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Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast

Texas Tech DESTROYED by Oregon: What Went Wrong in the Orange Bowl?

Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast

Pete Mundo

Sports, Football, Basketball

4.8870 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How did Texas Tech struggle so mightily in the Orange Bowl? Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo reacts to the Texas Tech vs. Oregon game in the College Football Playoff.


From offensive struggles to a long layoff and more, we recap the Red Raiders loss in Miami Gardens.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's be honest, that did not go as planned for Texas Tech or the Big 12 Conference.

0:06.4

Welcome in. I'm Pete Mundo.

0:08.1

Heartland College Sports is how you find us and follow us covering the Big 12 Conference.

0:13.6

So glad that you are joining us after a brutal loss for Texas Tech destroyed by Oregon in the Orange Bowl, a college football playoff quarterfinal game, 23 to nothing.

0:27.0

You can subscribe to the channel if you're a tech or a big 12 fan or if you're just a college football, college basketball fan.

0:32.5

We've got a lot of great content that's going to be coming your way as well throughout the basketball season. we always appreciate our radio affiliates being here as a part of the show as well.

0:42.6

That was a bloodbath for Texas Tech.

0:46.2

That could not have gone any worse.

0:49.8

I mean, sure, the defense was tremendous.

0:54.0

I firmly still believe this is the best defense in the

0:57.8

country. But you know what? You squandered away the greatest defense in college football this

1:04.7

season with an offense that we knew was potentially going to have some issues if and when they got to this level of the season.

1:12.7

And that's exactly what you saw happen in this game on Thursday.

1:16.8

You saw an Oregon defense that felt like it was not getting enough credit.

1:21.6

It was not getting enough love.

1:23.2

It was not getting enough respect.

1:25.2

And they made Baron Morton look like a backup in 1A football at the high school level.

1:34.1

That's what they made them look like.

1:35.8

Three turnovers, a couple of interceptions, one fumble that, of course, was a strip sack that led to the Oregon touchdown that put them up by two scores.

1:43.4

It was an abysmal performance all around for the Red Raiders offense.

1:49.6

The defense held up.

1:51.8

The time of possession in the first half was 22 to 8.

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