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2021/03/01 01:03 Bret Bielema saw a unique opportunity to accelerate a turnaround at Illinois when he returned to college football as head coach of the Illini in December. The NCAA's decision to grant every fall sport athlete who played through the pandemic an extra season of eligibility meant Illinois could bring back a large group experienced players to be the foundation of Bielema's first team in Champaign. Schools are not obligated to bring back those players and give them scholarships, but Bielema said he made it clear at his first team meeting that a...

Giving, taking relaxed transfer rules Texas Tech football has been both hurt and helped by the relaxed NCAA transfer rules. The landscape of college football has seen some dramatic changes in recent years, most notably from the NCAA relax the rules with regard to transfers of athletes. Texas Tech Head coach Matt Wells seems to be making the most of this, but it also had its downsides to the Red Raider football program. One of the latest transfers to announce his arrival in Lubbock is arguably the biggest yet. Offensive tackle TJ Storment, who garnered All-Big 12 honors at TCU last season, ...

The Texas Tech Defense Could Look Significantly Different in 2021 The Texas Tech defense gave up nearly identical points per game through Big 12 conference play in 2019 and 2020. That's really the only defensive stat that matters, but there's another one that's pretty striking. The Red Raiders defense gave up 365 yards per game through the air against Big 12 teams in 2019. In 2020, they erased 142 yards per game and only gave up 223 yards a contest. That's a big jump. That's with mostly the same quarterbacks on the opposing sidelines from one year to the next. The rush defense regressed a bi...

Matt Wells Confirms More Seniors Will Return for Extra Season After Colin Schooler and Riko Jeffers surprisingly announced their return to Texas Tech in the midst of coaching turmoil last week. Since the coaching staff issues have been resolved and Coach Wells is back healthy there have been more announcements about Seniors returning to Texas Tech. During Wells' signing day press conference the head coach mentioned Travis Koontz, McLane Mannix, DaMarcus Fields, and Seth Collins as guys who would return to the program in 2021 as well. Wells also mentioned there were several more who were weigh...