What's Next for Texas Tech, Texas A&M in College Football Playoff Draw?

A pair of Texas teams – Texas Tech and Texas A&M – were two of the 12 teams that reached the College Football Playoff. The Lone Star State has sent five different programs to the CFP since 2022. The only two that haven’t made it are Houston, which became a Power Four program in 2023, and Baylor, who would’ve made a 12-team field in 2021 after winning the Big 12 in Year 2 of the Dave Aranda era. 

Texas Tech is the four-seed and will be one of the teams receiving a bye to the quarterfinals. The Red Raiders will face the winner of Oregon and James Madison in the Orange Bowl. Texas Tech finished the regular season 12-1 and won the Big 12 championship for the first time. It was the first outright conference championship for the Red Raiders since the 1950s. They won every game that starting quarterback Behren Morton played in by three scores or more. Joey McGuire won a state championship as a high school head coach in Year 4 at Cedar Hill and he hopes to add a national championship in Year 4 as a collegiate head coach at Texas Tech.