Texas 44 Tech 13 Prop: 277 I actually drove through (or around) Lubbock for the first time in August. Looked like an out-of-the-way San Marcos wannabe. The airport seemed to be half full with Amazon, FedEx, UPS, etc. Story time: I never had hate for our little prairie bro - certainly not like the meths up north or the klan-on-the-Brazos. Back in the 90s I was dating a gal whose aunt worked for NBC as a marketing VP. She gave us 4 tickets to the '95 Cotton Bowl. They were nosebleeds but who cares. Tech won the 5-way tiebreaker to get the invite. We didn't give a shit about Tech but figured we could rustle up some red t-shirts and go to the game. Outside the stadium, some scalper made a deal to swap all 4 tickets for 2 lower 25-yd-line tickets - on the visitor's side. We didn't care and made the deal. Of course, Tech got blown out. By half-time, we might have been the only red in the stadium. Some Trojan fans wanted to talk shit until we told them we weren't Tech fans and didn't care. Went back to the hotel and got drunk, then laid. When she got drunk, she only wanted pooper, so I had that going for me, which was nice. That's the only time I've seen Tech play football. I wasn't impressed then and I'm not impressed now.