# List of Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons

The Texas Tech Red Raiders college football team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A), representing Texas Tech University in the Big 12 Conference. Texas Tech has played its home games at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas since 1947.
Texas Tech (then known as Texas Technological College) fielded its first intercollegiate football team during the 1925 season. The team was known as the "Matadors" from 1925 to 1936, a name suggested by the wife of E. Y. Freeland, the first football coach, to reflect the influence of the Spanish Renaissance architecture on campus. In 1932, Texas Tech joined the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association, also known as the Border Conference. The school's short-lived Matadors moniker was replaced officially in 1937 with "Red Raiders", a nickname bestowed upon them by a sportswriter impressed by their bright scarlet uniforms that remains to this today. That same year, the team won its first conference championship and was invited to the Sun Bowl. The game was played on January 1, 1938, and resulted in a 7–6 loss to the West Virginia Mountaineers. Texas Tech suffered four more bowl losses before their first postseason win in the 1952 Sun Bowl. Before withdrawing from the Border Conference in 1956, the Red Raiders won nine conference championships, the most held by a Border Conference member.
In 1956, Texas Tech was admitted to the Southwest Conference (SWC) but was ineligible for any title during a four-year probationary period. It gained full SWC membership and began official conference play in 1960. The Red Raiders won conference championships in 1976 and 1994. The team remained in the SWC until the conference dissolved in 1996. The university was invited and became a charter member in the South Division of the Big 12 Conference.
This is a list of their annual results.

## Seasons

| Year | Coach | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Coaches$^#$ | AP$^°$ |
| Ewing Y. Freeland (Independent) (1925–1928) ||||||||
| 1925 | Ewing Y. Freeland | 6–1–2 | | | | | |
| 1926 | Ewing Y. Freeland | 6–1–3 | | | | | |
| 1927 | Ewing Y. Freeland | 5–4 | | | | | |
| 1928 | Ewing Y. Freeland | 4–4–1 | | | | | |
| Grady Higginbotham (Independent) (1929) ||||||||
| 1929 | Grady Higginbotham | 1–7–2 | | | | | |
| Pete Cawthon (Independent) (1930–1931) ||||||||
| 1930 | Pete Cawthon | 3–6 | | | | | |
| 1931 | Pete Cawthon | 6–3 | | | | | |
| Pete Cawthon (Border Conference) (1932–1940) ||||||||
| 1932 | Pete Cawthon | 10–2 | 2–0 | 1st | | | |
| 1933 | Pete Cawthon | 8–1 | 1–0 | 1st | | | |
| 1934 | Pete Cawthon | 7–2–1 | 1–0 | 1st | | | |
| 1935 | Pete Cawthon | 5–3–2 | 0–1 | 6th | | | |
| 1936 | Pete Cawthon | 5–4–1 | 0–0–1 | 4th | | | |
| 1937 | Pete Cawthon | 8–4 | 3–0 | 1st | L Sun | | |
| 1938 | Pete Cawthon | 10–1 | 2–0 | 1st | L Cotton | | 11 |
| 1939 | Pete Cawthon | 5–5–1 | 2–1 | 3rd | | | |
