The 2010 season marked a new era for Texas Tech football. It was the beginning of Tommy Tuberville's tenure roaming the sidelines in Lubbock, bringing in Neal Brown from Troy with him to try and keep the program's Air Raid offense humming along through the transition.

Things certainly didn't go as planned early on in Big 12 play, however. The Red Raiders scored just 14 points in a loss to Texas at home to open conference play before suffering an embarrassing loss to Iowa State in Ames where the Cyclones ran all over the Texas Tech defense and scored 52 points.

Sitting at 3-2, the Red Raiders had a 4-1 Baylor team up next on the docket, the two teams facing off in what would be the only contest of their neutral site series to be played in the Cotton Bowl.

What followed turned out to be one of the wildest Big 12 games in recent memory, a back and forth shootout with some wacky turns and weird plays.

The first of these weird occurrences was a botched surprise onside by Texas Tech in the first quarter returned by Baylor's Terrance Ganaway for a touchdown that gave the Bears a 14-7 lead.

Other weirdness would ensue on the next drive where Taylor Potts rushed on a quarterback keeper for 43 yards before the Red Raiders tied things up at 14 all.

The shooutout was on at that point, and Texas Tech went into halftime leading the Bears 35-28. The Red Raiders then went on to score the first 10 points of the third quarter, up 45-28 with 7:36 left in the quarter and seemingly ready to break away on a day when they'd only punted once and seemed to be firing away on all cylinders.

Then, the Texas Tech offense went cold. Potts threw an interception on the next drive, and the Red Raider offense wouldn't score again on the day.

Instead, it became a matter of holding on against Robert Griffin and the BU attack, which scored a touchdown at the beginning of the fourth quarter to cut the Red Raiders' lead to 45-38.

Both teams punted it back and forth for the remainder of the game, and Baylor earned one final chance to tie up the game with 57 seconds left and the ball at the BU 34-yard line.

Griffin completed a 19-yard pass to Krys Buerck across the 50 to the 47-yard line with 18 seconds left, and Red Raider fans in the stands became a bit uneasy.

Time management would be the downfall of the Bears on that day, however. Griffin scrambled around in the pocket, wasting precious seconds before completing an impressive 16-yard pass to Josh Gordon down the right sideline with six or seven seconds left.

However, Gordon refused to go down, attempting to fight through tackles for more yards and wasting away the remainder of the clock in the process.

Baylor failed to earn their one good shot at the endzone, and Texas Tech escaped Dallas with a 45-38 win to avoid starting 0-3 in conference play for the first time in two decades.