is the two-minute timeout or warning whatever you want to call it I just want to give yall one thing if I don't give you give yall anything from this entire speech that I that I learned from my time at Texas Tech and in the NFL and it's what I live by today is when you play this game you got to be Allin you got to be an Allin on everything you do now Patrick momes bleeds red and black he paid a visit here last week third down for ACU mver to Taylor over the top and Taylor has a touchdown a 71 yd bomb we talked about it earlier about how he's got good hands good body control but he also could take the top off the lid on the backside the corner squatted and he ran right past him Taylor barbecue CJ Baskerville the veteran [Applause] safety and here's vase for the extra point so just as Texas Tech was starting to separate ACU draws back to within 11 here's the play action fake takes it right up on top runs down the field on him and CJ just couldn't keep up with him CJ's a very aggressive defensive back and he comes down on here see him squat down inside here and then he runs right by him he has to take that inside hand and jam him in run with him and bla Taylor able to keep his balance too as Baskerville tried to trip him up he scored seven touchdowns last year and Taylor with a big one here to start 2024 they just show Coach parison on the sidelines that might be the biggest smile you're going to get out of him today going to be curious to see what they do now there's a minute and 50 seconds left with three timeouts so expect obviously a two-minute drill to be coming up on Texas Tech and what they got to do is they can't can't let mcra get that long t uh kickoff return run like he did earlier that 74 yd return and McCrae won't have a chance at this one well you saw just a snippet of Patrick Mahomes message to the 2024 Red Raiders football team he visited here in LC last Friday you'll see more of Pat's talk with Texas Tech coming up at the half plus a breakdown of the new 12 team college football playoff and highlights and stats from the first half it's always exciting when your Legends come back onto campus and Joey Maguire told us momes texts him constantly coach what do you need what can I do it's uncommon Mahomes flips it to Conor as they hooked up for the touchdown on the last drive and Conor with a first down out across the 35 gain of 13 nice job by coach kitley coming up they run Conor underneath on a little waggle naked bootleg faking off the counter into the flat nice perimeter blocking now it's Brooks across the 40 yd line and schaer with the tackle y the I like it's obviously a two-minute drill but they're being very methodical about it using the clock I think we got a little false start over there false start offense number 56 that penalty results in his Z set the game clock to 1 minute and 10 seconds 1 minute and 10 seconds yeah remember with the new two-minute timeout the 10-second runoff now applies in the final 2 minutes not just the final minute like previous years absolutely which was a very good call Old Devin uh Carter number 56 you only mentioned those old linemen those big old Molly Hawkers when they do something wrong you know but he you got a little ancy there so approaching the final minute now Morton dumps it to Tosh Brooks made one man miss and he's upended at the 43 by schaer who's been busy tonight ACU without their top two linebackers coming into the season Darius Moore and Rees young because of injuries yeah those that's a that was a big hurt right there with those two young men and four flags are out that's what I love in the history of college football when something like this happens the o line points to the dline dline points to the o line you know it's like it's guys they threw the flag they knew who jumped it wasn't me it was him exactly what are you talking about it's like you know when you're kids I didn't do it he did it yes F start offense number 71 Texas Tech has called the first time out of the half to avoid a 10 second R off 30 seconds yeah so they didn't want to bleed it down to 32 seconds with this penalty inside of 2 minutes Tech takes the time out to avoid the 10-second runoff and you see it could have been scurry it could could have been Caleb Rogers at right tackle absolutely and the guys uh AAL Christian's pointing to the left tackle and they're blaming it on the Right Guard I mean it's all over the place but smart decision here by Joey using the timeout instead of taking the 10 seconds he still got two left so 42 seconds remaining and two timeouts in the back pocket for Texas Tech now I'm going to see what coach kley is thinking here because if you notice every third down so far okay you hate to say ever every but every third down so far he's ran the football now with only 42 seconds now the nice thing about it is he runs the football and gets a first down the clock is going to stop yes so he can get back on the ball and get motoring down the field here but any event maybe a run play to set up a fourth down attempt instead Morton back to throw guns It Low and incomplete looking for 69 tight end Mason Tharp and Tech Will punt it away for the first time tonight got to tell you Ted moren's been playing a heck of a football game we got a little anany on that one and that's a huge huge win for abalene Christian to get them to punt the football and not let them go down and get some more points out of this the Aussie Jack Burgess replacing the Big 12 special teams Player of the Year Austin mcamera at hter for Texas Tech Henry the fair catch inside the 20 it's a 45 yd boot from Burgess transfer from Weber State in the FCS he's a he's a transfer guy but like you say he's from Australia and I got to tell you since they're in a little break right here my man coach Perry the special teams coach told me all about this his girlfriend comes and visits him from Australia right and she is a huge Zack Brown fan huge EXC EXC me Zach Bryan fan and she's he's going to have a concert in Dallas he couldn't come cuz he's in the middle of football camp so he sends her on a bus to Dallas to go see the concert instead of flying her up there a bus 5 hours and he said I thought the transportation system might be better in America not quite the same as public transit in Australia Johnson a nice run on first down we see how aggressive ACU is here here just one timeout final 30 seconds clock did stop momentarily with the first down good job of running the football and popping one out on him coming right back to it again and Johnson with a gain of three this time and maybe that'll be it for the half yeah they're he's been busy tonight ringing that Bell and that's it for the first half high-scoring first half to kick off the season here in Ling Maverick mver back here at Texas Tech where he started his career but it's Joey McGuire's Team Up by double figures they scored on each of their first five possessions 3221 at the break coming up we look back at Patrick momes visit as he made his way back to love to speak to the team just before the season it really is a weekend long celebration so good to have college football back in our lives week one and we've got a West Texas Shootout here in LC 3221 Texas Tech on top of the season opener he's Dave stle I'm Ted Emer the headline here FBS versus FCS you've got the disparity 20 plus scholarships the difference between these two schools and yet deck it is a game it's a really good football game once they settled down adaline Christian they're starting to get their air Ray going defense is playing well they got to come up with a stoper a takeaway here for the second half but Texas Tech is doing a good job we talked about the middle eight they get the ball the first four minutes interesting stat for you stats are useless information sometimes 85% of the time when you're leading at halftime you win the football game well it looked like Texas Tech was going to run away with this game Taj Brooks had the touchdown run early on after Tech had forced a three and out Baron Morton went to work he went to work got a back shoulder fade there tooy then they come up with a little trickeration here with the muddle huddle by Kenny Perry they go for the two points makes it 15 but then mcgyver comes right back beautiful touch in the end zone blown coverage on the squat the big tight end castles gets in there rumbles in there gets a nice touchdown on that one and Morton to aen for a second time KY aen matching his total from last year two touchdowns all of last season two touchdowns in the first half tonight and they come right back and score and you see the big outside fate here I'm still disputing this that he's foots out of bounds you know what sometimes like Bo Shen Beckler said it's just my opinion but you know I'm right and then they come back here to blame for nice long bomb coming in for the touchdown for the catch up yeah just as Texas Tech was starting to build a cushion there the 71 yd strike to make it 32-21 you see the numbers again ACU has put up nearly 300 yards of offense in fact out gaining Texas Tech so as you look ahead to the second half here Texas Tech has the ball to start the third quarter big possession for that ACU defense it is and the one big factor in this game that they have is Texas Tech