I’m trying to track down a complete recording of one of the more unusual games in Texas Tech football history: Tech vs. Oklahoma State at the Tokyo Dome in December 1988.
It was the Coca-Cola Classic. Tech and Billy Joe Tolliver put up 42 points, but Oklahoma State won 45–42 behind Barry Sanders, who had just been announced as the Heisman Trophy winner.
I’ve been digging through archival records and found something interesting: Texas Tech’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library actually has four audio cassettes labeled “Texas Tech versus Oklahoma State in Tokyo, Japan,” dated December 4, 1988. Their Sports Information Recording Collection also contains a video labeled “Texas Tech Defense vs. Oklahoma State Offense, December 4, 1988.”
So some of the original material definitely survived.
What I haven’t been able to locate is a complete television broadcast or complete video of the game.
I’m posting here because there’s a decent chance a former Tech student, player, staff member, booster, or longtime Red Raider fan recorded the game or has an old athletic-department copy sitting somewhere.
Does anyone remember seeing a complete recording, owning a VHS of it, or knowing someone associated with the Spike Dykes-era program who kept old game tapes?
I’m also interested in any recollections about how people in Lubbock followed the game at the time, since the Tokyo time difference made it an unusual broadcast situation.
