2008 | Senior Season

• Finalist for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award, Maxwell Award and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award
• Holds school marks in career TD passes (130) and career TDs responsible for (142)
• Needs two TD passes to pass former Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan as the NCAA all-time leader
• Ranks second all-time on the NCAA passing yardage list with 15,429 yards
• Big 12 Conference and national leader in passing yards per game (395.6) and second in total offense (390.8)

Game Highlights:

• Baylor
  • Completed 40-of-51 passes for 309 yards and two touchdowns
  • Led Texas Tech to the 35-28 win after trailing 28-14 in the third quarter
  • Played the entire second half with nine breaks in his non-throwing hand
• Oklahoma
  • Connected on 33-of-55 passes for 361 yards and three touchdowns against the Sooners
• OSU
  • Finished with an 80 percent completion rate on 40-of-50 passes; threw six touchdown strikes
  • AT&T All-America Player of the Week nominee
• UT
  • Completed 36-of-53 passes for 474 yards and two touchdowns in Tech’s win over then-No. 1 Texas
  • Hit wide receiver Michael Crabtree for the game-winning score on a 28-yard connection with one second remaining in the game
• Kansas
  • Named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week and Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week after performance against Kansas
  • Completed 34-of-42 passes for 386 yards and five touchdowns
  • Rushed for another score
• Texas A&M
  • Torched the Aggies for 450 yards and three touchdowns on 44-of-56 passing
  • Rushed for two more scores and accounted for five TDs on the day
• Nebraska
  • Solid outing against Nebraska, leading the Red Raiders to scores on six of nine drives in the game
  • Completed 80 percent of his passes (20-of-25) and threw for 284 yards and two touchdowns; also rushed for another score
• Kansas State
  • Torched the Wildcats for 454 yards and six touchdowns on 38-of-51 passing; also rushed for another score
  • Passed Kliff Kingsbury on the Tech career passing yardage list and holds the record with 12,709 yards
  • Nominated by AT&T for its All-America Player of the Week honor, which he has received once already this season
• Massachusetts
  • Completed 27-of-34 passes for 322 yards and four touchdowns in the win over
• SMU
  • Threw five TD passes in the win over; Completed 31-of-48 passes for 418 yards
• Nevada
  • Struggled with 19-of-46 passing for 297 yards, but sparked the offense with an 82-yard touchdown pass to Michael Crabtree early in the fourth quarter
• Eastern Washington
  • Completed 43-of-58 passes for 536 yards and two touchdowns

2007 | Junior Season

• Konica Minolta Gator Bowl MVP
• Named the Sammy Baugh Trophy winner by The Touchdown Club of Columbus
• All-Big 12 Conference Second Team
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Earned bowl MVP honors after orchestrated a second straight come back for a bowl win
• The nation’s leading passer, he completed 47 of his school-record 72 attempts for 420 yards and two touchdowns against No. 3-ranked Oklahoma
• Threw for more than 400 yards in all but two games
• Torched the Texas defense for the second consecutive season, racking up 466 yards and five touchdowns on 36-of-48 attempts in Austin
• Completed 36-of-43 attempts for 425 yards and four touchdowns against Iowa State;83.7% completion rate against the Cyclones set a new school record, besting the mark of 83.1% set by Kliff Kingsbury at Texas A&M in 2002

2006 | Sophomore Season

• Best sophomore season in Texas Tech history with 4,555 passing yards and 38 touchdowns; third-best in NCAA history
• Already ranked among the top five on several career passing lists at Texas Tech
• Nine 300-yard passing games
• Led the nation in completions with 412 and ranked second in passing yards
• 412 completions are the fourth-best single-season total in school history and he owns the fourth-highest single-season passing yardage mark by a Tech quarterback
• Boasted a 38:11 touchdown to interception ratio
• Led the Big 12 conference in passing, passing touchdowns and total offense
• Engineered an improbable come-from-behind win over Minnesota in the Insight Bowl; Tech rallied late, outscoring the Gophers 31-0 in the final 22 minutes of the game to force overtime
• Named Insight Bowl Offensive MVP after throwing  for 445 yards on 36-of-55 passing

Early Years | Ennis High School, Ennis, TX

• Four-star recruit (Rivals.com)
• Gatorade Texas Player of the Year
• EA Sports All-America Team
• Hodge 150 (ESPN)
• No. 7 pro-style quarterback in the nation (Rivals.com)
• No. 15 overall prospect in Texas (Texas Insider Top 100)
• No. 15 quarteback in the nation (SuperPrep.com)
• No. 17 quarterback in the nation (CollegeFootballNews.com)
• No. 24 Midlands Sweet 66 (Rivals.com)
• No. 24 Texas Top 100 (Rivals.com)
• No. 30 overall prospect in the nation (Big 12 Insider Top 100)
• National Top 100 (Max Emfinger Recruiting)
• No. 8 area prospect (Dallas Morning News)
• No. 9 prospect in Texas (Dallas Morning News)
• Offensive Athlete of the Year (Dallas Morning News)
• National Top 100 (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• State Top 100 (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• Two-Time Class 4A Offensive Player of the Year (Associated Press)
• Two-time all-state selection and three-time all-district pick
• Two-year District 16-4A MVP
• Passed for 4,825 yards and 67 touchdowns senior season; completed 244-of-373 pass attempts ; led Ennis to undefeated regular season and 53.8 points per game
• Holds state record for single-season passing touchdowns (54)
• Passed for 573 yards in win over Waxahachie, the third-best single-game total in state history
• All-America selection (PrepStar)
• State’s all-time leading passer with 12,532 yards and 167 touchdowns
• Ranked nationally in single-season touchdowns (second), career touchdowns (third) and career passing yards (sixth)
• Also recruited by Georgia, N.C. State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Purdue, Wisconsin and Kansas State