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No. 13 Texas Tech holds on for 28-26 win over No. 22 Houston in Big 12 opener · Best of: Features

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  Number 13. Texas Tech stops a late two and beats number 22,
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  Houston, 28-26 in Big 12 opener. This article is being read by
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  an automated voice, generated by Everlet. Lubbock, Texas, the AP.
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  Jacoby Williams and Cameron Dickey ran for second half touchdowns in defending
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  Big twelve champion, number thirteen. Texas Tech held on for a twenty
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  eight twenty six victory, Friday night when Houston quarterback Connor Wygman came
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  up just short of a two point conversion in the final minute.
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  Wiegmann's third T D pass, a ten yarder to Patrick Overmeyer with
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  forty nine seconds left, gave the Cougars two one zero one, a
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  chance to tie in the conference opener for both teams. On the
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  try for two, Wigman took off to The
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  left and lunged forward with the ball extended, though his knee came
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  down before the ball broke the plane of the end zone. There's
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  no moral victories, Houston Coach Willie Fritz said. We came here to
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  win, and we didn't win. The audience viewing on Fox Sports was
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  able to watch and listen to the big twelve replay officials at
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  the conference headquarters reviewing and discussing that play before ruling that Wiegman
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  was short. That was one of several replays on which viewers got
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  an inside look. Will Hammond was seventeen of twenty seven passing, for
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  two hundred and fifty seven yards, and a touchdown for They Red
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  Raiders, three zero one zero, who were down ten zero and had
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  only one offensive snap nine and a half minutes into their first
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  Friday home game since nineteen forty one. It just shows the resilience
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  of this team and the belief they have in each other. There
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  was never a time that those guys got down. The just kept
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  fighting. Tech coach Joey Maguire said. I just continue to believe that
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  as the season goes, we'll keep getting better and better again. Wegman
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  finished twenty seven of thirty-eight for two hundred and eighty two yards.
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  After only two carries for five yards before halftime, Williams had consecutive
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  runs of nineteen, five and twenty nine yards, the last a burst
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  through the left side and pretty much untouched to they end zone
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  to make it twenty one seventeen, only two and a half minutes
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  into the second half. Dickey had a
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  one yard scoring run with seven thirty six left. Houston led seventeen
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  fourteen just before halftime, after Kobe Young made an over the shoulder
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  catch and pinned the ball against his shoulder pads while falling over
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  the pylon for a forty six yard touchdown. Hammond had a twenty
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  eight yard pass to Kenny Johnson to convert third and twelve, before
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  they also hooked up for a thirty five yard touchdown a minute
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  into the second quarter. Johnson finished with four catches for one thirteen
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  yards. After a field goal on the game's opening drive, the Cougars
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  immediately got the ball back on Will James's nifty interception along the
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  sideline when Tommy Castellanos, who started instead of Hammond, was trying to
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  throw away the ball while under pressure. That led to Amar Thomas's
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  eleven yard T D reception, when he twisted and extended the ball
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  lunging forward toward the end zone while being knocked down for a
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  ten zero lead. He was initially marked short, but it became a
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  score after a replay review. Hammond is Tech's number one quarterback. Castellanos,
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  the former Florida State and Boston College quarterback, didn't join the Red
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  Raiders until a week before the season opener. After the interception, he
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  didn't take another snap until his three yard T D run with
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  three thirty nine left in the first half. Will Hammond is our
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  starting quarterback. We have packages for Tommy, and those packages will continue
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  to grow, Maguire said. We had two plays were going to run
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  right there. If we don't get pressure, then I think we have
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  a huge play starting right off the bat. The plan was two
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  plays and will come into the game Hammond had been expected to
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  be The starter this year before an ACL injury last October, but
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  there was also the off season saga surrounding departed transfer quarterback Brendan
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  Sorsby, who would have started but was declared ineligible after an NCAA
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  gambling investigation. Hammond, meanwhile, had no setbacks in his recovery and was
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  ready for the start of this season. The takeaway Houston. The Cougars
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  were 6-0 in road games last season on way to a ten
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  win season. Houston had 104 yards rushing by halftime, and finished with
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  176 against a Texas Tech defense, whose seven game streak not allowing
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  100 in a game was the longest in FBS. Texas Tech. The
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  Red Raiders won their tenth consecutive home game, though they gave up
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  more than seventeen points for the first time in that stretch. It
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  is their longest home winning streak since twelve in a row from
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  two thousand seven zero nine. Up next Both teams play their final
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  non-conference game at home September 26. Houston hosts Georgia Southern and Texas
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