Countdown to Kickoff: 20 Days
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Texas Tech's 2016 football season will begin in exactly 20 days with a Sept. 3 kickoff against Stephen F. Austin.
Today, we continue our Countdown to Kickoff series with a notable way the number 20 relates to Red Raider football.
20: Red Raider great Lloyd Hill caught 20 TD passes in his career at Texas Tech.
Texas Tech great Lloyd Hill may not have played in the program's high-flying Air Raid era, but his numbers still pepper the Red Raider record book.
From 1990-93, Hill put up big numbers on the South Plains. He set the program's single-game receiving yards record in 1992 with a 222-yard explosion against Wyoming. That season, as a junior, Hill earned first-team All-American honors and set program records with 1,261 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns.
Perhaps most impressively, the 3,059 receiving yards Hill racked up as a Red Raider still ranks as the fourth-best career mark in program history, behind only Wes Welker, Michael Crabtree and Jakeem Grant.
Tomorrow: 19 - We look at Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury.