STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Eric Morris never won a game as a player or offensive coordinator for Texas Tech at Boone Pickens Stadium, now home for the first-year Oklahoma State coach whose alma mater is coming to town for a significant Big 12 game late Saturday night. “Really good memories when I played ’em at home,” Morris said this week. “Really bad memories when I came to Boone Pickens Stadium.”What he hopes for now is some lasting memories for the resurgent Cowboys (6-3, 4-2 Big 12, No. 25 CFP). There should be a raucous atmosphere when they pretty much have to win for a realistic chance to get to the Big 12 championship game — after not winning a single league game the past two seasons. “This is a core memory that they’ll have for the rest of their life, so I’m excited for them,” Morris said.Morris, 4-0 at Boone Pickens Stadium as head coach including his opener over then-No. 6 Oregon, lost twice there as offensive coordinator for the Red Raiders and was also 0-2 as a player He caught a 12-yard touchdown pass from Graham Harrell in 2007, though Oklahoma State won 49-45 in a game that featured the likes of Michael Crabtree, Danny Amendola and Dez Bryant.Another high-scoring game is certainly possibleNo. 10 Texas Tech (8-1, 5-1, No. 12 CFP) is coming off a 53-48 home win over West Virginia when Thomas Castellanos threw five touchdowns in a game that ended after midnight local time. After winning the highest-scoring game in the Big 12 this season, the Red Raiders now go to Stillwater to play in that same late-night ESPN broadcast window. Oklahoma State, the Big 12 leader with 44 points and 534 total yards per game, is coming off a 66-28 win at Kansas State when Drew Mestemaker threw four TDs and ran for another score. That came a week after a 51-49 loss at Iowa State on a game-ending field goal. While defending Big 12 champion Texas Tech is alone in second place in the league standings behind No. 2 Utah (9-0, 6-0, No. 2 CFP), Oklahoma State is one of four teams with two league losses. “The objective anytime we touch the ball is we want to score the football,” Morris said. “You do that in a lot of different ways and I don’t think either one of these teams is one-dimensional right now, which I think causes some issues. “But some of these games get weird and tricky,” he said. “And it goes the opposite way and it’s a low-scoring game, right? I’ve been in those before, too. It’ll be fun.”During his senior season for the Red Raiders in 2008, Morris matched his career high with 10 catches for 97 yards and a touchdown against Oklahoma State in a game at Lubbock. Morris and Mestemaker have been in meaningful November games together beforeMestemaker came with Morris from North Texas, which last season made the American Conference championship game before a loss to Tulane that kept them out of the 12-team College Football Playoff. Now they are playing a meaningful November game in the Big 12.“It’s already a big-
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