| Year: | 1996 |
| Team: | Texas Tech Red Raiders |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Big 12 Conference |
| Division: | South Division |
| Short Conf: | Big 12 |
| Record: | 7–5 |
| Conf Record: | 5–3 |
| Head Coach: | Spike Dykes |
| Hc Year: | 10th |
| Off Coach: | Rick Dykes |
| Oc Year: | 1st |
| Off Scheme: | Spread |
| Def Coach: | John Goodner |
| Dc Year: | 2nd |
| Def Scheme: | 4–2–5/4–4 hybrid |
| Stadium: | Jones Stadium |
| Bowl: | Alamo Bowl |
| Bowl Result: | L 0–27 vs. Iowa |
The 1996 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University as a member of the newly formed Big 12 Conference during the 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their tenth season under head coach Spike Dykes, the Red Raiders compiled a 7–5 record (5–3 against Big 12 opponents), finished in second place in Southern Division of the Big 12, outscored opponents by a combined total of 323 to 232, and lost to Iowa in the 1996 Alamo Bowl.[1] The team played its home games at Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.
See also: 1996 Kansas State Wildcats football team.
See also: 1996 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team.
See also: 1996 Georgia Bulldogs football team.
See also: 1996 Baylor Bears football team and Baylor–Texas Tech football rivalry.
See also: 1996 Kansas Jayhawks football team.
See also: 1996 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team.
See also: 1996 Texas Longhorns football team and Texas–Texas Tech football rivalry.
See also: 1996 Oklahoma Sooners football team.
See also: 1996 Iowa Hawkeyes football team and 1996 Alamo Bowl.