No. 21 Texas Tech closes homestand Saturday with Oregon State

OREGON STATE at #21 TEXAS TECH
Lubbock, Texas | Jones AT&T Stadium
Sept. 13, 2025
FOX | 2:30 p.m. CT

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LUBBOCK, Texas – No. 21 Texas Tech (2-0) will look to wrap non-conference play with an unblemished record Saturday when hosting Oregon State (0-2) for a 2:30 p.m. kickoff inside Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders will be searching for their first 3-0 start to a season since 2021 in what will be just the second all-time meeting between the Red Raiders and Beavers, and the first since 1959, when Texas Tech edged Oregon State, 15-14, in Lubbock.

Television coverage will be provided by FOX with Tim Brando behind the mic. He will be joined by former Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner, serving as the broadcast analyst in the booth, while Josh Sims will cover the action from the sidelines. Fans can access the game from their mobile or streaming device by using the FOX Sports 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 83, as well as on the Varsity app.

RED RAIDERS ON PACE TO SELL OUT JONES AT&T STADIUM FOR THIRD STRAIGHT WEEK

As of Monday, Sept. 8, fewer than 500 single-game tickets were available for this Saturday's contest versus Oregon State; the Texas Tech Athletics Department announced its Aug. 30 home opener versus Arkansas-Pine Bluff was a sellout at Noon on Thursday, Aug. 28, and its Sept. 6 game versus Kent State was announced a sellout the morning of Thursday, Sept. 4.
Tickets can be purchased online at TexasTech.com or by speaking to a ticket sales representative at 806-742-TECH.
Reminder for ticket holders: in advance of gameday, add your tickets to your mobile wallet. Also, by having your tickets already in your wallet, you can avoid slow or weak wi-fi/cellular signals at the stadium.
Texas Tech sold out of season tickets for the third consecutive season in early May as Red Raider fans purchased more than 33,000 season passes for the 2025 campaign.
In addition to the first two games of the 2025 season, the primary ticket inventory for the Oct. 25 showdown with Oklahoma State was the first Texas Tech football game to sell out this season, which was on June 26.
Fans are encouraged to visit SeatGeek for tickets for games that the Texas Tech Athletics Department has previously announced as a sellout. The contest versus the Cowboys, which will also serve as the Parents and Family Weekend game, attracts large crowds to the Texas Tech campus annually. Select single-game tickets remain available for Kansas (Oct. 11), BYU (Nov. 8), and UCF (Nov. 15).

PLENTY OF POINTS IN FIRST TWO WEEKS

Texas Tech is coming off back-to-back routs after downing Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 67-7, in its opener and then Kent State, 62-14, this past weekend to mark the first time the Red Raiders have started a season with consecutive 60-point performances.
The Red Raiders are the only team in the country to start the season with back-to-back 60-point outings and the first FBS program to do so since Auburn in 2021.
Texas Tech enters this weekend ranked second in the FBS for scoring at 64.5 points per game and third for total offense at 604.5 yards a contest.

DEFENSE LIVING UP TO EXPECTATIONS

For as good as its offense has performed through the first two games of the season, the same could be said about Texas Tech's defense.
In fact, Pro Football Focus has the Red Raiders as the second-highest graded defensive unit in college football (92.8) and the best in pass-rushing opportunities (90.9) as the publication has credited Texas Tech with 51 pressures.
Texas Tech has allowed only 21 points through the first two weeks - all late in games when the starters have already departed - its fewest during that span since 2019.

RED RAIDERS IN THE POLLS

Texas Tech moved to No. 20 in the AFCA coaches poll this week and No. 21 in the Associated Press rankings following its 62-14 victory over Kent State. The Red Raiders have been ranked inside the top 25 of both major polls every week thus far this season.
The Red Raiders entered the 2025 season ranked inside the top 25 of both major polls for the first time since 2008, as the Red Raiders were No. 23 in the Associated Press poll and No. 24 in the AFCA coaches poll. Texas Tech was previously ranked No. 24 in the 2023 AFCA preseason poll before falling out after a season-opening loss at Wyoming.
It was the first time the Red Raiders had appeared in the Associated Press poll since Sept. 23, 2018, when Texas Tech was No. 24 nationally after starting its season 3-1 overall with wins over Lamar, Houston, and at No. 15 Oklahoma State, and the lone loss coming in the opener to Ole Miss.

