How to Watch & Game Preview: West Virginia vs. No. 5 Texas Tech — TV info, streaming, betting odds and more

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Date: Saturday, November 29, 2025

Kickoff: Noon ET

Location: Milan Puskar Stadium, Morgantown, West Virginia

Broadcast Information

Channel: ESPN

Announcers: Roy Philpott (PBP), Samuel Acho (analyst), and Taylor Davis (sideline)

Streaming: ESPN (provider login required)

Radio: Mountaineer Sports Network from IMG (Radio Affiliates) | SiriusXM Ch. 201 and Streaming Channel 963 | WVU Gameday App (Apple | Android)

Radio Announcers: Tony Caridi (play-by-play), Dwight Wallace (analyst), Jed Drenning (sideline). Andrew Caridi and John Antonik will man the pre and post-game shows.

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Betting Odds

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West Virginia: +23.5 points / +1280 ML
Texas Tech: -23.5 points / -3500 ML
Over/Under: 53.5 total points

(Odds as of 11:30AM ET/November 26, 2025)

Game Preview

Texas Tech comes to Morgantown at 10–1 and ranked fifth in the country, built around a defense that has squeezed the life out of almost every offense they’ve seen. They’re allowing just over 12 points a game and sit at the top of the country in rushing defense. Jacob Rodriguez leads the Red Raiders with 100 tackles and seven forced fumbles. David Bailey has been one of the most disruptive edge players in college football, leading the nation with 12.5 sacks on the year. Teams haven’t run on them. Utah needed more than 30 carries to get to 101 yards. BYU never got anything started. A quarterback still holds the highest individual rushing total against them. With that front and a secondary that holds up long enough for pressure to get there, most opponents end up fighting through long-yardage downs all afternoon.

Their offense hasn’t had to carry them, but it’s been steady. Cameron Dickey is nearing a thousand yards and J’Koby Williams has been a reliable second option, with the two combining for 18 of the Red Raiders’ 27 touchdowns. Behren Morton has played relatively mistake-free football with 17 touchdowns to four interceptions, and spreads the ball around to several receivers, with Caleb Douglas and Reggie Virgil at the top of the group. Their offense is built to stay on schedule and avoid mistakes, not to chase shootouts. Their win over BYU showed that clearly, as the Red Raiders settled for five field goals and the game still ended with a three-touchdown score because BYU never found any rhythm.

West Virginia enters at 4–7 after a season spent shuffling lineups and dealing with one hit after another. Losing Diore Hubbard takes another option out of an already thin running back room, and the workload now falls to Cyncir Bowers, Curtis Jones Jr., and whoever else can give them snaps. The offensive line has moved parts all year. WVU was in position to pull off the upset at Arizona State, but the missed red-zone chances and stalled drives were the difference.

The added layer this week is what Texas Tech is trying to hold onto. A win puts them in the Big 12 Championship Game. They also get in if Arizona State loses Friday night. But if Arizona State wins and a couple other results fall a certain way, a loss in Morgantown makes things far more complicated — for the Big 12 standings and for the playoff conversation. Texas Tech would still have a path to Dallas, but they wouldn’t fully control it.

For WVU, that’s where the opportunity is. It’s senior day, it’s the last chance for this group to put something on film they feel good about, and it’s a chance to derail a team destined for the College Football Playoff. WVU doesn’t need a track meet. They’ll need to stay ahead of the sticks and force the kind of mistakes Tech hasn’t made often. If they can do that, the afternoon looks different.

By the Numbers

Category	West Virginia	Texas Tech
Record	4-7 (2-6 Big 12)	10.1 (7-1 Big 12)
Points/Game	23.7	42.6
Total Offense	364.9	481.6
Rushing Offense	171.8	194.1
Passing Offense	193.1	287.5
Turnovers Lost	16	12
Turnovers Gained	18	25
3rd Down %	31%	49.4%
Red Zone Efficiency	84.4%	88.5%
Leading Rusher	Diore Hubbard – 335 yds, 4 TD	Cameron Dickey – 944 yds, 13 TD
Leading Passer	Scotty Fox – 1178 yds, 7 TD, 5 INT	Behren Morton – 2,118 yds, 17 TD, 4 INT
Leading Receiver	Cam Vaughn – 33 rec, 541 yds, 4 TD	Caleb Douglas – 48 rec, 696 yds, 5 TD

Series History

The all-time series is tied 7–7. Texas Tech won last year’s meeting 52–15 in Lubbock, while West Virginia won the 2023 matchup in Morgantown. The programs first met in the 1937 Sun Bowl, a 7–6 WVU win. Texas Tech has taken four of the last five.

Storylines to Watch

West Virginia goes into this one with real questions about how they’ll handle the run game. They’re down another back, and the carries now fall to Cyncir Bowers and Curtis Jones Jr. Jones started the year on defense and only started taking snaps at running back this month, so how comfortable he looks with a heavier workload is something worth watching. Bowers has given them a spark in spots, and they’ll need that again.

The offensive line is another piece to watch. The group hasn’t settled the way the staff hoped, and some of the combinations that worked earlier in the year stopped working as the schedule got tougher.

It’s also senior day for a huge class. There are more than 40 of them, and the staff has talked about it all week. Whatever the record is, this is their last home game, and the staff has made it pretty clear they want this group to have something positive to walk off with.

Texas Tech brings in a different kind of storyline. They’ve hit on almost everything they aimed for this season, from the portal work to the balance on offense to the way their defense controls games. Their only loss was a late two-minute drive at Arizona State, and everything else has looked pretty similar week to week. They’re sitting in a good spot for the Big 12 title game, but depending on what happens Saturday around the league, a loss here could cause them some stress.

And the spread is hard to ignore, even if you’re not the gambling type. WVU hasn’t been this big of a home underdog in more than twenty years, which says plenty about the gap between these two programs and the challenge the Mountaineers are up against.

Prediction

Texas Tech has been tough all year, and their defense has controlled almost every matchup they’ve seen. West Virginia has shown improvement since the UCF loss, but the injuries, depth issues, and constant lineup changes make this a difficult spot for the Mountaineers. WVU will need the kind of clean, low-mistake game they haven’t been really been able to put together much this season, and the Red Raiders usually don’t give opponents many openings to work with.

West Virginia 13, Texas Tech 31

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