Oregon Ducks defensive back Jadon Canady imagn The smallest spread (-2.5 points) in the 2025 College Football Playoff Quarterfinals finds #5 Oregon Ducks battling #4 Texas Tech Red Raiders in the Capital One Orange Bowl at noon on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. Oregon dispatched #12 James Madison in the in the First Round, while Texas Tech received the last bye-round position in the postseason.
The next head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders had been a true underdog candidate at the start of the search process. To folks outside the Lone Star State, he was a relative unknown. This wasn't how these searches normally go. A longtime high school football coach with no college head coaching, coordinator or playcalling experience almost never gets to make the leap to the big job.