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1991 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ28444466 ↗
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The 1991 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth season under head coach Spike Dykes, the Red Raiders compiled a 6–5 record (5–3 against SWC opponents), finished in a tie for second place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 315 to 272. The team played its home games at Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1991 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team” is american college football season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Texas, Tech and Raiders, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Texas, Tech and Raiders is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1991 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.