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Bye weeks are in the past. That means each week of November, we are treated to eight-game Big 12 slates. And there’s no shortage of marquee matchups in a conference that currently features six ranked teams in the College Football Playoff committee’s Top 25.
The Big 12 kicks off Week 11 with a late-night Friday matchup in Boulder between Houston and Colorado, where the No. 14 Cougars attempt to continue their College Football Playoff push, equipped with their highest-ever ranking from the CFP committee.
Then Saturday features seven games, with kickoff times ranging from 12 p.m. ET in Ames to 9:30 p.m. ET in Stillwater. Here are five stats to know for every Big 12 matchup in a loaded Saturday slate:
Cincinnati at Iowa State
Saturday, Nov. 14 — 12 p.m. ET on TNT
- Cincinnati running back Cole Tabb leads all FBS ball carriers with at least 40 attempts in rushing average at 8.92 yards per carry. Tabb suffered an injury last week at Houston which snapped his three-game 100-yard streak, but he is listed as probable to return on the availability report.
- Iowa State is averaging 42.0 points per game this season against FBS opponents in Ames, and the lone defeat was to current No. 2 Utah. Running back Aiden Flora has rushed for at least 190 yards and multiple touchdowns in three of the four FBS home games.
- Cincinnati has lost 11 consecutive November matchups. The Bearcats’ last November win came on Nov. 11, 2023 at Houston during their inaugural season in the Big 12. They dropped five consecutive games to close each of the last two seasons.
- When Iowa State scores at least 38 points, it is 4-0. When it scores 31 or fewer, it is 0-5. Last week’s 42-31 loss to Baylor was the first tie the Cyclones exceeded 17 points in a defeat under first-year head coach Jimmy Rogers.
- Cincinnati will face Iowa State for the fourth-straight year. Iowa State is the only opponent the Bearcats had on their schedule every season from 2023-26. Iowa State won the 2023 and 2024 meetings, while Cincinnati got revenge in 2025.
Kansas State at TCU
Saturday, Nov. 14 — 2 p.m. ET on ESPNU
- Kansas State is 0-3 since senior quarterback Avery Johnson suffered a neck/shoulder injury Oct. 17 against Kansas. The Wildcats averaged 35.5 points per game with Johnson as their starter and 23.0 points per game without him in the lineup.
- TCU’s defense still has not allowed 30 points all season. The Horned Frogs had not surrendered more than 24 until last week when Arizona scored 29 in a late-night comeback in Tucson. TCU is No. 11 nationally in scoring defense at 15.8 points allowed per game.
- Kansas State secured just its second interception of the entire season last week when Logan Bartley ran back an 18-yard pick-six. The Wildcats became the second-last FBS team to record its second interception (Nevada still has one), and Bartley was the recipient of both. However, the secondary has been stellar in other areas, ranking 14th nationally in passing yards allowed per game (173.0) and 12th in opponent completion rate (55.6 percent).
- TCU is 4-5, but the Horned Frogs have a plus-72 scoring differential and have not lost a single game by more than one possession. Their losses came by 5, 8, 7, 4, and 1 points. Only of their four wins — a 22-16 comeback over Kansas on Halloween — was by one score.
- Kansas State has won six of the last seven in the series. The Horned Frogs’ lone victory since the start of the 2019 season transpired in 2022 when they rallied from a 28-10 deficit for a 38-28 win. Kansas State later got revenge on the CFP-bound Frogs that season with a 31-28 overtime upset in the Big 12 Championship Game.
Baylor at BYU
Saturday, Nov. 14 — 3:30 p.m. ET on FOX
- Baylor has a plus-68 differential on the road this season. The Bears lost by one point to Kansas but handled Arizona State by 36 and UCF by 32 in their other road environments. This marks their fourth road game of the season.
- In the five games since LJ Martin initially suffered his ankle injury in Week 5 at TCU, no BYU running back has produced more than 66 rushing yards in a game. Last season, Martin averaged 100.4 per game, and this year, he averaged 109.3 in his three full games prior to the injury. Martin returned last week and fielded seven carries for 19 yards and one touchdown at Utah.
- In his first 25 collegiate starts, Baylor quarterback DJ Lagway never recorded as many as 50 rushing yards. But in last week’s 42-31 victory over Iowa State, Lagway’s rushing was a signature component of his game, producing 119 yards and a touchdown. Even if you remove his 54-yard touchdown, he still attained what would have been a career-high 65 yards.
- Baylor is coming off a 42-31 win over Iowa State. It was the first time the Bears surrendered more than 25 points under first-year defensive coordinator Joe Klanderman, who is currently serving as interim head coach. Baylor’s defense ranks 17th nationally allowing just 17.0 points per game.
- When BYU had one loss in 2025, it never climbed higher than No. 11 in the College Football Playoff rankings. The Cougars picked up their second defeat of 2026 last week, yet have eclipsed that threshold and are currently ranked No. 10 — a position which would give them a spot in the 12-team playoff.
Arizona State at UCF
Saturday, Nov. 14 — 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2
- UCF can clinch bowl eligibility for the first time since 2023 with a victory over Arizona State. The Knights are the only current Big 12 program awaiting their first winning season as a member of the conference.
- Arizona State has not won nor lost consecutive games this season, being one of three FBS teams to do so, along with 5-4 Oklahoma and 4-5 Tulane. The Sun Devils have alternated outcomes every week, most recently coming off a 20-10 victory over Colorado.
- The Knights won all three of their Big 12 games by one score, outlasting TCU 21-13, defeating BYU 39-31 in overtime, and surviving Kansas 33-32 on the final snap of regulation. All three UCF losses in Big 12 play came by at least 14 points.
