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Born to Call Plays: The Making of Mack Leftwich

Sep 17, 2025, 1:56 PM

Texas Tech offensive coordinator Mack Leftwich is stepping out of Eric Morris' and G.J. Kinne's shadows and living out a lifelong dream of calling plays on college football's biggest stage.

Born to Call Plays: The Making of Mack Leftwich

Long before Texas Tech offensive coordinator Mack Leftwich was leading the nation’s top scoring offense, he was calling plays for the Sanger Indians near his hometown of Denton.

One of his fondest memories took place in old Celina Stadium when Leftwich aligned the Indians in an unbalanced formation and ran student-body right and student-body left for an entire game. Sanger won in a blowout. 

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