Game Preview: West Virginia

LUBBOCK, Texas – Texas Tech will host its annual Homecoming game Saturday morning when the Red Raiders battle West Virginia in an 11 a.m. kickoff inside Jones AT&T Stadium. The game will air nationally on FOX Sports 1 with Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt calling the action and Shannon Spake reporting from the sidelines.

The game can also be heard nationally on the Texas Tech Sports Network with Brian Jensen calling the action alongside analyst John Harris, sideline reporter Chris Level and engineer Steve Pitts. The radio broadcast can be heard nationally on XM (Channel 81) and Sirius Radio (Channel 81) as well as the TuneIn app.

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The Red Raiders are coming off a 44-38 setback last Saturday at K-State that dropped Texas Tech to 1-1 so far in Big 12 play. Tech recorded over 250 yards of total offense more than the Wildcats, who capitalized on a pick-six interception and a kickoff returned for a touchdown in the win.
Texas Tech will be hosting West Virginia on Homecoming weekend where the Red Raiders hold a 54-29-3 all-time record with wins in each of the last four seasons. Tech defeated Iowa State, 66-31, in its Homecoming game a year ago.
This will be just the sixth all-time meeting between Texas Tech and West Virginia and the fifth since the Mountaineers joined the Big 12 Conference prior to the 2012 season. The Red Raiders are 2-3 all-time against West Virginia after falling to the Mountaineers, 31-26, last year in Morgantown.
Texas Tech will be looking to recreate the same performance the Red Raiders found the last time a ranked West Virginia team arrived in Lubbock. The Red Raiders dropped the then-No. 4 Mountaineers, 49-14, in 2012 in what was the first meeting between the two schools after West Virginia joined the Big 12.
The Red Raiders enter Saturday's contest having scored at least 50 points in each of their last nine games inside Jones AT&T Stadium. It is the longest streak in NCAA history as Texas Tech snapped the previous record of eight-straight games that was set by Yale from 1887-1888.
Through two games in Big 12 play, the Texas Tech defense has allowed just 315.5 yards per game which ranks second in the league. The Red Raiders limited Kansas to only 296 yards of total offense - the fewest for a Big 12 opponent since facing Iowa State in 2012 - before Kansas State was held to 335 yards last weekend in Manhattan.
The Red Raiders boast one of the nation's top offenses through the first six weeks of the season as Texas Tech leads the country in passing offense (544.0 yards per game) and ranks second in both scoring offense (55.2 points per game) and total offense (649.8 yards per game).
In 43 games as head coach, Kliff Kingsbury has guided the Red Raider offense to at least 500 yards of total offense 27 times during his tenure, including all four games this season. Tech is averaging 649.8 yards of total offense this season.

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