has a takeaway aing Christian's got to get a takeaway or two to get them right back in this football game yeah Texas Tech will have the ball to start the second half here in LC as we kick off the 2024 season you're watching the Big 12 on ESPN now as we dip further into the night truly Under The Lights as the season kicks off tonight for Joey guire in his third year at Texas Tech abene Christian from the FCS and a two-score game 3221 the Red Raiders on top they LED this one 15 nothing in the first quarter but Keith Patterson's team able to fire back in Patterson's return to love he was the defensive coordinator for three years under Matt Wells from 2019 to 21 Tech ball to start the second half and a chance for Dre McCrae had a 70 plus yard return in the first half and McCrae is chopped down near the 30 This Time by Elijah Moffett that young man has a second gear you notice when he got the ball he got to the 10 yd line he kicked into a second gear mafa did a nice job of wrapping him up and Tackle to him well Tech couldn't be stopped for most of that first half stck five possessions five scores to open up before the punt very late and a half it was and the thing I think that really got after a and Christian in the first quarter is they had the turnover and they had four penalties but then in the second quarter they don't turn the ball over and they only have one penalty so something to keep an eye on as they settled down here in the second half Taj Brooks met right at the line on first down by Will schaer who has been productive the transfer from Arizona State filling in and really for both Darius Moore and Rees young two starters for ACU out with injuries that's right now he obviously is a transfer that you just mentioned but coach parison really likes this guy thought he has a lot of qualities that that Moore had Morton to the air and Jordan Brown with his first catch tonight and brown moves the sticks with a gain of 11 the fifth year senior from Dallas first Here Comes Your Tempo now that was kind of like stealing from over there they went trips to the one to the left three wide receivers in the middle receiver was uncovered quick hitter to aen who had two touchdowns in the first half schaer with the tackle as aen stepped out after a gain of one Morton working through the progressions and he hits aen did he get his foot in bounds yes he did a first down inside the ACU 40 yd line pick up of 23 that was a huge big time throw on a rope on the sideline gets his toe in the bound but that young man Morton threw that ball on a rope man that chemistry is just evident between Morton and aen off the pump oh Morton cocked his arm there and Morton throws it away this is exactly what the coaches told us yesterday that they would be talking to Baron Morton about hey if it's not there just toss it to the bench come back here on the other play to a and just look at that down the sideline good eye hand coordination he gets that left toe inbounds you see the official staring it down the sideline excellent call excellent catch very impressive John Carlos Miller the second transfer from Elon checks in at tight end and Brooks trying to steer it to the outside knocked down by Kirby cohil and jir Dudley after a gain of two with a counter o y what I say by oh y it's the opposite guard in the tight pull back across the line scrimmage on a counter play handing it to Brooks he had 84 yards in the first half something to keep your eye on here third down four down territory here I would expect they're coming in unbalanced here I expect a run right [Applause] now instead Brooks motions out of the back field and Morton fires underneath caught by Miller his first catch in a Texas Tech uniform it's a gain of eight and a first down John CL M on the side back there they moed him out to quads he just went over and sat in a little hole there and Tech right back over the ball and a flag down had a few motion penalties in the first half I'll start offense all 11 players never got set for a second 5yd penalty first down oh Tim ret with an alltime call there all 11 okay all 11 I never heard that one before but it was definitely a legal procedure there not quite up there with he was giv him the business but pretty close fifth fall start against Tech tonight off play action Morton caught and it's Kelly Kelly trying to spin out of trouble so Elusive and he's close to the first down marker it's a gain of 14 really good play by B there he wanted to look into the boundar on the corner route that was well covered by aene Christian felt a little po pressure got out of the pocket and used a little dump off hitch route there to Kelly who then took it for another four yards Kelly's fifth catch tonight 55 yds a transfer from Washington State it'll be that security blanket in the passing game second and one Brook steps out of a tackle oh getting a block from his quarterback and Brooks trying to cut it back first and goal for Texas TCH inside the five he broke the tackle of Chris Wright and baron Morton was leading the way came back here you see the counter trap back side he's nice and patient he cuts it back and what every college football player loves on your team is look at the quarterback out there not only one but gets two blocks out on the perimeter that's why they love this guy and he's a captain that Morton oh trying to sidearm it to Kelly and it's deflected will schaer got his hands on it boy Morton trying to go momes there with the different arm angle he did nice job by batting the ball down because if he doesn't bat that ball he's opening the flat for the touchdown here see a little motion he comes back out to the flat gets his left hand on it to disruptive play good job there by schaer schaer's Led ACU with 11 tackles tonight got his hands on that one second and goal Brooks weaving spinning and he is on the doorstep tackled inside the one by coh in that little short space there what you see out of Brooks there is his quickness agility and then you see how he finishes the run with his power very impressive and Brooks has eclipsed 100 yards it's its 13th career 100yd game third and goal will Brooks get it again yes and Brooks is tripped up by Dorian plumbley just short of the goal line fourth and goal I don't think the Texas Tech offense is coming off the field here they are not and they're going to pound it in there you see the offensive line coach clay McGuire he's out there fist pumping in his old lines and let's get this done we got a yard and a half let's go Stick it to him nobody goes for it on fourth down like Texas Tech under Joey Maguire 13th play of the drive fourth and goal outside the one Brooks again and he is engulfed David o' with the stop for ACU as the wild cat Stand Tall [Music] turn that is an excellent defensive stand coming up inside here they go back to Brooks uses his quickness angles up inside wraps him up and then they look at the Swarm around him turnover going the other way you got to be fired up here David o'e one of my favorite guys on abalene comes off on a nice slant move wraps up that body part look at that excitement he has he comes inside wraps it up and then look at the Swarm by the defense that wraps him up and that's just like a take away Ted they're going the other way now can they capitalize on that situation ok he had a strip sack against Missouri a couple of years ago in a game that you called in columia that led to a touchdown for ACU and he comes up with a big play here mver taking a shot on first down and Javon Gibson with the leaping grab across the 25 excellent job back in the hole they going to go for it see here a little stutter it's called an out and up comes over across does a nice job of catching the football the safety doesn't get over in time and they hit it right there in that hole and cover two Gibson in his first year with ACU after three years at Baylor one of 18 FBS transfers ACU brought in this season Aver tosses out of bounds so Keith Patterson of course former Texas Tech defensive coordinator told us say listen when you play an FBS opponent like we are you can view it as either an opportunity or an obstacle we've been stressing to our players hey this is an opportunity for you get excited absolutely you have these young players that come out here from an FCS standpoint the lower division even though they have a bunch of transfers and they're going to come up here they want to play and say hey we belong up here with you guys Banks motions into the back field on second and 10 mver with time and over through Martinez they found a pocket secondary mver couldn't hit him so you see the uneven first half especially to start for abene Christian but mver and the offense found a rhythm there in the middle of the half they absolutely did I think a lot of that those first two drives were Jitters they were so excited to play here the quarterback coming back home to his hometown and he used to play here was recruited here by Cliff kingbury they settled down their playing well there but that throw right there that last one he had his Jitters again cuz he had a wide open guy on the corner route third and 10 castles the tight end in motion fourman Rush mver slings it and a diving attempt by Taylor he comes down with it inside the Texas Tech 40 36 yds