Texas Tech set the pace in the Big 12’s Week 11 football awards, claiming four honors and the Defensive Line of the Week as the Red Raiders and Iowa State joined Arizona, UCF, and West Virginia among this week’s standouts.
Arizona running back Quincy Craig and Texas Tech’s Cameron Dickey split Offensive Player of the Week after clutch, workmanlike efforts in statement wins. Craig needed only five touches to change Arizona’s 24-20 game against Kansas, scoring twice, including the 24-yard game-winner with 39 seconds left.
His receiving score also rode shotgun with program history as Noah Fifita tied the Wildcats’ career passing-TD record at 67. Dickey bludgeoned then-No. 8 BYU with 23 carries for 121 yards and a touchdown, moving atop the Big 12 rushing chart.
With 867 yards on the season and 11 rushing TDs, he’s tracking to become just the ninth Red Raider to eclipse 1,000 yards in a single year.
On defense, UCF’s Phillip Dunnam authored a first in Knights history with three interceptions in one game, snatching passes from Houston after Cougars quarterback Conner Weigman had thrown only four picks all season.
Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez repeated as Defensive Player of the Week (and collected his third this season) by filling the stat sheet in the Red Raiders’ 29-7 win over then-No. 8 BYU: 14 tackles, an interception, and a fumble recovery.
Already the nation’s leader in forced fumbles, Rodriguez became the first FBS player since 2013 to post at least five forced fumbles, three interceptions, and two fumble recoveries in the same season.
Special teams swung results, too. Iowa State’s Aiden Flora housed a 79-yard punt in the fourth quarter to beat TCU 20-17, the Cyclones’ first punt-return touchdown since 2017, and he’s averaging a blistering 41.4 yards per return.
Texas Tech kicker Stone Harrington repeated as Special Teams Player of the Week after drilling a school-record five field goals (27, 29, 34, 39, 47) in the BYU win, joining a short list of FBS kickers with five-plus makes in a game this season.
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West Virginia redshirt freshman Diore Hubbard claimed Freshman of the Week with 158 all-purpose yards in a 29-22 victory over Colorado, including the Mountaineers’ longest play from scrimmage this season on a 69-yard reception.
In the trenches, Iowa State earned Offensive Line of the Week by paving a 161-yard rushing day and allowing just one sack, while Texas Tech captured Defensive Line of the Week after holding the then-top-10 Cougars to seven points, 67 rushing yards, and 188 passing yards with a sack of Bear Bachmeier.
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