Texas Tech Achieves Top Ten Status
October 16, 2005 | Football
Oct. 16, 2005
LUBBOCK, Texas - For the first time since the start of the 1977 season, the Texas Tech Red Raiders are ranked among the nation's top ten teams. Tech enters this week ranked eighth in the USA Today Coaches Poll and tenth in the Associated Press Poll.
The ranking is the highest for a Red Raider team since Sept. 12, 1977, when Tech was eighth in the Associated Press Poll. Tech reached its peak for that season the following week, when the Red Raiders were seventh. The highest ranking in Texas Tech history occurred during the 1976 season, when Tech held the No. 5 position for three-straight weeks in the AP poll.
The Red Raiders began the 2005 season ranked 21st in both polls and have steadily climbed throughout the season. Tech's consistency in the polls this year reflects the first time in head coach Mike Leach's six seasons that the Red Raiders have been ranked every week of the season.
Tech (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) knocked off Kansas State, 59-20, on Saturday to remain perfect on the season. The Red Raiders face another unbeaten and the nation's second-ranked team when they travel to Austin this weekend to face the University of Texas (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ABC will broadcast the game.
Texas Tech is currently in the middle of an eight-game winning streak, dating back to last season. The Red Raiders also have won nine of their last 10 games.