Ted I got to tell you the more I watch bla Taylor play look at him sting off he Dives leaves his feet and I wish he could zoom in on those eyes watch that ball go right into his hands now the slip screen for Taylor and he steps out of bounds with a gain of three back to the diving ground look at his eyes and how he looks it right into the ball plus the defensive back is all over him they could have easily thrown a flag on that bla Taylor might have a heck of a future coming down the road here I'm very impressed with his skill set and he let everybody know it's a first down inured Red Raider on the field Taylor down as well on the side line will step aside Maverick mcgyver here lean these guys down the field again here's some highlights from you beautiful fade around the corner to casti makes another little move for the touchdown settles down getes a little pump fake there goes vertical super catch coming out of there now look at his composure in the pocket looks One Way comes back the other way scrambles to throw hits the little dink out to CL Cleveland comes back in the pocket here steps up throws it down the field to Blink Taylor he takes it all the way to the endzone he's hitting his groove right now Ted I'm really impressed with it he's got second and seven now going down to score you have to imagine Maverick mver dreamed of this kind of performance inside Jones AT&T Stadium and he's doing it an ACU uniform second and seven and a first down run by roon Banks Jr and mver went four straight years without stepping onto the field from his senior year in high school to his first three years in college all here at Texas Tech because of injuries and now a three-year starter at ACU Banks with a crease and Banks is close to another first down really good job of perseverance and the other thing that I wanted to highlight there they threw that great graphic up there real quick about eight different receivers that's the air rate they want to spread the ball around so you can't Zone in on one guy and when you have a lot of receivers like they have it abalene Christian they did a nice job of getting these transfers coming in to help MacGyver out there he's doing an excellent job of spraying around and you got to tip your hat to Rick poy because he's right now he's coping keeping coach darer off balance a little bit AC you now in the Red Zone remember this drive started at their own four after the goal line stand looked like motion from the right tackle Trent ping false start offense number 57 5y penalty second down sometimes I see things great eyes once in a while yeah old Trent he was a little an there to get going man transfer from Oklahoma State you don't want to get in this situation here where especially down here in the red zone so second and one turns into second and six mver rifles complete to Nehemiah Martinez again former Red Raiders connecting there first and goal for abalene Christian coach darer he brought Max protection there and rodri excuse me that just went completely blankz Martinez thank you sir he had outside man coverage and beat him to the inside easy pitching catch there and not only is Martinez a former Red Raider he's a leic native from Cooper High School yeah two years ago he made an impact here at Texas Tech sure did Johnson already has a touchdown oh how about lowering the shoulder on Bryce Ramirez Johnson stayed on his feet and took it down to the one watch the replay here they go with a little counter o y here jumps up in the situation there comes downhill takes a big shot by by Ramirez keeps his feet bounces off it cuz he didn't wrap up now he's down to the one yd line here second and goal 10th play of the drive that started at the four banks with a flag down spilled just short of the goal line by Chapman Lewis they were in an unbalanced formation here they might get him for an un uh illegal formation cuz I'm not sure the outside guy was on the line of scrimmage we'll wait and see here offside Defense number four lined up in the neutral zone after this this to the goal line it's still second down so Maran horn the sophomore Corner called for the penalty yeah you know what move the ball a few Ines here well he was in pressed coverage over there and got a little bit too close to him and again Tech tonight without their top Corner entering the season brillan Lux because of a thigh [Music] injury second and goal inside the One banks reaching for the goal line he's got the touchdown and abene Christian is within a score [Applause] [Music] what a beautiful drive they have on this football thing capping it off with banks coming downhill exploding up in through the end zone very nice job there great play calling by buoy excellent job of going down the length of the field and like you just said they brought it within one score boy interesting to kick the extra point here if you go for two two you could cut it to three but ritzy vase is on for the Pat the transfer from D2 Midwestern State in wital Falls and he knocks it through a 96 yd touchdown drive for abalene Christian after the goal line stand to open the second half and it's a four-point game here in LC just a picture perfect start to the second half for Keith Patterson and abene Christian goal line stand followed by a 96 yd touchdown drive but St they really should have gone for two there right in my opinion they should definitely gone for two cuz if you go for two you don't get it you're down five you're still down a tght touchdown they kick the extra point you're down four called modern math you're still down a touchdown so there's nothing gained nothing ventured there and I really believe part of that might have been a situation with Coach new offensive coordinator coach F's got to get in his ear and say hey coach because coach is calling the defense now you know so four-point game Mesi kicking to McCrae and he'll bring it out one of the best return men in college football getting another crack at it and here he goes McCrae past Midfield and McCrae to the 35 yd line how does anybody kick to Dre McCrae tell you what Ted I'll tell you what watch this catch he's three yards four yards Deep In The End Zone Here Comes his burst set up real well cuts it back look at the explosiveness here now the other thing I like too is right here at the very end he's dragging some guys with him you can't give up that kind of a big play right when you got momentum they turned around Texas Tech and put the momentum right back into Texas Tech's hands St McCrae led the FBS with three kick returns of 50 plus yards last year he's got two of them tonight to start the 2024 season that one went for 65 yards that's incredibly impressive go Morton to Kelly for the touchdown Texas Tech strikes quickly 35 [Applause] yds that happened real quick there Ted Warren's having an impressive day he's 19 to 25 now fourth touchdown pass I'm very impressed with this young man what Happ what you could do when you're healthy [Applause] huh that shoulder is absolutely 100% that's a throw that Baron Morton probably couldn't have made late last year Garcia with the extra point and Tech back up two scores put that belt around the waist of Josh Kelly comes out here playing action fakes the counter flea flicks it back to him wide open safety bites on the Run fake and Kelly with his speed just runs past the secondary Morton money yeah again I was going to say he has matched his career high with four touchdown passes he might have been watching college game day this morning with Johnny Manzel on there with the money signal oh yeah money Manel meet money Morton I know nowadays nowadays in uh college football you can give that money signal for all that nil money they're making man he said hey money man I'm going to make some more money on that throw Yeah Boy Johnny wishes he could have in his day at A&M I'm not so sure he wasn't well that's a good point that's a that's a horse of another color yeah no kidding so Tech back up 11 and burkart to kick away to Martinez from the goal line pass the 15 and cut off just past the 25 by the kicker burkart so the half started with ACU Bo its neck stopping Tosh Brooks on fourth down and Maverick mver engineered a 96 yd touchdown drive a kyver with the Deep ball and a ridiculous catch by Blaine Taylor all the set up roon Banks's touchdown run ACU didn't go for two in that situation down five could have cut it to three and Dre McCrae with the big return followed by the fleet licker for the score for the Red Raiders and Tech is up 11 Ted it's early but the phone's ringing who's going to answer aalen's offense or Texas Tech defense and mver hits Trey Cleveland another former Red Raider for a gain of four good to see Quincy leet back on the field he was shaken up on the last drive he was questionable coming in with a calf injury although leet did practice all week he did and it's good to see a guy going out there and playing with his teammates Hicks sticks his nose in Rodriguez The Tackle after a gain of four so third and short for ACU this is where a nice experienced offensive line is taking charge out here opening up some holes for the running game big big big third down how big is big huge third thir down play right now for ABY and Christian they got to keep the ball in their hands wild cats are seven