No. 5 Tech travels to WVU with Big 12 title-game berth at stake

#5 TEXAS TECH at WEST VIRGINIA
Morgantown, W. Va. | Milan Puskar Stadium (60,000)
Nov. 29, 2025
ESPN | 11 a.m. CST / 12 p.m. EST (local)

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LUBBOCK, Texas – No. 5 Texas Tech (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) will look to secure its spot in the Edward Jones Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday at 11 a.m., on the final weekend of the regular season, when traveling to face West Virginia (4-7, 2-6 Big 12) at Milan Puskar Stadium. Texas Tech heads to Morgantown on a four-game winning streak, and off its open date, same as the Mountaineers. The Red Raiders claimed their seventh 10-win season in program history – its first since 2008 – last time out, and will try to match the single-season program record for wins in a single season, all while locking in their first-ever trip to the Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday with a win.

The television broadcast will feature play-by-play commentator Roy Philpott and analyst Sam Acho in the booth, while Taylor Davis will be reporting from the sideline. The broadcast can be accessed from any desktop or laptop computer, a personal cellular device, and television streaming services using the ESPN app.

Texas Tech Sports Network will also broadcast the game over 46 affiliates throughout the state of Texas and New Mexico, as Brian Jensen will have the call alongside analyst John Harris and sideline reporter Chris Level. The radio broadcast can also be heard on SiriusXM channel 85, as well as on the Varsity app.

EDWARD JONES BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP TIEBREAKERS

Heading into Week 14, only Arizona State, BYU, Texas Tech and Utah can clinch a berth in the 2025 Edward Jones Big 12 Football Championship (via Big12Sports.com).
- Texas Tech clinches with a win over West Virginia.
  - OR Arizona State Loss on Friday night.
- BYU clinches with a win over UCF.
  - OR Arizona State Loss.
  - OR BYU loss to UCF + Texas Tech loss AND ASU win AND Utah win.
- Arizona State clinches with a win over Arizona + Texas Tech Loss AND Utah Loss AND BYU win
  - OR Arizona State clinches with a win over Arizona + BYU Loss AND Utah Loss.
  - OR Arizona State clinches with a win over Arizona + Texas Tech Loss AND BYU Loss AND UTAH win.
- Utah clinches with a win over Kansas + TTU Loss AND ASU Win AND BYU win.

THE NATION'S MOST DOMINANT TEAM

Texas Tech is the only team in the country with 10 or more wins by 20 or more points this season. In fact, only Ohio State (8) and Utah (8) have more wins by 20 or more points for the entire season than Texas Tech does for wins during Big 12 play, as the Red Raiders have tied their single-season record for conference wins, with each victory coming by 20 points.
Texas Tech currently leads the nation with an average margin of victory of 33.8 points, which is now ahead of a Utah program (31.8) that was downed by the Red Raiders, 34-10, to start Big 12 play.

GET HIM TO NYC: J-ROD FOR HEISMAN

They say Heisman contenders play their best in November. If that's so, count Jacob Rodriguez in already meeting that criteria, as he has been responsible for nine takeaways in Big 12 play alone, including five in the past four games.
Rodriguez, who is the only FBS player since 2005 to have at least five forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, and four interceptions in the same season, is the driving force behind one of the nation's top defenses as the Red Raiders are tied for second nationally with 25 takeaways and fourth with only 12.3 points allowed a game.

STRENGTH IN TEXAS TECH'S WINS

Texas Tech is one of only three FBS teams currently with multiple wins over teams ranked in the top 15 of last week's CFP poll (on Nov. 18). Texas Tech defeated both teams by 20 or more points, with a 34-10 victory at No. 13 Utah and then a 29-7 victory at home over No. 12 BYU. Texas Tech averaged 23.0 points as its margin of victory in its two top-15 wins, which more than doubles the margin of the other two schools in Texas (10.0) and Alabama (9.5). Of that group, only Alabama and Texas Tech have a top-15 road win to date.
Texas Tech joins Oklahoma and Alabama as the only team ranked in the top 15 of last week's CFP poll with at least three wins over power conference teams with eight or more wins of their own this season (at Utah, at Houston, vs. BYU). Texas Tech and Oklahoma are the only two schools of that group with multiple road wins.

