After a crackdown by the Big 12, Texas Tech will flatten its tortilla-tossing tradition.

Red Raiders athletic director Kirby Hocutt joined head coach Joey McGuire during a Monday news conference to announce that the university is "no longer going to encourage nor permit the throwing of tortillas" at the opening kickoff of their football games.

Texas Tech fans have tossed tortillas in the crowd at Jones AT&T Stadium since the 1990s.

In August, Big 12 ADs voted 15-1 to assess a 15-yard penalty after two warnings for objects being thrown on the field, with Hocutt the lone dissenter. After the vote, he tweeted, "the rules can change. But our tradition will not" and suggested a new tradition of launching tortillas for the opening kickoff.

But after a raucous scene in Lubbock during the Re

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