of nine on third down tonight great number Blitz up the middle and on Third and a yard move the chains Hicks stretches for the first down nice job on the short yardage down just a simple little Zone play coming off the ball cuts it back gets a little bit better job he bounces outside of Cleveland he could get a little bit more hay there however they got the first down and the chains are [Applause] moving mver keeps it this time and he whips it to Cleveland across midfield for another first down pick up of 12 as ACU picks up the tempo really good RPO run pass option there but what Cleveland did there he ran the went up into a dig route got him up over wide open over the middle of the field when coach daruda brought that simulated pressure up the middle Cleveland a Savvy player sixth year senior spent four years here at Texas Tech before spending last year at North Texas mver is over 300 yards passing 310 to go with two touchdowns under duress and castles is upended by horn the corner making the tackle in the open field really nice execution by the defense there aene Christian goes in motion and you see the corner run with the nickel runs back over the other side so mcgyver knows he's got man coverage so he dumps it off in the flat and Horn does a nice job of bursting to his man and wrapping up and making a great play for a tackle for loss two yd backtrack second and 12 Henry goes in motion mver connects with Taylor the sliding grab at the 41 of tech and it'll be third and two again for abalene Christian big third down again there again he shows motion he's trying to tell the quarterback are we in man or we in zone so this time they spin the safeties they don't run with them he knows they're in zone coverage a nice job of sitting down right in the middle of the Zone catching the ball cu another third and two manageable I would suspect a run here because they're in four down territory four down means you don't make it here you're going for it on Fourth and St ACU has brought in their biggest running back 235 lb Jordan vaugh on Third and two vau gets the call trying to push the pile and he's right close to the line to gain maybe a bit short I like vau he played he actually played linebacker at Wyoming always got a hard out for linebackers as he comes up here on the spot I always talk about the officials was it left foot or right foot looks like they gave him a left foot spot here it is fourth down less than a yard and the ACU offense remains out there final 30 seconds of the [Music] quarter can Texas Tech come up with a fourth down stop like ACU did earlier here in the third third they got their Biggins in there now 12 Personnel play clock running down and the Wildcats have to burn a timeout don't think Keith Patterson is all that happy with that coach there's certain things that that make coaches crazy and one of those is a substitution situation you got fourth and one you can either what they call Xerox mean copy the same play and go quick but they decide to put Personnel in there they got to be a little quicker a little bit more organized and that makes Coach Patterson a little crazy right now because you just wasted the time out here in the third quarter now the one thing I will say about that though is with the two-minute timeout so instead of having three a half you really got four so that's the beneficial for him right there sure and Kate Patterson sends out the offense again fourth and a half yard down by 11 on the road in the season opener Hicks is the running back maybe changing the play here plenty of time on the play clock Hicks met in the back field Jaden Coffield knifing through for a fourth down [Applause] stop here comes up on the r play you see the blitz they run a little te stunt and the slant move on the backside beautiful job of getting the tackle for loss they brought more people than you can block and that was a situation there good call by Tim darer packing the paint coming after it and boy that's what I love about college football look at that excit making a big play there Coffield a red shirt freshman out of Austin and from the same high school as TSH Brooks Coffield has known Brooks since he was a kid both went to Mayor High School there in the super synex region so Tech takes over final seconds of the third quarter from their own 42 Morton dumps it Caleb Douglas into ACU territory with a first down gain of 11 as we close out the third quarter ACU had it back to within a score but Texas Tech up start of the fourth quarter here in lck the season opener between Texas Tech and abene Christian and they have been swag surfing here in Leck during the timeout you see the score if you knew the spread coming in you're probably wondering what is going on abene Christian with so many many former Red Raiders on their coaching staff on their roster have put up quite the fight but after the fourth down stop by the tech defense Red Raiders have it plus territory and Tosh Brooks one of the best running backs in college football carries for four Brooks over a 100 yards yet again he had the game's first touchdown it could be a Taj Brook time right now talks about Taj time it's always touch time around here and on second down Brooks Nifty move to escape Dorian plumbley there gain of a couple and third and four now for Texas Tech now keep an eye on on this T where they've been running the ball whole lot on third down here I think Coach Patterson probably has a feel for that too for them going to run the football here here yeah cam Brown is in the backup quarterback the coaches say he'll have a role in The Run game here it is brown at 230 lbs picks up a couple and so it's fourth down here again prime territory in ACU's end of the field to go for it for Texas Tech yeah when cam Brown is in that football game like you just said but he's coming out now when cam is in that football game that is their system of a wildcat so Morton back in fourth and two Red Raiders going for [Applause] it and Morton's pass tipped at the line incomplete it was David O key who got his paw on it he had the tackle on the goal line stand to start the third quarter there is a flag down in the secondary however that's not good when it's in the secondary especially off of an RPO remember though tip pass there is no foul for defensive pass because the ball was tipped y it was an incomplete pass the result of the play as a turnover on Downs first down no Pi when there's a tip pass check if there's a hold first yeah he did hold but like like the officials said the balls tip coming off the line of scrimmage there nice job of getting their hands up in the air and deflecting that pass which negated the holding yep no penalty there and so abene Christian has it back wild cats refuse to go quietly here tonight as we kick off the season Maverick mver returning to Texas Tech where he started his college career 318 yds and two touchdowns and he finds Banks out of the backfield into Texas Tech territory banks on the wheel route for 21 really good scheme here on the backside you see the drag route the corner curl and they take Banks out of the back field and run the wheel route upside the sideline puts it into him Banks got to stay in bounds on that though [Music] I saw Banks play two years ago up at missou 2o when he was a true freshman really ex uh explosive good hands got some wiggle to him so now a first down at the tech 41 mver floats it for Taylor incomplete horn had the coverage the pass incomplete second and 10 yeah old MAV might have got a little greedy there he threw that into double coverage and they had a seam route going up the middle of the field wide open we also have a flag here personal foul illegal hands to the face defense 15yd penalty infor in the previous spot with an automatic first down number 61 can remain in the [Applause] game now check out Dylan Kenny the left tackle here for abene Christian coming back guy's got a good push oh yeah he gets right underneath the jaw now I'm going to I'm going to stand on my pedestal on this why can he that be illegal but offensive guys can straight arm you in the face and it's not illegal hands to the face but it was a good call by the official yeah Amir Washington called for the penalty there and Sam Hicks trying to get to the edge Jacob Rodriguez didn't allow it loss of three on the play I mean everything is catered to the offense right I'm sure you would say that as a long time defensive coordinator well I I say it because it's true yeah you see DB Carroll coming out Coffield checks back in up front for Tech I tell you what you just mentioned a name there I know we mentioned him because of the penalty but air Washington he had a huge bowl game and I have you haven't called his name much tonight he needs to come up and make a big play here had two sack against Cal mver off his back foot finds Martinez for the touchdown once again former Red Raiders connecting for six that looked too easy I was watching the pass rush with Washington on his bull rush and here comes the replay we can see comes in good play action Pockets clean runs a little corner right there's a climb route comes off all the way from the weak side side all the way back across and the backside Corner their cover three squatted and didn't get back on that outside third