| 1940 | Pete Cawthon | 9–1–1 | 0–1 | 6th | | | |
| Dell Morgan (Border Conference) (1941–1950) ||||||||
| 1941 | Dell Morgan | 9–2 | 2–0 | 1st | L Sun | | |
| 1942 | Dell Morgan | 4–5–1 | 3–0–1 | T–1st | | | |
| 1943 | Dell Morgan | 4–6 | 0–0 | N/A | | | |
| 1944 | Dell Morgan | 4–7 | 2–0 | 1st | | | |
| 1945 | Dell Morgan | 3–5–2 | 1–0–1 | T–1st | | | |
| 1946 | Dell Morgan | 8–3 | 3–1 | 2nd | | | |
| 1947 | Dell Morgan | 6–5 | 4–0 | 1st | L Sun | | |
| 1948 | Dell Morgan | 7–3 | 5–0 | 1st | | | |
| 1949 | Dell Morgan | 7–5 | 5–0 | 1st | L Raisin | | |
| 1950 | Dell Morgan | 3–8 | 3–2 | 4th | | | |
| DeWitt Weaver (Border Conference) (1951–1956) ||||||||
| 1951 | DeWitt Weaver | 7–4 | 5–0 | 1st | W Sun | | |
| 1952 | DeWitt Weaver | 3–7–1 | 2–1–1 | 2nd | | | |
| 1953 | DeWitt Weaver | 11–1 | 5–0 | 1st | W Gator | 12 | 12 |
| 1954 | DeWitt Weaver | 7–2–1 | 4–0 | 1st | | | |
| 1955 | DeWitt Weaver | 7–3–1 | 3–0–1 | 1st | L Sun | | |
| 1956 | DeWitt Weaver | 2–7–1 | 1–3 | N/A | | | |
| DeWitt Weaver (Independent) (1957–1959) ||||||||
| 1957 | DeWitt Weaver | 2–8 | | | | | |
| 1958 | DeWitt Weaver | 3–7 | | | | | |
| 1959 | DeWitt Weaver | 4–6 | | | | | |
| DeWitt Weaver (Southwest Conference) (1960) ||||||||
| 1960 | DeWitt Weaver | 3–6–1 | 1–5–1 | 6th | | | |
| J. T. King (Southwest Conference) (1961–1969) ||||||||
| 1961 | J. T. King | 4–6 | 2–5 | T–8th | | | |
| 1962 | J. T. King | 1–9 | 0–7 | 8th | | | |
| 1963 | J. T. King | 5–5 | 2–5 | T–6th | | | |
| 1964 | J. T. King | 6–4–1 | 3–3–1 | T–4th | L Sun | | |
| 1965 | J. T. King | 8–3 | 5–3 | T–2nd | L Gator | 10 | |
| 1966 | J. T. King | 4–6 | 2–5 | T–6th | | | |
| 1967 | J. T. King | 6–4 | 5–2 | 2nd | | | |
| 1968 | J. T. King | 5–3–2 | 4–3 | 4th | | | |
| 1969 | J. T. King | 5–5 | 4–3 | T–6th | | | |
| Jim Carlen (Southwest Conference) (1970–1974) ||||||||
| 1970 | Jim Carlen | 8–4 | 5–2 | 3rd | | | |
| 1971 | Jim Carlen | 4–7 | 2–5 | 5th | | | |
| 1972 | Jim Carlen | 8–4 | 4–3 | T–2nd | L Sun | | |
| 1973 | Jim Carlen | 11–1 | 6–1 | 2nd | W Gator | 11 | 11 |
| 1974 | Jim Carlen | 6–4–2 | 3–4 | 6th | | | |
| Steve Sloan (Southwest Conference) (1975–1977) ||||||||
| 1975 | Steve Sloan | 6–5 | 4–3 | 4th | | | |
| 1976 | Steve Sloan | 10–2 | 6–1 | T–1st | L Bluebonnet | 13 | 13 |
| 1977 | Steve Sloan | 7–5 | 4–4 | T–4th | L Tangerine | | |
| Rex Dockery (Southwest Conference) (1978–1980) ||||||||
| 1978 | Rex Dockery | 7–4 | 5–3 | 4th | | | |
| 1979 | Rex Dockery | 3–6–2 | 2–5–1 | 7th | | | |
| 1980 | Rex Dockery | 5–6 | 3–5 | T–6th | | | |
| Jerry Moore (Southwest Conference) (1981–1985) ||||||||
| 1981 | Jerry Moore | 1–9–1 | 0–7–1 | 9th | | | |
| 1982 | Jerry Moore | 4–7 | 3–5 | T–6th | | | |
| 1983 | Jerry Moore | 3–7–1 | 3–4–1 | T–5th | | | |
| 1984 | Jerry Moore | 4–7 | 2–6 | 8th | | | |
| 1985 | Jerry Moore | 4–7 | 1–7 | 8th | | | |
| David McWilliams (Southwest Conference) (1986) ||||||||
| 1986 | David McWilliams | 7–5 | 5–3 | T–4th | L Independence | | |