NUMBERS TO KNOW

5: Behren Morton has thrown for multiple touchdown passes in each of his last six games, which is tied for the longest active streak in the FBS.
9: Reggie Virgil leads the team with three touchdown catches as he has hauled in a scoring pass in nine of his last 10 games dating back to his time at Miami (Ohio).
50: Texas Tech has scored at least 50 points in each of Behren Morton's last four starts, dating back to the 2024 regular season against Oklahoma State and West Virginia.
51: Pro Football Focus has credited Texas Tech with 51 total pressures created through the first two games, with 18 of those coming from David Bailey and Romello Height combined.
108: Texas Tech has outscored opponents by 108 points so far this season, the second-highest point differential in the country behind only Oregon (112).
129: Texas Tech's 129 points are the fifth most through two games of a season by any Big 12 team all-time and the most by the school since 2005 (136).

INSIDE THE SERIES

Texas Tech and Oregon State will kick off a home-and-home series against each other with the Beavers heading to Lubbock this weekend and the Red Raiders making the return trip in week two of the 2026 season.
This marks the second all-time meeting between the Red Raiders and Beavers and the first since Texas Tech edged Oregon State, 15-14, at home early in the 1959 season. Texas Tech rallied from an early 14-0 deficit to improve to 2-0 early in its season, backed by a pair of rushing touchdowns from Kenneth Talkington in the second half. Talkington found the end zone from only two 2-yards out in the third quarter and then added the two-point conversion on a pass to Bake Turner. Talkington provided the game winner with only 43 seconds remaining on the clock, pushing his way through the Oregon State defense from only 1 yard out. He added the extra point immediately after for the 15-14 victory.
The Red Raiders are no strangers to facing Pac-12 opponents, as this will be the sixth time since 2016 that Texas Tech has had a non-conference foe with the league's logo on its jersey. That stretch includes previous matchups against Arizona State (2016-17), Arizona (2019), Oregon (2023), and Washington State (2024). Of that group, only Washington State remains in the league as the Cougars defeated the Red Raiders, 37-16, in Pullman a year ago.
The Red Raiders combined to go 2-1 against former Pac-12 schools a year ago, topping both Arizona and Arizona State while falling to Colorado in their first year as Big 12 members. Texas Tech only has Arizona State back on its schedule this year from that group, as the Red Raiders will also face another former Pac-12 school in Utah.
Next season's return trip to Corvallis will mark only the second time in program history the Red Raiders have traveled to the state of Oregon for a game. Texas Tech previously went to Eugene, falling to Oregon, 16-13, early in the 1992 season under head coach Spike Dykes. Texas Tech has one other trip to the Beehive State planned already for the 2033 season, as the Red Raiders will return a previous home visit from Oregon during the 2023 season. Oregon rallied to edge the Red Raiders, 38-30, in the week two matchup that season.

TEXAS TECH-OREGON STATE CONNECTIONS

Family bragging rights are on the line Saturday with a pair of brothers on each other's roster in Texas Tech sophomore wide receiver Kelby Valsin and his older brother Jimmy Valsin III, a senior wide receiver at Oregon State. The elder Valsin has caught 12 for 162 yards and two touchdowns in his fifth and final season as a Beaver. The Valsin brothers grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex (Arlington, to be exact), with both starring at Bowie High School.

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No. 21 Texas Tech closes homestand Saturday with Oregon State

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Players Mentioned

David Bailey

Romello Height

Behren Morton

Kelby Valsin

Reggie Virgil

No. 21 Texas Tech closes homestand Saturday with Oregon State

Next Event

Players Mentioned

David Bailey

Romello Height

Behren Morton

Kelby Valsin

Reggie Virgil

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