and St ACU's in the same situation as they were in the third quarter down by five not going for two here and that makes it a four-point game you still need more than a field goal but Maverick mver and the ACU offense just will not not quit Nehemiah Martinez made a few plays in a Red Raider uniform now he's doing it for ACU yeah go ahead get down Abaline Christian back to within a score fourth quarter here in lck Ted Emer Dave stle are entire crew Maverick mckyer piloting a four play 62 yard Drive Nehemiah Martinez on the receiving end of the touchdown both mver and Martinez used to be in the red and black now in the purple and white returning to Texas Tech iver's had a huge game but again ACU not going for two I I don't understand that one you talk about situational football and again the same coaching Point as before you're down five and down four smart move here on the drop kick avoiding Dre McCrae at all costs and that's a good decision and a fair catch called by Texas Tech and John Carlos Miller oh we've got four more exciting games in the Big 12 on ESPN Plus in week two St we will be in Fort Worth TCU in the Long Island sharks frogs with the big comeback win on the road against Stanford last night also West Virginia U Albany UCF Sam Houston Arizona Northern Arizona at 10 Eastern Big 12 is loaded this year yes it's a new look yes Texas and Oklahoma are gone but it could very well be the most compelling conference in the country as Brooks carries on first down for a gain of six watching the Big 12 for years and coaching it back in my past it's always got a very competitive balanced League conference and you never know on any given day in the Big 12 but let's not get ahead of ourselves Texas Tech got their hands full with aene Christian right now Morton fires to Kelly breaks a tackle at the 50 and Kelly down at the ACU 46 got away from Kirby cohil and it's a pickup of 22 made it too easy here they went with the play action on the counter play sucks up the linebackers drops it over their head to Kelly safety's got to come down and knock that thing out Morton stepping up and winging it look out here overshot everybody Douglas was the Target and Elijah mofet the safety for ab and Christian had a better shot at it yeah and I really think Morton on that time he hurried that thing he had a little bit more time cuz the offensive line did a really nice job of picking up the twist stunt up inside so he stepped up into the pocket I think he just got a little bit of Happy Feet and threw the ball too quick boy you kind of wonder why Douglas slowed up there too second and 10 and back into the belly of Taj Brooks and Brooks picks up about three 114 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries for Brooks who was the second leading rusher in the Big 12 last year behind Oly Gordon and the fourth leading rusher in the country nice football player there on the counter the game they came back with the same play but last time they threw the ball off the play action fake here they handed it to him on the counter play Third and down plus territory abene sub I'd be expecting a run here Texas Tech can always set up fourth down offensively third and six Morton to throw and Morton completes it to Kelly and Texas Tech is in the red zone Gabe White made the tackle 25 yds on the hookup beauti beautiful throw there goes pure drop back pass runs the Deep curl route back into Kelly on the money on the sideline Joy Maguire told us we just want Josh Kelly to find space in the secondary he's done that so well tonight now Brooks on the screen and Brooks picks up about five they went into what's called quads they had four receivers to the left side there and the big point was Brooks threw the ball to him got the five yards now they go empty 3 by two set Morton has thrown a career-high four touchdown passes tonight 3177 yards for the junior oh Morton was looking in zone ad living now and he hits Brown near the 5 yd line first and goal for Texas Tech nice job of AD living they tried to throw the ball into the boundary good job by Morton the defensive end drops into coverage here you see him drop into coverage gets underneath the out route so he goes in as livs here on a three-man rush nice job of coming back to the ball stch there was a penalty there we didn't catch the announcement but I believe it was against Texas Tech it is a hold against the Red Raiders so instead of first and goal Tex backed up outside the Red Zone here second and 15 fake the screen to McCrae Morton to the end zone incomplete over the head of aen who has two touchdowns tonight Tyson Williams back there defensively got third and long right here in this situation what I would anticipate okay they're having getting a lot of uh pass rush on this young man so far tonight so I can see there's coach paron they're talking about right now but I can either see them coming all out but now you're going to be susceptible watch him to come upside here drop eight just a fourman rush and Morton's pass is deflected at the line of scrimmage Kagan roach the transfer from North Texas got his hands up fourth down good fourman Rush he's pushing the pocket gets up inside there man that was almost like a volleyball play he batted that with both hands so Texas Tech will try for the field goal with 50the senior ree Burkhart again the rotation with him and Garcia this is burkhart's first field goal attempt in college from 41 yds P connects is good [Applause] and Texas Tech leads by a touchdown to see the smile on Keith Patterson's face there on the left abalene Christian's head coach former Texas Tech defensive coordinator it's a win for ACU to hold Joey maggu offense to a field goal there it's a touchdown game with eight and a half to play here St I know it's unbelievable it it really is unbelievable it's a one- score possession both coaches look really calm okay but that right now I call that the duck pose they look real calm on top but underneath those ducks are paddling like heck you know what I mean right now both teams it's so evenly matched 61 plays each 22 first downs each 450 yards each unbelievable statistic there the defenses some defenses going to have to stand up and take charge of this thing difference really is that l fumble by ACU early on Texas Tech cashed in with the short field and we've had quite a few fourth down stops here in the second half from each team Touchback here and ACU has it at the 25 it has been a night to remember for Maverick mver former Red Raider never gotten a game in his three years here now in his third year as the starter with abene Christian 369 yards and three touchdowns more yards than he threw for in any game last year very impressive very impressive and I think the thing that's more impressive is he started off really poor and I I'm sure a lot of it was anxiety the anticipation being here the excitement about being here but he has settled down and he's playing one heck of a football game they start with the handoff to Isaiah Johnson and Johnson picks up a couple nice job by the defense the offensive line that's their most experienced group over there with abene they got to time to take charge of this football game right now for them to get going boy mver was so excited when Keith Patterson hired Rick buy and installed the air raid coaches say that the talent that mver showed in high school at San Angelo Central is shining through now ball through the hands of Cleveland incomplete and it's third and eight yeah Trey wants to have that one back Cleveland wants to have that thing back came up with his hands a little bit too quick ball gave to him real fast has to react to catch that football now you got a third and eight situation here and ACU is eight of 11 on third Downs you know coming in the coaches for Texas Tech were pump to see more depth on defense they thought that everyone could play Harder Faster longer they have been tested here tonight can they get off the field mver to Cleveland for the first [Applause] down Jaylen peoples he's in there playing right now for the injured Lux and the one thing there is they going down there're hitting that seam r on the outside and his eyes go back to the quarterback okay watch watch the defensive Factory he makes a nice release he looks at the quarterback and there's an old saying when you see the quarterback throw the ball you're going to see the receiver catch the ball now it's Hicks the side step and a nice gain on first down about five yards after the 23 yd completion from mver to Cleveland that that was an excellent run by Hicks he was patient he was quick he came up down the sideline there excellent job by him on his part there being very patient on the outside Joy's getting a little frustrated there with that look on his face I've seen that look before in recruiting when I used to recruit his high school at Cedar Hill at Cedar Hill where he was a awesome coach there one a couple state titles hi motions out mver connects JJ Henry steps out of out of a tackle and Henry with a first down near the 35 gain of nine close to ro he brought the blitz here look at this here comes the blitz they're bringing for they dropped the guy weak and again the uh outside linebacker there excuse me CJ who's a safety he's playing outside man getting the hole