Between an
<font color="#0069AA">over-excited bell-ringer</font>, half of the student section whispering "Why so serious?" and
<font color="#0069AA">multiple stormings of the field</font>, Texas Tech fans got about as rowdy Saturday night as 51,000 people can without reenacting the watering hole scene from
2001: A Space Odyssey or trampling on one another's heads. It was probably the biggest, most intense three hours in campus history.</p>
But not everyone in Lubbock was overcome with the pageantry: Tech officials said Sunday that 500 latecomers trying to score tickets around the stadium -- including at least one Raider player trying to get a seat for a friend -- missed out on the fun when they were
<font color="#0069AA">taken in by counterfeit tickets</font>:</p>
"They got robbed is what it was," said Dave Welsh, Tech assistant athletic director for ticket operations. "These (counterfeiters), I think they hit the big-time bowl games and the Super Bowl and so forth. They look just like our regular season-ticket stock, but the bar codes obviously aren't going to match. It was heartbreaking seeing all these people get ripped off."</p>