Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire fired back at Texas with a sharp scheduling jab as the Red Raiders-Longhorns rivalry keeps simmering.
Texas Tech football and Texas may not be sharing a conference anymore, but Joey McGuire clearly has no interest in letting the rivalry die quietly.
The Red Raiders coach added fresh gasoline to the Texas Tech-Texas feud while discussing future nonconference scheduling at the San Antonio Quarterback Club.
McGuire said Texas Tech is working to add a major opponent for the 2027 and 2028 seasons, but made it clear who he doesn’t expect to see on the other sideline.
“It won’t be Texas because they’re scared,” McGuire said.
Subtle? Not even close. Effective? Absolutely.
The jab comes after Texas coach Steve Sarkisian previously took his own swing at the Red Raiders’ schedule.
Sarkisian said, “There’s a team in our state that plays in another conference that has a schedule that I would argue if I played with our twos and our threes, we could go undefeated, and they’ll probably make the CFP this year.”
That wasn’t exactly hard to decode.
Texas Tech, though, has earned some room to clap back. The Red Raiders won the Big 12, still a Power Four league, and reached the College Football Playoff while Texas missed the field despite wins over Texas A&M and Oklahoma.
The postseason didn’t go how Texas Tech wanted, with Oregon shutting out the Red Raiders 23-0 in the Orange Bowl, but McGuire still has a conference title to point at.
Texas owns the most recent on-field bragging rights, blasting Texas Tech 57-7 in 2023 before leaving the Big 12 for the SEC in 2024.
That move ended the annual rivalry game and left plenty of bitterness behind.
Now the fight has shifted from the scoreboard to the microphone.
And honestly, college football is better when coaches aren’t afraid to throw a little heat. McGuire just did, and the Longhorns heard it.