wide open in the middle of the football field nearing the six-minute mark ACU drop diving for a potential game time touchdown Hicks up the gut and give him three Curry Ted the thing I like about this situation right now is coach Buy has it under control from the standpoint of there's 550 left in the game he's being very methodical about what he's doing how he's going about it he's not in a hurry he's not panicking showing calm on the sidelines and now you have an experienced quarterback to show the same thing to his teammates Forman Rush Henry took Johnson out of the back field the spin move and it's first and goal for abene Christian 28 yds most of it after the catch for Isaiah Johnson came back on the play they ran earlier where they go dig and cross and run the wheel route to the tail back up the sideline linebacker doesn't get over top on that and brings it up on the side first and goal now with five minutes to play in regulation dare we say it Johnson plugging away oh Johnson the second effort and he's in for the [Applause] touchdown Isaiah Johnson refusing to go down and ACU is within a point Ted I got to tell you man that was all Isaiah Johnson because on that left hand side there was two Miss blocks he made two guys miss and then he uses power to get up into the end zone excellent drive on behalf of abalene Christian ACU not going for two he here either on the road under five to play they'll take the tie as ritzy vase hits the extra point we are even at 42 in this matchup of FBS versus FCS in the season opener good luck trying to tackle Isaiah Johnson the LC native coming [Music] home the first meeting in 75 years between Texas Tech and abene Christian separated by a 2-hour Drive is a classic in the making here tied at 42 fourth quarter Ted Emer Dave stle our entire crew here in lck at the renovated Jones AT&T Stadium yeah somehow someway this game is tied as Isaiah Johnston punched it in for his second touchdown of the night once again the directional kick for abene Christian sending it away from Tre McCrae and Cameron Dicky the true freshman on the return out across the 30 yard line so 452 remaining even at 42 is it time to lean on the player that Joey Maguire told us I like to call him my wubby my security blanket TSH Brooks who of course is chasing the all-time rushing record here at Texas Tech this season well they keep bragging about Taj time it is Taj time right now they need to come down they got to use a bunch of clock because they can't they don't have an answer right now for aene Christian's uh offense so they have to use that clock they got to establish a good run game go back to the old airay where you're running going play action pass and move this thing down the field here Burks tonight 115 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries off play action it's Conor the tight end and coners the childhood friend of Baron Morton for the first down to start off the drive and yeah this is the man that Brooks is chasing this season the great Byron hands sparred was a star here in the mid90s for those Spike dkes teams Brooks 1,168 yards away to begin the season that's a number that everyone knows about in the Texas Tech football facility they want Brooks to break the record this one will help Brooks inside the ACU 40 and down at the [Music] 34 nice job you talk about right on Q they run the counter OT he goes to stick it up the middle watch him bounce it out to the little jump cut to the outside gets blocking on the perimeter and there we go now Kelly flaged down from behind the play Kelly has had a huge night in his first game as a Red Raider shoved out near the 20 but check the marker near the line of scrimmage holding offense number 80 10yd penalty and forcing the spot of the foul still first down yeah so Mason Thorp had the block to Spring Brooks on the previous run and now he's called for the penalty first game here you see a lot of penalties a lot of things that don't happen normal as the season goes on that coaches will get under control but that was a costly mistake to put him in a deficit here so first and very long and zipping it into Kelly oh how did he come up with that Morton found him for a nice gain to make up the penalty yardage 19 yards and it's second and one under four to play now Brooks with some space with a first down and Texas Tech in the red zone are right now you can see the the defensive line isn't coming off the ball like they were in the first half they're standing up you can see they're a little tired the hands on the hips my my man Oki there he's huffing and puffing they got to come up with a big play here right now and Oki has made two big plays on fourth down stops here in the second half for ACU fresh set of downs at the 17 Morton underneath Conor they started the drive this way and Conor inside the 10 they're coming back that they look like it's a little split Zone play and the receiver comes in and cracks the inside linebacker and it's a little dump pass and you can block down field because the ball's being caught behind the line of scrimmage by Conor there and he can run after the catch now they're using their clock here this is smart football use the clock be methodical you scored a touchdown that's awesome you don't want to leave him a whole lot of time on the other side of the football field Martin rifles incomplete ahead of aen D'Angelo Ponder the sophomore from Arlington had the assignment it kind of looked to me like that on that one aen kind of stopped a little bit I don't think they suspected the throw coming to him on the slant route which is Cam Brown has checked in the sophomore transfer from division 2 West Georgia he is a walk- on and he's in perhaps to run quarterback power snap didn't get to him but a flag is down false start offense number 72 5yd penalty still third down yeah the center Sheridan Wilson there that's tough when the center gets a a false snap count I think a lot little bit of that is with the cage change and the clap change in there with the quarterback and the center with a new guy in there I'm with you and the coaches STC have talked about it through camp we want Brown to have a role especially in the red zone but in this situation how risky is that well they've been practicing it so I don't know how much the risk is especially on a third and one and Morton could not connect with Kelly there so it's fourth down for Texas Tech and the field goal unit is coming [Applause] on burkart nailed one earlier and so it's Gino Garcia's turn again the place kicker from a year ago he's in the competition with Bart to start this season Garcia from 31 for the lead and he bangs it through Texas Tech back in front that's something to have one good field goal kicker these guys have too it's amazing how they just rotate them in and out there nice three-point lead here and the thing is now they got a up here on defense with 239 left in the football game Ted that's a lot of time and now remember they still have I'm going to call it three timeouts CH because on the score everybody's looking at the two but now with the two-minute two timeout that they have that's the extra one they have in their pocket so that's a whole lot of football time when you got three Time Miles and 242 on the clock and it's an eternity the way that Maverick mver has been roll rolling especially since those first two drives of the game where ACU went three and out and then turned it over MERS had a career night he's having a heck of football night all these kids that now we talked about earlier in the show in the open if you remember which I'm sure you do because you're a very smart intelligent man for the fans who haven't remembered this nine out of 11 guys on offense here came from Power five teams so they have experience and six of them came from Texas [Music] Tech Martinez signals for the fair [Music] catch more than 1,000 yards of total offense tonight in the season opener this is no run-ofthe-mill blowout of an FBS team over an FCS team absolutely not and this is you can talk all you want to talk about but this is two air raid football teams on display here where it's like a almost like a track meet now what you need to do Texas Tech's got to come up with a stop they want to win this football game Keith Patterson ACU's head coach told us this week this is the most confident tight-knit talented team I've had in my three years here by far they went five and six a year ago and they're taking Texas Tech to the Limit here tonight in the season opener Hicks bangs his way into AJ mccardy for a gain of [Music] three mver has thrown for 428 yards and three touchdowns again a career high in yardage that that's absolutely awesome for him coming home and playing like this the icing on the cage is going to be can I drive him down here in this two-minute situation to win the game trying to find Hicks out of the back field and Jacob Rodriguez almost came up with it for Tech that's a smart football player the reason why I said is you know you fool me twice they came back to that boundary wheel route and he snuffed it out did a nice job of get to it third and seven [Applause] I love this cat and mouse here what's the offense going to do what's the defense going to [Applause] do mver flings it and it's caught by Martinez