SCHOOL RECORD FOR WINS IN SIGHT NOW

Texas Tech secured the seventh 10-win season in program history against UCF, as the Red Raiders improved to 10-1 overall heading into this weekend's regular-season finale at West Virginia. It is the first 10-win season since 2008 and only the fourth since the Red Raiders joined the Southwest Conference in 1960. In addition to the 2008 campaign, Texas Tech previously finished with at least 10 wins during the 1932, 1938, 1953, 1973 and 1976 seasons
The Red Raiders can match the single-season school record for wins at West Virginia, as the Red Raiders finished 11-1 in both 1953 and 1973, as well as 11-2 in 2008. Texas Tech reached the 11-win mark with a victory in its bowl game during both the 1953 and 1973 seasons, making the 2008 campaign the only time the Red Raiders have recorded 11 regular-season wins.
With the win over the Knights, Joey McGuire became the sixth head coach in program history to lead the Red Raiders to a 10-win season, joining Pete Cawthon (1932, 1938), DeWitt Weaver (1953), Jim Carlen (1973), Steve Sloan (1976) and Mike Leach (2008).

NUMBERS TO KNOW

5: Texas Tech has won five of its last six games following an open date and four of five under Joey McGuire, including a 35-11 victory at Houston earlier this year.
10: Texas Tech's 10 wins by 20 points are easily the most in the FBS. The only Big 12 team to have more such victories in a single season was Oklahoma in 2008 (11).
11: Texas Tech has won its last 11 games Behren Morton has started dating back to the end of the 2024 regular season. The Red Raiders are a perfect 9-0 in games he's started this year.
24: Texas Tech has already set its single-season record with 24 successful field goals this season, which currently leads the FBS. That includes 18 alone from Stone Harrington.
104: Texas Tech has scored 104 points off takeaways this season, the second-highest total in the FBS. The Red Raiders have scored points off turnovers in all but one game.

INSIDE THE SERIES

Texas Tech and West Virginia will meet for the 15th time in history Saturday and the 14th time as Big 12 Conference members in a back-and-forth series that is tied at 7-7 overall. Texas Tech leads the series at 7-6 since West Virginia joined the Big 12 prior to the 2012 season.
The Red Raiders have won five of the past six games in the series, with the lone setback coming in their last trip to Morgantown in 2023. The Mountaineers frustrated Texas Tech's offense on their way to a 20-13 victory that season. The Red Raiders responded with a 52-15 rout in the regular-season finale a year ago, their second-largest win all-time in the series.
Since the Mountaineers joined the Big 12 in 2012, Texas Tech and West Virginia have traditionally played several close games with seven of those 13 decisions determined by one possession and one more by only 11 points. The Red Raiders are 3-4 against West Virginia in one-possession games with wins in two of the last three occurrences.
This will be the fourth time the two schools have faced each other in the month of November, as the Red Raiders are 2-1 in those games historically. Texas Tech has traveled to Morgantown during the final month of the season only once, which came in a 31-26 loss in 2015. Texas Tech and West Virginia also closed the regular season against each other a year ago, with the Red Raiders delivering a 52-15 rout inside Jones AT&T Stadium.
The only other meeting between the two schools outside the Big 12 era came in the 1938 Sun Bowl, where West Virginia edged the Red Raiders, 7-6, in front of 12,000 fans in El Paso. It was the first of now 41 bowl appearances for the Red Raiders, who rank among the top 25 teams all-time in postseason trips.

TEXAS TECH-WEST VIRGINIA CONNECTIONS

Joey McGuire will see one of his former players on the opposing sideline this weekend in West Virginia, inside receivers coach Logan Bradley, who starred at Cedar Hill High School under McGuire. Bradley was a senior wide receiver on Cedar Hill's 2013 state championship team, its second of three titles during McGuire's legendary tenure in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Bradley departed Cedar Hill for Ole Miss, where he was a student assistant coach, earning his bachelor's degree in 2018. He was hired at West Virginia this past offseason after three seasons in various offensive roles at Auburn.
Texas Tech offensive coordinator Mack Leftwich's tenure as a quarterback at UTEP coincided with a five-year stretch where West Virginia safeties coach Gabe Franklin was on the Miners' staff. Franklin was UTEP's cornerbacks coach from 2011-12 before adding responsibility over the entire defensive backs room from 2013-15, a three-year span where Leftwich was a quarterback for the Miners. Leftwich began his coaching career as a student assistant for UTEP in 2016, while Franklin departed that same offseason to accept the safeties job at Boise State.

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