| Spike Dykes (Southwest Conference) (1986–1995) ||||||||
| 1987 | Spike Dykes | 6–4–1 | 3–3–1 | 4th | | | |
| 1988 | Spike Dykes | 5–6 | 4–3 | 4th | | | |
| 1989 | Spike Dykes | 9–3 | 5–3 | 4th | W All-American | 16 | 19 |
| 1990 | Spike Dykes | 4–7 | 3–5 | T–5th | | | |
| 1991 | Spike Dykes | 6–5 | 5–3 | T–2nd | | | |
| 1992 | Spike Dykes | 5–6 | 4–3 | T–2nd | | | |
| 1993 | Spike Dykes | 6–6 | 5–2 | T–2nd | L John Hancock | | |
| 1994 | Spike Dykes | 6–6 | 4–3 | T–1st | L Cotton | | |
| 1995 | Spike Dykes | 9–3 | 5–2 | T–2nd | W Copper | 20 | 23 |
| Spike Dykes (Big 12 Conference) (1996–1999) ||||||||
| 1996 | Spike Dykes | 7–5 | 5–3 | 2nd (South) | L Alamo | | |
| 1997 | Spike Dykes | 6–5 | 5–3 | T–2nd (South) | | | |
| 1998 | Spike Dykes | 7–5 | 4–4 | 3rd (South) | L Independence | | |
| 1999 | Spike Dykes | 6–5 | 5–3 | T–2nd (South) | | | |
| Mike Leach (Big 12 Conference) (2000–2009) ||||||||
| 2000 | Mike Leach | 7–6 | 3–5 | 4th (South) | L Galleryfurniture.com | | |
| 2001 | Mike Leach | 7–5 | 4–4 | T–3rd (South) | L Alamo | | |
| 2002 | Mike Leach | 9–5 | 5–3 | T–3rd (South) | W Tangerine | | |
| 2003 | Mike Leach | 8–5 | 4–4 | 4th (South) | W Houston | | |
| 2004 | Mike Leach | 8–4 | 5–3 | T–3rd (South) | W Holiday | 17 | 18 |
| 2005 | Mike Leach | 9–3 | 6–2 | T–2nd (South) | L Cotton | 19 | 20 |
| 2006 | Mike Leach | 8–5 | 4–4 | 4th (South) | W Insight | | |
| 2007 | Mike Leach | 9–4 | 4–4 | T–3rd (South) | W Gator | 23 | 22 |
| 2008 | Mike Leach | 11–2 | 7–1 | T–1st (South) | L Cotton | 12 | 12 |
| 2009 | Mike Leach | 9–4 | 5–3 | T–3rd (South) | W Alamo | 23 | 21 |
| Tommy Tuberville (Big 12 Conference) (2010–2012) ||||||||
| 2010 | Tommy Tuberville | 8–5 | 3–5 | 5th (South) | W TicketCity | | |
| 2011 | Tommy Tuberville | 5–7 | 2–7 | 9th | | | |
| 2012 | Tommy Tuberville | 8–5 | 4–5 | T–5th | W Texas | | |
| Kliff Kingsbury (Big 12 Conference) (2013–2018) ||||||||
| 2013 | Kliff Kingsbury | 8–5 | 4–5 | 6th | W Holiday | | |
| 2014 | Kliff Kingsbury | 4–8 | 2–7 | 8th | | | |
| 2015 | Kliff Kingsbury | 7–6 | 4–5 | T–5th | L Texas | | |
| 2016 | Kliff Kingsbury | 5–7 | 3–6 | T–6th | | | |
| 2017 | Kliff Kingsbury | 6–7 | 3–6 | 7th | L Birmingham | | |
| 2018 | Kliff Kingsbury | 5–7 | 3–6 | T–7th | | | |
| Matt Wells (Big 12 Conference) (2019–2021) ||||||||
| 2019 | Matt Wells | 4–8 | 2–7 | 9th | | | |
| 2020 | Matt Wells | 4–6 | 3–6 | 8th | | | |
| 2021 | Matt Wells | 7–6 | 3–6 | T–7th | W Liberty | | |
| Joey McGuire (Big 12 Conference) (2022–Present) ||||||||
| 2022 | Joey McGuire | 8–5 | 5–4 | 4th | W Texas | | |
| 2023 | Joey McGuire | 7–6 | 5–4 | T-7th | W Independence | | |
| 2024 | Joey McGuire | 8–5 | 6–3 | T-2nd | L Liberty | | |
| Total: | Total: | 605-486-32 | | | | | |
| National championship  Conference title  Conference division title or championship game berth ||||||||
| $^†$Indicates Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance, BCS, or CFP / New Years' Six bowl. $^#$Rankings from final Coaches Poll. ||||||||