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The finish came down to the final minute. Houston quarterback Conner Weigman found Patrick Overmyer for a 10-yard touchdown to cut the deficit to two points, then rolled out on the two-point conversion attempt and came up inches short at the goal line. It marked Tech's first win over an AP Top-25 opponent this season.

Head coach Joey McGuire leaned into the outside skepticism after the win, pointing to a team still figuring out its identity through three games. For a program that's heard plenty of doubt about whether it belongs in the Top 25 conversation, beating a ranked Houston squad on its own turf answers at least part of that question, even if it wasn't pretty.

For folks around Lubbock, the win means the buzz around this team isn't going away anytime soon. Saturdays downtown and around the stadium are about to get louder, and expectations are climbing fast for a squad that just won by two points against a team many picked them to lose to.

Tech survived by the width of a lunge at the goal line, the kind of margin that either builds a team or exposes it.