- UCF quarterback Alonza Barnett III started his first game since Sept. 12 in last Saturday’s 33-32 win over Kansas. The James Madison transfer has won 13 of his last 15 games as a starter. His only losses over that timeframe were to Oregon in the 2025 College Football Playoff and a 12-7 loss at Pitt in Week 2 where he injured his hamstring during UCF’s final offensive possession.
- Arizona State is 0-3 on the road this year with a minus-63 point differential. The Sun Devils are taking their first-ever trip to the Bounce House. They have not won an Eastern Time Zone game since 2019 at Michigan State. Both Eastern Time Zone losses since came during their 11-3 campaign in 2024 — at Cincinnati and vs. Texas in the Peach Bowl.
Kansas at West Virginia
Saturday, Nov. 14 — 5:30 p.m. ET on ESPNU
- The winner of this series has scored at least 32 points in all five meetings during the 2020s. Kansas scored 41 points in its 2025 victory and 55 in its 2022 overtime win.
- West Virginia has allowed over 40 points in five of its six Big 12 games this season. The Mountaineers also scored over 40 points in three of those games. They rank 17th in scoring offense (37.2 points per game) and 132nd in scoring defense (34.6 points allowed per game).
- The Mountaineers’ sixth-ranked rushing attack has produced a 90-yard rusher in all but one game. And in that outlier game, quarterback Michael Hawkins Jr. threw for 464 yards and three touchdowns. Running back Cam Cook has exceeded 140 yards five times, including last week when he rushed for 149 at Texas Tech.
- Kansas’ defense has only surrendered more than 20 completions once all year, when Utah quarterback Devon Dampier finished 23-of-30 on Oct. 10. The Jayhawks hold opponents to a completion percentage of 56.3 percent which is 17th-best in the FBS. West Virginia, which prefers to keep things grounded, has the sixth-fewest completions in the FBS.
- West Virginia’s last two games featured a combined 14 lead changes — the most in a two-game span by any FBS team this season. There were six lead changes in the Mountaineers’ 24-20 win at TCU and eight in their 53-48 loss at Texas Tech.
Utah at Arizona
Saturday, Nov. 14 — 7:30 p.m. ET on FOX
- Utah is the first Big 12 team to start 9-0 since 2022 TCU, which has the only Big 12 team to win a College Football Playoff game. The Utes hold the nation’s longest winning streak at 15 games.
- Until Oct. 17, Utah had an 11-game streak of scoring at least 30 points. However, the Utes have kept things on the more defensive side lately, scoring under 30 in three of their last four wins — 27-24 over Colorado, 21-13 over Houston, and 28-20 over BYU.
- Arizona has produced a 130-yard receiver in four consecutive games. Isaiah Mizell generated 183, 134, and 182 yards during the Wildcats’ last three games of October, and to open November, Gio Richardson erupted for 171 yards. Utah has allowed two receivers to record 130 yards this season — Kansas’ Cam Pickett (134) and Houston’s Amare Thomas (133).
- Noah Fifita has thrown for over 300 yards in four straight starts, and he has completed at least 60.0 of attempts in all nine games this season. He has recorded a completion percentage north of 73.0 in five starts, currently ranking fourth nationally in passing yards per game (310.4) and third in completion percentage (73.0) among quarterbacks with at least 100 attempts.
- Since 2021, Utah is 2-7 in road games against ranked opponents. The Utes’ wins were over No. 14 Oklahoma State in 2024 and No. 18 USC in 2023. Utah was ranked for eight of these nine matchups (all but 2024 at Colorado).
Texas Tech at Oklahoma State
Saturday, Nov. 14 — 9:30 p.m. ET on ESPN
- Oklahoma State quarterback Drew Mestemaker has an eight-game streak of throwing for at least 300 yards and multiple touchdowns, accomplishing those marks in every start as a Cowboy except for the opener at Tulsa. Mestemaker is second nationally in passing yards (2,962) and first in passing touchdowns (29).
- Texas Tech leads the all-time series, 25-24-3. The winner has scored over 40 points in 13 of the last 14 matchups dating back to 2011, with Oklahoma State’s 23-0 win in 2021 serving as the lone exception. The loser scored at least 34 points in eight of the last 14.
- Texas Tech quarterback Thomas Castellanos threw for 362 yards and five touchdowns in the 53-48 win over West Virginia last week. It was the Red Raiders’ first 300-yard passing performance since Nov. 29, 2025 at West Virginia and the most passing yards by a Texas Tech quarterback in the last 20 games.
- Oklahoma State is 4-0 in Stillwater this season, averaging 49.3 points per game and scoring at least 39 in each matchup at Boone Pickens Stadium. Still, the Cowboys were tied or trailing in the second half of all three home games against FBS opponents.
- Oklahoma State cornerback LaDainian Fields is the standalone FBS interceptions leader with seven after picking off two passes in Week 10 at Kansas State. Six of his seven interceptions occurred in the last four weeks. In the 2020s, only one FBS player has recorded more than seven picks in a season — former Louisiana Tech safety Jakari Foster, who had eight last season. Foster is currently an assistant coach for the Bulldogs.
Check out more Big 12 coverage from our sister SB Nation Big 12 sites:
AZ Desert Swarm (Arizona), Vanquish the Foe (BYU), Wide Right & Natty Lite (Iowa State), Rock Chalk Talk (Kansas), Bring on the Cats (Kansas State), Frogs O’ War (TCU), The Smoking Musket (West Virginia)
