Mississippi
Shough leads Texas Tech over Ole Miss 42-25 in Texas Bowl
HOUSTON (AP) Texas Tech’s first-year coach had an ideal day.
Joey McGuire acquired a brand new contract with a hefty elevate earlier than main the Crimson Raiders to a 42-25 victory over Mississippi within the Texas Bowl on Wednesday night time.
”It is a fairly superior day,” McGuire stated. ”I actually do love this place, love this workforce, love the varsity, love every thing about Texas Tech … we’ll work each single day to achieve our targets at Texas Tech.”
Tyler Shough threw for 242 yards and a landing and ran for 2 extra scores as Texas Tech took benefit of three early turnovers to construct an enormous lead and held on for the victory.
Shough, who completed with a career-high 111 yards dashing, accounted for 3 TDs within the first two quarters to assist the Crimson Raiders (8-5) to a 26-7 halftime lead. He overcame meals poisoning that had him up all Tuesday night time vomiting to earn Texas Bowl MVP honors.
”If we’d have performed at 11 o’clock this morning he would not have been in a position to go,” McGuire stated.
Shough stated he spent the night time curled up by the bathroom and needed to get 4 IV’s Wednesday simply to get by the sport. He stated he joked along with his teammates that he’d must bounce again like Michael Jordan did in his notorious ”flu sport” for the Crimson Raiders to win.
”I felt like absolute crap main as much as it,” Shough stated. ”I used to be beginning to fade on the finish of the sport. I undoubtedly must eat one thing fairly quickly.”
Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart had 361 yards passing with two TD throws and a scoring run. However, he threw two of his three interceptions and misplaced a fumble within the first half to place the Rebels in an enormous gap.
”Once you make expensive errors and you do not play as much as the usual and assist our workforce win the sport, that is actually irritating,” Dart stated.
The victory gave Texas Tech its first eight-win season since 2013 and capped a profitable debut for McGuire, who was given a six-year, $26.6 million contract earlier Wednesday.
The loss continued a horrible stretch for Ole Miss (8-5), which dropped its closing 4 video games, and 5 of its final six, after opening 7-0. The Rebels performed a sloppy sport with 5 turnovers and eight penalties for 86 yards and had two defenders ejected for focusing on.
”This could have been an ideal sport to win down right here towards an excellent workforce and exit for these guys that it was their final sport,” coach Lane Kiffin stated. ”Credit score to them. I believed they did an ideal job stopping the run.”
Ole Miss scored consecutive touchdowns to get to 35-25 with three minutes to go. The Rebels tried an onside kick, however Texas Tech’s Loic Fouonji grabbed it and returned it 44 yards to push the result in 42-25.
The Rebels completed with 197 yards dashing, led by freshman Quinshon Judkins, who had 91. Judkins completed the season with 1,567 yards dashing, the second-most by a freshman in SEC historical past behind Hershel Walker (1,616).
HONORING LEACH
The Crimson Raiders used their first offensive play to pay tribute to former coach Mike Leach, who died Dec. 12 at 61. Texas Tech lined up in Leach’s well-known ”Air Raid” formation with the lineman unfold far aside and 4 receivers out huge and easily stood there till a flag was thrown for delay of sport.
Kiffin declined the penalty, and the Crimson Raiders then ran their first play.
”There’s only a few individuals on this sport which have modified the sport the way in which he did,” McGuire stated. ”We simply wished to come back out and honor him, tip our cap to him.”
Each groups additionally remembered Leach, who coached at Texas Tech from 2000-09 and was the coach at Mississippi State when he died, with helmet decals. Texas Tech’s seemed like pirate flags as a nod to his fascination with pirates, and the Rebels’ decals stated `Mike’ with the `I’ within the form of a cowbell for Mississippi State’s custom of utilizing them at video games.
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