Paramount+ Orders Texas Tech Football Docuseries
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- Paramount+ is developing a four-episode untitled docuseries on Texas Tech football, eyeing a premiere timed to the 2026 fall season, with production by Skydance Sports and Second Wind Creative and Micah Brown as director and showrunner.
- Texas Tech won the Big 12 Championship Game in December for the first time in school history and finished ranked in the national Top 10, but lost to Oregon 23-0 in the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
- Brendan Sorsby, a transferring senior quarterback, was ruled ineligible after losing a legal battle; the source says he checked himself into rehab in late April for a gambling addiction.
- Sorsby placed tens of thousands of dollars in bets during his four-year NCAA career, including dozens of wagers on his own team's games while at Indiana University, according to the source.
- Skydance Sports' Greg Groggel called the offseason 'landscape-altering,' while Paramount+'s Jane Wiseman framed the series as giving Texas Tech's fanbase 'an unprecedented look' at program building.
- Production on the docuseries began in January, predating the Sorsby gambling revelations and ineligibility ruling.
Why it matters: The docuseries embeds Paramount+ directly inside a real-time NCAA gambling scandal — Sorsby's ineligibility ruling and documented betting on his own team's games — giving the streamer a built-in controversy narrative ahead of the 2026 season, while Skydance Sports frames it as a 'landscape-altering' moment in college football.
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