Final Whistle Feeling: Texas Tech escapes Corvallis with a win

The final score looks comfortable, but neither the game nor the flight home felt that way to anyone watching. Tech has struggled away from Jones AT&T Stadium in recent years, and non-conference road trips have been an especially rough stretch since that last win eight seasons ago. Corvallis is about as far from Lubbock as this program travels for a non-conference game. Getting a win there, even an ugly one, ends a drought that's followed this team for years.

For Tech fans, the box score matters less than the label attached to it. A jarring performance still counts as a win, and this one erases a talking point that's dogged the program since 2017. Nobody in Lubbock will remember the details of this one in December, but they'll remember that the streak ended.