The Big 12’s Week 10 honor roll read like a mixtape … explosive tracks on offense, strip-sack riffs on defense, and some monster trench play that flipped games.

Arizona State’s Jeff Sims and Arizona’s Noah Fifita split Offensive Player of the Week, and for good reason. Sims authored a throwback, do-everything performance in a 24-19 win at Iowa State, becoming the first Big 12 QB since Vince Young in the 2006 Rose Bowl to pass for 175-plus yards and rush for 200-plus.

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He piled up 405 total yards and three touchdowns, with an 88-yard house call, the second-longest QB run in ASU history and the program’s longest run by any Sun Devil since 2020. Fifita needed only 19 attempts to detonate Colorado, stacking 213 yards with four touchdowns (strikes of 57 and 60) and zero turnovers. He’s now one of just six FBS quarterbacks this season with three separate four-TD passing games.

On defense, West Virginia’s Fred Perry and Texas Tech’s Jacob Rodriguez owned the moments that matter. Perry racked up 13 tackles (nine solo) and a sack in a 45–35 upset at then-No. 22 Houston, spearheading a front that held the Cougars to 82 rushing yards and helped force four turnovers. Rodriguez forced two fumbles, both converted into Red Raider touchdowns, among his five tackles in a 43-20 road beatdown of K-State. He’s up to a national-best seven forced fumbles and just the fourth Big 12 player ever to hit that number in a season.

Special teams swung games, too. Utah freshman returner Mana Carvalho ripped off three punt returns for 94 yards, including a 75-yard TD, the Utes’ first punt-return score since 2021 and the first by a Utah freshman since 2015, and the Big 12’s first PR TD of 2025. Texas Tech kicker Stone Harrington logged 13 points and drilled three field goals (two from 29, one from 55).

He’s now the first Red Raider with multiple 55-plus yarders in a season, adding to a 58-yarder at Utah; only three other FBS kickers share that club this year.

West Virginia’s Scotty Fox Jr. took Freshman of the Week after guiding WVU to its first road win over a ranked team since 2018. The Mentor, Ohio product threw for 157, ran for 65, and totaled three touchdowns, becoming the first freshman QB in school history to find the end zone three times in a game and the first WVU true frosh since 1952 to rush for two scores in a single outing.

The big boys earned their flowers. Arizona State captured Offensive Line of the Week by paving the way for 467 total yards, 290 on the ground, and zero sacks allowed while down starting QB Sam Leavitt and WR Jordyn Tyson.

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Utah took Defensive Line of the Week after caging then-No. 17 Cincinnati: batted passes, constant heat, a fumble recovery, and a stifling 33.3% completion rate (11-for-33), the Utes’ best mark in eight seasons against a QB with 30-plus attempts. Cincinnati never reached the end zone on a sustained drive.

Roll call for Week 10:
• Offensive Players: Noah Fifita (Arizona), Jeff Sims (Arizona State)
• Defensive Players: Fred Perry (West Virginia), Jacob Rodriguez (Texas Tech)
• Special Teams: Mana Carvalho (Utah), Stone Harrington (Texas Tech)
• Freshman: Scotty Fox Jr. (West Virginia)
• O-Line of the Week: Arizona State
• D-Line of the Week: Utah

If November is about identities hardening, Week 10 said this: Sims is a problem in space, Fifita is ruthlessly efficient, WVU and Tech have tone-setters on D, and Utah owns the line of scrimmage. Buckle up, the stretch run is here.