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Cameron Dickey has career night in Texas Tech football win over Kansas
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The Texas Tech football team split the focus of the run game almost equally between Cameron Dickey and J'Koby Williams through the first five games of the season, each with a shade more than 300 yards on close to the same number of attempts.
Williams, dealing with a tweaked ankle, got a lighter workload this past week in practice, so it was up to Dickey to deliver on homecoming against Kansas .
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Deliver he did.
The Austin Crockett graduate carried 21 times for 263 yards and two touchdowns as the Red Raiders beat the Jayhawks 42-17 on Saturday, Oct. 11, in front a packed house at Jones AT&T Stadium. The 263-yard performance ranks fifth on the Tech single-game list. Byron Hanspard set the record with 287 yards against Baylor in 1996.
"The boys make it easy," Dickey said, referring to his offensive linemen. "Had a great night tonight. Put it all on them."
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The 5-foot-10, 215-pound sophomore has turned into a big-play threat the past two weeks. Against Houston, he took a mid-range pass over the middle and turned it into a 69-yard touchdown. On Saturday, his touchdown runs covered 71 and 55 yards, and he was virtually untouched on both.
Tech coach Joey McGuire said a media member could have run through the hole the line cleared for Dickey's first touchdown.
"He was telling the truth on that one," Dickey said. "That one was wide open. O-line did a great job. Split like the Red Sea. Just off to the races."
On Dickey's second touchdown, right tackle Jacob Ponton pulled to the left edge, and tight end Terrance Carter Jr. sealed the other side. They opened the lane.
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The Red Raiders finished with 372 yards rushing, most against a Big 12 opponent since 1996, and 505 yards total offense.
Central Florida rushed for 199 yards in Kansas ' 27-20 victory the week before, so McGuire said the Red Raiders wanted to test the Jayhawks' run defense.
"I think coach (Mack) Leftwich and coach Clay (McGuire) had a great game plan going into this," center Sheridan Wilson said. "The main thing was communication. We knew that Kansas liked to stem a lot, change fronts. I think that was lacking in games prior, so I think our communication was much better, and we were able to create big holes like that."
Texas Tech's Cameron Dickey celebrates his touchdown against Kansas during a Big 12 Conference football game, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock.
Dickey increased his season totals to 92 carries for 591 yards and eight touchdowns rushing. On that pace, he'd finish the regular season with 1,182 yards and 16 TDs.
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Not bad for an unheralded signee from December 2023.
"Man, he's special," McGuire said. "We worked our butts off to get him here. We were afraid a couple of other schools were going to jump in late. His mom and dad assured us that he was going to be a Red Raider. We're really glad that he is."
Recently, McGuire compared Dickey to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Fine with Dickey.
Asked this past week which Ninja Turtle he best embodies, Dickey said, "If I was one for sure, I'd probably be Raphael. He's a tough guy."
Williams carried nine times for 48 yards. Tech improved to 6-0 this season, including 3-0 in the Big 12. The Red Raiders face Arizona State (4-2, 2-1) at 3 p.m. CDT Saturday, Oct. 18 in Tempe, Arizona.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Cameron Dickey has career night in Texas Tech football win over Kansas
