Doege completed 14 of 28 passes for 159 yards and one touchdown in the Kansas game. Doege also threw for 68 yards and a touchdown in the fourth quarter of Tech's 66–14 win over Kansas State in 2009. Doege became Texas Tech's starting quarterback in 2011. He set a Division I (NCAA) record for the highest completion percentage of quarterbacks throwing 40 or more completions in a game, completing 40-of-44 passes (90.9%) during the September 17, 2011 game against the New Mexico Lobos. The completion record was previously held by Kliff Kingsbury, another Texas Tech quarterback, who completed 49-of-59 for an 83% completion percentage. Doege also tied the school record set by Taylor Potts for consecutive pass completions by completing 15 in a row during the same game. For his performance at the New Mexico game, he was named co-Big 12 offensive player of the week and AT&T ESPN All-America Player of the Week. Doege threw for a career-high 461 yards in a 41–34 loss to Kansas State on October 15, 2011. One week after the loss to Kansas State, Doege led the Red Raiders to a 41–38 upset victory over no. 3 Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Doege completed 33 of 52 passes for 441 yards and four touchdowns against Oklahoma. For his performance, he earned recognition as the Walter Camp Football Foundation National Offensive Player of the Week and the Rivals.com National Player of the Week. Additionally, he was again named the AT&T ESPN All-America Player of the Week, his second time to be so honored during the 2011 season. Offensive coordinator Neal Brown was also named National Coordinator of the Week by Rivals. Doege finished the 2011 season with 398 of 581 completions for 4,004 yards and 28 touchdowns. He ranked eighth among all NCAA FBS quarterbacks in passing yardage. Entering his senior year for the 2012 football season, he was named to the preseason watch list for five major college football awards: the Davey O'Brien Award, the Walter Camp Award, the Manning Award, the Maxwell Award, and the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. In the first three games of the 2012 season, Doege led Tech to victories over the Northwestern State Demons, Texas State Bobcats, and New Mexico Lobos. In those three nonconference games, Doege completed 74.3% of his passes for 858 yards and 12 touchdowns (the most in the NCAA's FBS division after the first three games).