Viva The Matadors: for Texas Tech fans: Recent Episodes
Albert Nkansah
The official home for audio programming from Viva The Matadors, SB Nation's community for fans of the Texas Tech University Red Raiders.
Texas Tech performed top to bottom better against the Oregon Ducks. Unfortunately for the Red Raider faithful, they still fell just short in Week Two. The guys talk about what happened in this game at the positional level, grading the various group performances. They also grade both the offensive and defensive coordinator and discuss what can help the groups earn better grades next time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our normal Sunday podcast was moved to Monday as a lot of the guys were traveling back from Lubbock, and yours truly has lost his voice due to screaming at the tv and a wedding in the same weekend. As such, our man Joe talks about his experience in the first home game. How was the experience with the new fanfare? What did he see from the Red Raiders in the stand? What are his thoughts overall on the narrow defeat to highly ranked Oregon? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The guys take a look at the schedule, what can we expect in 2023? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Can Tahj Brooks really go for a thousand yards? What receivers are going to have a breakout year? How good can this offense really be? All this discussed and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The title says it all, the guys are back to get you ready for the year with a defensive preview! Can the DL stay productive? How do the linebackers look? And just how good is the secondary going to be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Colorado to the Big 12 appears to be finally happening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We chat with the expert on all things Cincinati in the final edition of our Big 12 newbies primer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our newbie series continues, this time with an expert on BYU! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our series with the newbies continues, this time with the expert on UCF. What can be expected from one the hottest group of five teams of the last five years? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joe was onsite for the Red Raider practice the other day, and talks about what he saw during that experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sam from the UH centric Pawdcast (neat) joins the guys to chat about the upcoming entrance to Big 12 football for the Coogs. Please note, our audio got a little garbled when Joe asks a question by our recording service a bit, so our apologies and we are working a solution for next time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Macon, Jack, and Joe talk about the baseball season as a whole. From what went wrong at the end, to the highs, to the lows, and everything in between. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joe runs solo and crushes it, running through day one and the overall regional picture for the Big 12 as the Road to Omaha begins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chris and Joe are back, they recap the Big 12 tournament, best quarterback rooms in the conference, some regional baseball talk! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Once again the Red Raiders play are at a crossroads and have the chance to play a winnable game to prove that this is a winning team. Can Texas Tech FINALLY put out a statement in a must-win game and actually stack success? Albie & Jeramey get together to answer that very question.
Texas blew another lead, OSU is for real and K-State probably isn't! After a week hiatus, Albie & Jeramey are BACK to review this weeken'd past games in the Big 12 as well as take a look at the games going on this upcoming weekend.
Good teams beat up on bad teams & that's just what Tech did! The Red Raiders dominated all phases of their win against the Jayhawks en route to a 41-14 victory that was never in doubt. Albie & Jeramey recap a fun day in Lawrence.
The Texas Tech football team is 4-2 7despite some troubling losses have a prime opportunity to go 5-2 and inch that much closer to bowl elibility. Jeramey & Dylan preview a team that's been a thorn in Matt Wells' side: Kansas.
For the second time this year, Texas Tech laid an egg against an in-state opponent, this time losing to TCU 52-31. The T&T gang muster up enough energy to discuss the embarrassing output from this past Saturday.
This Saturday night, Texas Tech will be playing in the Jones, during Homecoming, blacked out, wearing throwbacks. This is the type of game that used to be a guaranteed good time for the Red Raiders, will it be? TCU is hoping to make it an unceremonial homecoming. The T&T gang preview this game of two teams at a crossroads.
The Big 12 saw many fairly close games this past week (not including the Kansas game) so Albie & Jeramey got together to review them all! Did Texas and Oklahoma survive their pre-Red River scares? Also we take a look at that Cotton Bowl rivalry coming up.
Despite being without 6 of Tech's best players and 2 more getting hurt during the game, the Red Raiders STILL manged to find a way to get the victory.Henry Colombi & co. grabbed an early lead and held on to grab the victory. The T&T crew get together to recap what just might be the best win in the Matt Wells era.
This past Saturday may not have been to kind to Texas Tech fans but it was a wild ride for the rest of the Big 12. In case, there was any doubt that this conference season was not going to be as crazy as the non-con, a ranked team gets upset, another ranked team barely survives and a team that should have been ranked gets beat by their rival. True madness. Albie & Jeramey recap this and try, TRY, to predict more craziness next Saturday.
IT'S TIME! The Red Raiders get the first conference shot at new Texas Head Coach Sarkisian, new QB Casey Thompson and the SEC bound Longhorns. What can we expect between two teams that both had an up and down non-conference schedule? We are soon to find out!
A wild and wacky Saturday in the Big 12 was highlighted by the first conference game of the season, an upset over a ranked opponent and the craziest interception we've seen in a liong time. Albie and Jeramey detail out the games from this past weekend and look ahead to next week's slate!
The Texas Tech Red Raiders came back from a 14 point halftime deficit to shutout the Houston Cougars in the second half and win 38-21. The gang is back together to recap this impressive victory in the season opener.
Basketball is here! After a long season of football we are excited to talk about a very talented Texas Tech Basketball team. We preview Texas Tech's schedule, make bold season predictions, and talk about Chris Beard's potential rotation going into the 2020-2021 season.
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Texas Tech is coming off a bye and will be starting a new QB against West Virginia on Saturday. Will it be enough? We preview the key matchups and give our predictions for the rest of the games in the BIG 12.
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Texas Tech falls short for the second week in a row with a loss to Kansas State. Join Albie Shore and special guest Rob Breaux (The Rob Breaux Show) as they break down the offensive and defensive performances from Matt Wells' Red Raiders.
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Texas Tech survives a close game against Houston Baptist. We try and make sense of the game, and breakdown what we are calling "the worst win in Texas Tech history."
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If Texas Tech is going to take a substantial jump in their run defense it all starts up front. This episode we're looking at the big guys on the defensive line and will analyze the men trying to fill the gap left by Broderick Washington.
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We're talking about the big boys today on the podcast. The protectors of Alan Bowman, the offensive line! We break down the interior of the line and speculate as to who will start at both tackle positions.
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Linebackers! In this installment of our position previews, we take a look at one position group full of new faces. Can Riko Jeffers build on the momentum of linebackers before him?
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Sports are back and so is the Air Raid Podcast! Over the course of the next month, we're going to be previewing each individual position group as we approach fall football. Today, we take a look at one of Texas Tech's strongest groups, wide receiver.
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In this very special edition of the Air Raid Podcast, we are joined by former Red Raider, Toddrick Gotcher. We ask Toddrick how quarantine life is going, what he thinks about the current program, and much more!
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