a first down into Texas Tech territory 23 yds [Music] Ben Roberts was in a great position there as their linebacker and believe it or not one little coaching point there as he comes in there he didn't roll into the receiver he rolled the other way two-minute timeout slw warning in lck this has been more than just a competitive game to start the season FBS versus FC s 170 m apart abalene Christian going down I2 up us84 and giving Joey Maguire and the Red Raiders all they want former Red Raider Maverick mckyer with a career night 451 yards and three touchdowns and he's got the wild cats on the move again down by three with under two to play it's very impressive we're going to see what's going on here after the two-minute time out out the in Crazy stat for me is Texas Tech only scored 13 points this second [Applause] half and out of the timeout Johnson stopped in the back field Mari on banks they call him Duda dropped him for a loss of three nice play by Banks they needed that nice little tackle for loss put him again a disadvantage here second and long obviously with the clock ticking they still got their two timeouts but everything's going to be a four down situation Texas Tech has not lost to an FCS opponent since 1998 23 straight wins that's in Jeopardy swing pass to Johnson and he's cut down after a short gain by Roberts and Rodriguez well designed play there they ran trips to the boundary ran the guys off tight end comes out on the flat they dump it off to the tail back with a lead blocker over there to get some plus yardage here under a minute to play abalene Christian still with two timeouts here looks like Tech's playing coverage here mver off his back foot underneath to Martinez and wrapped up in bounds by Jacob Rodriguez big play by Rodriguez sorry to interrupted there and the reason why that was open in space they ran the whe route with a drag this time ayra went to the drag route and uh Rodriguez came up and made a very good sound tackle rapid body part okay watch here's the wheel R here's the double drag Martinez coming across the ball gets the ball excellent job of coming down wrapping body parts and holding that fourth down and now they're in a critical fourth down situation as they used to say this is for all the marbles let's go and funny enough 's new kicker ritzy vase he kicked a 54 yd game winner last year here again ACU just outside of that range yeah you got to go for it on Fourth and four absolutely so ACU calling the timeout here one left for Keith Patterson what do you draw up here St I know you're a defensive guy but I got to ask you I understand stand personally I have a feeling that the rder is going to coach the rder defense corner is going to bring some type of pressure in my humble opinion I'm going to go back to the old air right here where they're going to run mush routes and spacing get some Crossing routes or sit down right by the sticks here comes the stem move here comes the pressure game at stake fourth and four mver to the sideline it's Henry for the first down inside the 35 stops momentarily with the first down here inside of 2 minutes and AC right back over the ball so they don't have to burn their final timeout mver finds Cleveland and a flag is down behind the play so the clock stops at 24 seconds flag down in the pocket there it's going to be interesting on this call my eyes were downfield personal foul roughing the passer defensely 50 g with a low hit half the distance to the goal from the end of the play first down wow remember Jaden kield the defensive tackle who had the fourth down stop earlier what do you think St ah I'm going back to my defensive Roots here I understand to me it was a one step and hit him I didn't know I don't know the ru right now to be honest with you in Pros that's probably bad because below the knee I didn't know if college has the same rule but that kind of look so a first down inside the 15 now 24 seconds just a three-man Rush mver hits Martinez and tackled in Bounds at the five and abene Christian calls its final timeout with 13 seconds now here's the thing about that timeout when you talk about situational football they hit a nice job on the curl route but he didn't get the first down so now they took the timeout and there's only 13 seconds on the oh they moved it back to 15 seconds on the clock they got to throw to the end zone here they got to make plays not enough time to run the football and get back on the football here Cesar looks it off come over here nice little cor rout sits down in the hole good job of coverage there they hold him from the first down and they lay on him a little bit they got to take the time [Applause] out this is the theme for abalene Christian all night former Red Raiders returning to lck mver Martinez and quite a few others leaving their fingerprints all over this game mver has thrown for 485 yds and three touchdowns I hope what they did to that defense over they got to challenge the defense and the defensive front to go get pressure on the quarterback here make them feel uncomfortable cuz there's only 15 seconds hold the ball a little bit longer now are they going to play coverage or are they going to play man as Tech has opened up it's renovated Jones AT&T Stadium the anxiety levels have ratted it up and now timeout for Joy Maguire and the Red Raiders defense good time out he want to see what formation he's going to come out in here's the cat and mouse game of college football obviously they're in 12 Personnel now if I'm on the other side of the field right now I'm not showing them the same formation cuz the Texas Tech want to take a look at that formation they saw FSL which means they have three receivers into the formation is into the sideline over in the boundary and it was 12 personnel with the big people I'd come back out here and go with 10 Personnel spread them back out and give them a different look especially coming out of the Huddle I mean Tech has barely gotten any pressure on mver all night I know and I thought they were now that's the one thing though the experience of abalene is their offensive line they had good skilled players that came in and transferred but that old Line's been together for 3 years now but they coming back out with the exact same look what is technically second and one from the four Cleveland in motion mver up top to Cleveland incomplete Chapman Lewis the firste starter knocked it away unbelievable defensive play of the Zone comes out he's got the advantage there Ball's a little thrown a little bit late oh he got he hit him right in the chest that should have been a touchdown there for sure CH Lewis made a heck of a play on that to regroup Jo McGuire and his coaches say that Lewis reminds them of rabbit Taylor was a fourth round pick of the Cardinals taking over that spot and coming up big here in the late stages third and a hard mver Fade to Taylor overshot it Taylor going up against Maran horn and it's fourth down with 7 Seconds to play on comes the field goal unit to tie the [Music] game good decision here you're the underdog you're going to take it into overtime 21 yd try for ritzy vase the grad transfer from division 2 Midwestern State and Joey Maguire wants vase to think about it timeout Tech it's good time out you can't take him home with you let him think understand he's been at Midwestern State hopefully it's something really simple for him to do but in this environment let him think a little bit longer face was 13 of 18 last year for Midwestern State there in witch Falls nailed a 54 Y at the gun to beat Eastern New Mexico so he's come through in a clutch situation can he do it here from 21 [Applause] sharp angle for ritzy vase out of the hold of Hugo Nash to KN it up and vas does just that with five seconds remaining we might be heading overtime you know the one thing I will say about that is that was you you brought it to the attention that was a very tough angle with that ball being where it's at and the goal post coming from the right hand hash as impressive [Music] kick ACU is in its 12th year of division one football here in the FCS they are 1 in 15 all time against teams from the FBS the football bowl subdivision the only win for ACU came 10 years ago against Troy 38 35 and here they have a chance on the road against Texas Tech again a game that has not been played since 1949 even though these schools are 170 miles apart it it's very impressive coach Patterson's done a really good job of getting these guys motivated getting them settled down homecoming for him as well coming back here it was kind of cool before the game when I was talking coach on the sideline and Texas Tech players were taking a walk there had been 15 10 15 kids stop hug him shake his hand much respect they have for Coach Patterson and he's coming back in here he's got his team ready to play that's for sure rule number one here don't kick it to Dre McCrae angling it to Jordan Brown instead a close out regulation and brown is twirled down at the 25 on to overtime to kick off 2024 can you believe this is this awesome or what we got more football coming college football is back and back in a big way way here in the Big 12 kicking off 2024 yes we are in overtime between Texas Tech and abene Christian Ted Emer Dave stle our entire crew