How to watch Texas Tech vs. Arizona: Broadcast info., game notes, more

Late Saturday night, the Texas Tech football team will take on Arizona in the season's third Big 12 contest. Looking to move to 5-1 overall and 3-0 in conference play, the Red Raiders will face just their second road trip of the season.

They will catch a Wildcat team that should be feeling pretty good about itself. Last week, Arizona secured a 23-10 win over then-No. Utah in Salt Lake City.

The Wildcats are now 3-1 on the year and 1-0 in Big 12 action. However, it is still fair to wonder how strong their team is.

In week one, the Wildcats beat a bad New Mexico team that is currently just 1-4 on the season. Then, in week two, they were unimpressive in a 22-10 victory over FCS opponent Northern Arizona.

The third game of the year for Arizona was a disaster. They were humiliated 31-7 at Kansas State in a non-conference game between two teams that entered the year believing they were conference title contenders.

Even their win over Utah last week has to come with a small asterisk next to it. That's because the Utes were playing without starting QB Cam Rising who missed the game due to an injury to his throwing hand. Thus, the Utes offense was significantly limited giving the Wildcats a huge edge.

Still, this will be the best team that Tech has played this year. The Wildcats have NFL talent at a number of key positions and they will present plenty of problems for the Red Raiders.

So let's look at everything Texas Tech fans need to know about this game including the broadcast information, series history, forecast, and game notes.

Texas Tech vs. Arizona broadcast information

Kickoff: 10 p.m. Central

TV Broadcast:
FOX
Play-by-Play: Connor Onion
Analyst: Mark Helfrich
Sideline Reporter: Allison Williams

Radio Broadcast:
Play-by-Play: Brian Jensen
Analyst: John Harris
Sideline Reporter: Chris Level
SiriusXM (local): Channel 384
Mobile App: Varsity Network (Texas Tech)

Texas Tech vs. Arizona series history

Texas Tech all-time record: 25-6-2
First meeting: Texas Tech 21 - Arizona 0 (1932, Lubbock, TX)
Most recent meeting: Arizona 28 - Texas Tech 14 (2019, Tucson, AZ)

Texas Tech vs. Arizona weather forecast

High: 103
Low: 72
Winds: ESE 9 MPH
Humidity: 10%
Skies: Sunny

Texas Tech vs. Arizona game notes

Game notes courtesy of TexasTech.com.

• Texas Tech has been a league member with Arizona once previously as the two schools faced each other regularly as part of the Border Conference from 1931-59 until the Red Raiders were invited to the Southwest Conference. The Red Raiders were 18-2-1 during that span against the Wildcats, winning 15 consecutive matchups from 1937-58 at one point.

• Texas Tech will be searching for its first 3-0 start to Big 12 play since 2013 and just its fifth in program history Saturday night in Tucson. The Red Raiders previously began their Big 12 schedule with three consecutive victories in 1998, 2005, 2008, and 2013, finishing with at least eight wins in each of the last three occurrences.

• Texas Tech fans will have to stay up late for Saturday night’s kick, which is scheduled for 10 p.m. CT in Lubbock. It will be only the eighth time in program history that the Red Raiders have kicked off at 9 p.m. CT or later. Texas Tech is 3-4 all-time in those games.

• The Red Raiders will be looking to snap a three-game losing streak in late-night kicks as Texas Tech went west to fall at Arizona State in 2016, to Arizona in 2019 and then earlier this season at Washington State.

• This will match the latest known kick time for the Red Raiders in program history. Tech played its 2014 road game at UTEP at 10 p.m. CT, as well as in 1988, when Texas Tech and Oklahoma State kicked off at 10 p.m. CT from Tokyo, Japan.

• Texas Tech has gone down to the wire to secure three of its four wins this season as the Red Raiders are a perfect 3-0 in games determined by eight points or less. The Red Raiders are now 10-3 in one-possession games under Joey McGuire, a drastic improvement for a program that was only 13-20 in similar contests the seven seasons prior to his arrival. Texas Tech was 4-0 in one-possession games during McGuire’s debut season in 2022 before finishing 3-3 a year ago.

• In its nearly 30 years as a Big 12 member, Texas Tech has never finished above .500 in league play over three consecutive seasons. The Red Raiders experienced a nine-year stretch from 2001-09 where Texas Tech, playing an eight-game conference schedule, recorded at least a 4-4 mark against its Big 12 peers.