As the final few minutes wound down on the latest Texas Tech football win in a season chock full of them, I knelt just beyond Jones AT&T Stadium's south end zone and tried to take it all in.

I looked toward the northwest corner end zone, thinking about Jamie Gill's perfect-strike touchdown pass to Travis Price to beat the Aggies in 1989. I looked over to the southeast end-zone corner, remembering Zach Thomas's pick-six to conquer the Aggies in 1995.

Oh, things change with Jones AT&T Stadium. The new south end zone building skyscraper put me in the shadows. But when the Red Raiders have it rolling, the vibe from the bleachers feels the same as it did 30 or more years ago.

I know a great many folks favor Tech football memories that happened after dark. For me, there's something ab

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