The No. 7 Texas Tech Red Raiders had already punched their ticket to the Big 12 Championship Game, but they weren’t interested in coasting. Instead, they delivered one of the program’s most dominant performances in decades, blanking West Virginia 49–0 on Saturday to close out the regular season at 11–1.

With Arizona State’s loss to Arizona securing their championship berth the night before, Texas Tech arrived in Morgantown with something bigger in mind: strengthening its case to host a first-round College Football Playoff game. Mission accomplished.

Behren Morton, battling a nagging leg injury that had him in a boot during the bye week, looked fully in control from the opening snap. He threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns on 25-of-32 passing, hitting Caleb Douglas for 19- and 4-yard scores and Cameron Dickey for another. Douglas torched the Mountaineers’ secondary for 127 yards on five receptions.

And then there was linebacker Jacob Rodriguez — again. After scoring a rushing touchdown two weeks ago and returning a fumble 69 yards earlier this season, Rodriguez found the end zone offensively for the second straight game, taking a direct snap out of the wildcat for a 1-yard touchdown on Texas Tech’s opening possession. The converted quarterback even attempted a pass from the WVU 1 late in the first half, though it was intercepted in the back of the end zone.

Texas Tech scored touchdowns on four of its first five drives and never looked back, leading 28–0 at halftime and letting the defense squeeze the life out of the Mountaineers after the break.

West Virginia, starting its fourth quarterback of the season due to injuries, never found its footing. Freshman Scotty Fox Jr. managed little before being replaced by Max Brown, whose first completion was immediately followed by a 67-yard interception return from Amier Boyd. That turnover set up the first of two touchdown grabs from Micah Hudson, this time via backup quarterback Lloyd Jones III.

The Mountaineers didn’t pick up a first down until midway through the second quarter and finished with just 180 total yards — only 37 of them on the ground.

Texas Tech now heads to Arlington for its first Big 12 Championship Game appearance, facing No. 11 BYU in a rematch of a 29–7 Red Raiders win earlier this month. West Virginia’s season ends at 4–8, and the Mountaineers will open the 2026 campaign at home against Coastal Carolina.

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