so you throw the game clock out the window now of course if you win the coin toss you want to play defense you want to know what you have to do when you get the ball with your possession each team will get the ball from the opponent's 25 now you must start going for two after the touchdown with the second overtime and then with the third overtime it's just a series of two-point conversions correct and they did that a little time over time I got a little trivia for you which you know trivia is useless information okay I was fortunate enough in 1995 when they instituted the overtime rule was in the bowl season of 1995 and the very first bowl game that that year we played Nevada and that game went into overtime and how did it turn out we won and now you know the rest of the story Paul Harvey there you go so ACU wins the coin toss and yeah a few fans in purple and white here in lck tonight so Texas Tech will have the ball first here in overtime standout Nights from both quarterbacks Baron Morton the Undisputed starter entering the season for the first time in his career at Texas Tech has thrown for 362 yards and a career-high four touchdowns Joy Maguire's just wondering if his defense can stop Maverick mckyer on the other side career high 485 with three scores so from the 25 it's Brooks who has a 100yd night and he picks up three here to start OT Lawson and Co bring him down it's time to run that guy he's got to get after it now second seven situation not worried about clock Morton pulls it and finds Mason Thorp the giant tight end rumbling for a first down First Catch tonight for Tharp who goes 69270 you're right he was Lum R rumbling but he was rumbling with some force and some [Music] strength it's important to protect the ball oh looked like Morton wasn't quite ready for the snap gives it to Brooks and he's inside the 10 to Rooks the ball carrier right now that old Line's got to take over here you good nice job here they're running the counter oh y here with the tight end coming back on the backside nice kick out block gives him a nice little [Applause] seam first possession of overtime Texas Tech LED this one 15 nothing before ACU came to [Applause] life Morton dumps it to coners and coners is swallowed up by coh so third and 11 on the way thought Morton was going to try to hit Brooks in the flat yeah he went out in the flat there looked like a little wide delay there he is screened to the tight end sniffed out perfectly by abene Christ's defense nice play by roach big play here third and [Applause] 11 they bring four Morton dumps it Douglas breaks a tackle and he's got the touchdown he broke free from Dorian plumbley and the Red Raiders are on top in [Applause] overtime nice job here with Baron he comes in the pocket he get pressure on there doesn't finish the fame scrambles the throw like we talked steps up keeps his eyes down fied throws a nice route to Douglas across the middle now he does his little dance in the end zone Douglas goes by Payday on social media payday just hit pay dirt and Reese burar with the pat 5245 as Douglas has got the belt now he does it's belt in perfect time look at his eyes downfield he steps up he keeps his eyes downfield throws it to tgas with a nice catch missed the tackle always comes back to that and comes on into the end zone now the nice thing here T is abalene Christian got to see what they got to get so now they know they have to get a touchdown in the extra point I'll just say it now stck if ACU scores a touchdown here would you go for two in the win no and I'm saying that because he hasn't gone for two when he was supposed to all night I you're right about shocked if he goes I'm ask if you would do that but no you know what you're going to put the whole game in one play when you can go play another quarter or excuse me another overtime now it's Maverick mckyer turn the Red Raider turned Wildcat he wants it all on the first play and it's incomplete through the hands of Blain Taylor remember the full extension in the second half couldn't come down with this one that's a rear play by Taylor he's usually uh like Mr All State the good hands people there good throw good accurate throw it's oh he took his eyes off there at the last minute had a little bit of an alligator arm there coming up into the ball here he had him he went and took their shot he wants he wishes he had that one back mver on the Move directing traffic lobbing it for Martinez out of bounds mccardy was locked up on Nehemiah Martinez that might have been his worst throw all e evening you know you got to try to keep it in bounds give your guy a chance to make that play right there it's okay they got they got two two downs to make a first down here we were talking about him being a TV star you know mcgyver coming with his Sharpshooters on the horse let's see let's see what he's got in his gun right now third and 10 mver Taylor's got it and he's got the first down cork screwing inside the 15 excellent play on the mat Taylor's tapping to come out I don't know if that's good right now in this situation I'd be over in the sideline say man you're our go-to guy you got to stay out there nice little drag right there a natural pick by Martinez and he sticks it up for the first down so Taylor checks out Javon Gibson back in a first down for abene [Music] Christian Johnson the leic native two touchdowns tonight probing for a few excellent Push by the interior at line with Hatton and Y feeling nice push up the middle on a simple Zone play [Music] mver fires Johnson out of the back field and knocked down by horn at the one yd line first and goal for abene Christian cuz the thing that's impressive about that that's the fourth time they went to this play where they're having the drag routes and the tail back wheel and they only defended it once you see Rodriguez couldn't get up over top like he did last time now you got first and goal at the [Music] one mver has surpassed 500 yds passing first and goal here in overtime Johnson straight ahead ACU player signaling touchdown and the official does two the third score of the night for the loic product Isaiah Johnson ACU within a point decision time for the Wildcats coming in unbalanced set here simple little Zone get a big push up top unbelievable by the right side there with feeling and pulling and they just push things up inside there it looks like they're going for two he didn't go for two all night he's going for the win on the road season opener underman FCS opponent against Texas Tech from the Big 12 and the abene Christian offense remains out there they're going to take a look at this Tim Rich the referee heading all the way across the field to the viewfinder you know it took a while for the officials to peel back that onion near the goal line they eventually signal touchdown they did and now the thing that's happening right now which is really exciting to see is he had to come all the way down to get the replay okay as you see the replay on our TV screen right now with the big push-up inside there personally I think he had a touchdown because his shoulder and the ball is across the line now the strategy is happening where both teams get like that unofficial timeout to talk about what's going on here with the two-point play and now which we all know they've been practicing two-point plays all summer camp yeah okay after reviewing the play ruling on the field stands touchdown so what is their go-to play on their two-point conversion which we probably should have asked them that in our pregame uh uh meetings with them would have been really interesting if we had the inside skinny on what their two-point play was how about you draw it up what would you go with well me personally if I'm go on a two-point play I go speed option with the guy because they're they're expecting pass I did it out in the perimeter those receivers do a good job of blocking but they're doing something here I expect something going to the boundary because we talked to Coach earlier in the game about how he likes to go to the boundary but they just put quads to the field the question is are they going to isolate Taylor into the boundary and two of those four receivers out there are tight ends of course they going to have time out here each team with a timeout in overtime and Texas Tech calls its timeout they wanted to take a look at that now there's the other thing when you get those two big tight ends out there in the perimeter maybe a bubble with those two perimeter blocking and now you got bla Taylor on the backside to the next receiver Keith Patterson told us this week ACU's head coach we are going to be aggressive all season long and we want to make that statement in game one against an opponent like Texas Tech they've hung 51 on the Red Raiders they've already done that and now going for two and the win here in overtime you see coach there his headsets are off he's like okay this is for all the marbles here this don't need the headset where's our call let's go play [Applause] it once again the four receivers to the top of your screen including the tight ends castles and Brian Henry the game hangs in the balance ACU going for two mver hit he goes down Jaden Cofield with the sack and Texas Tech survives in overtime to open the season [Applause]