Beavers Make First Trip Of 2025 Saturday In Lubbock

GAME 3: OREGON STATE VS. TEXAS TECH
Sept. 13, 2025 • Lubbock, Texas • Jones A&T Stadium • 12:30 p.m. PT • FOX

TV/Radio/Internet
Television: FOX
Play-By-Play: Tim Brando
Analyst: Devin Gardner
Sideline: Josh Sims
OSU Radio: Beaver Sports Network, Varsity Network (Oregon State)
Play-By-Play: Mike Parker
Analyst: Jim Wilson
Sideline: Ron Callan
Pre-Game: Steve Preece
OSU on SiriusXM Radio: 387
OSU on SiriusXM App/Internet: 977
Live Stats: OSUBeavers.com

Game Notes
• Oregon State plays in its first road game of the 2025 season Saturday when visiting Texas Tech at Jones A&T Stadium in Lubbock. Kickoff is slated for 12:30 p.m. PT (2:30 p.m. in Texas).
• The game will air live on FOX with Tim Brando (play-by-play), Devin Gardner (analyst) and Josh Sims (sideline reporter) calling the action.
• The game will air live on the Beaver Sports Radio Network. For a list of affiliates, turn to page two of these notes.
• Every game this season can be heard live on the Varsity Network, a free application available via computer browsers, smartphones and tablets. After downloading the application, search for Oregon State.
• The meeting is just the second between the teams, with the first coming in 1959 in Lubbock. Texas Tech won that game, 15-14.

Oregon State By The Numbers
3 - Third-down conversions in 21 attempts by Oregon State's opponents thus far. That 14.29 percentage ranks fifth nationally.
6 - 100-yard rush efforts for Anthony Hankerson at Oregon State after finishing with 136 against Fresno State.
8 - Catches and 106 yards, on average, over the last four games for Trent Walker dating back to the 2024 season.
10 - Oregon State pass plays of 20 or more yards thus far, good for 13th nationally.
12 - Receptions for Taz Reddicks over the first two games. He came into the season with 17 catches in 11 games.
13 - Different Beavers with at least one catch this season.
158 - Receiving yards for Reddicks against the Bulldogs, the 32nd-most in a single-game in program history.
615 - Passing yards for Maalik Murphy over the first two games, including 371 versus Fresno State.

Against Texas Tech
• Oregon State and Texas Tech have met just once, in 1959 in Lubbock. Texas Tech won that matchup, 15-14.
• A full box score is not available. The Beavers were up 14-0 at halftime but the Red Raiders scored eight points in the third quarter and seven in the fourth for the come-from-behind win.
• Saturday's game is the first at an active Big 12 Conference foe for the Beavers since a 1996 visit to Baylor.
• Oregon State has played just five active Big 12 teams since 1996, going 2-3. OSU defeated Baylor in Corvallis in 1998, and Missouri in the 2006 Sun Bowl. The Beavers lost at Baylor in 1996, versus Texas in the 2012 Alamo Bowl and against Oklahoma State at home in 2019. Oregon State was supposed to play at Oklahoma State in 2020 but the game was canceled due to Covid-19.

News, Notes And More
• Twitter.com/BeaverFootball is still the program's main Twitter handle, but the Twitter.com/BeaverFBNews account was created prior to the 2019 season.
• Follow @BeaverFBNews for news, pre-game and in-game notes and more. The handle will post in-game news and scoring information as it happens.

In The Booth
• Coaches in the press box this season include offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Ryan Gunderson and co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach Rod Chance.
• The two are joined by graduate assistants Trevon Bradford (offense), Adam Klein (offense) and Nick Pickett (defense). They are joined by special teams quality control analyst Daniel Akey.

On This Date
• Oregon State is playing on September 13 for just the seventh time in the program's history.
• The Beavers are 2-4 on the date, last defeating Hawai'i, 45-7, in 2008 in a game played in Corvallis.

Bray Adds Defensive Coordinator Title
• Oregon State head coach Trent Bray is in his second season leading the program. The former Oregon State linebacker added the defensive coordinator title in the offseason.
• Bray is in his 11th season with the program, and took over as the team's defensive coordinator over the last four games of the 2021 season. He served as DC in both 2022 and 2023.
• Rod Chance, who coaches the secondary, serves as Co-Defensive Coordinator.

Behind Center
• Maalik Murphy is the seventh different opening-day starting quarterback for the Beavers dating back to 2019. Here's a look at OSU's quarterback leader statistically over the first two games:
2025: Maalik Murphy - 52-81, 615 yds, 4 TD, 3 INT
2024: Gevani McCoy - 25-36, 295 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT
2023: DJ Uiagalelei - 28-38, 346 yds, 5 TD, 0 INT
2022: Chance Nolan - 28-50, 470 yds, 3 TD, 2 INT
2021: Chance Nolan - 31-45, 459 yds, 2 TD, 0 INT (note Sam Noyer was the opening-game starter)
2020: Tristan Gebbia - 45-72, 414 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT
2019: Jake Luton - 38-74, 420 yds, 4 TD, 0 INT
• Murphy is the first Beaver to surpass 600 yards in the first two games of a season since Sean Mannion threw for 628 in 2014. Mannion attempted 82 passes over the first two games of 2014.

Not Since '19
• The Beavers returned both their leading rusher (Anthony Hankerson, 1,082 yards) and leading receiver (Trent Walker, 901 yards) from last season.
• It's the first time since 2019 that the Beavers have had both their leading rusher and receiver return in the same season. Jermar Jefferson and Isaiah Hodgins both returned that season.
• How rare is this? It is just the eighth time the team's leaders have returned since 2001, which also included 2016, 2015, 2012, 2010, 2007 and 2003.

More On Maalik
• Maalik Murphy's 371 passing yards were the first of over 300 yards by a Beaver quarterback since Gevani McCoy's 348 at Nevada on Oct. 12 of last season.
• Murphy's 371, meanwhile, marked just the 12th of 300 or more yards by an OSU quarterback since 2018. Six of the previous 11 were tallied by Jake Luton.
• Murphy has surpassed 300 yards three times in his career and 200 a total of 14 times. Thirteen of the 14 have come in his last 14 starts dating back to 2024 at Duke.
• Murphy ranks 11th nationally averaging 307.5 yards per game this season.

Ojeda Nailed It
• Caleb Ojeda's first career field goal attempt came in the second quarter against California and he nailed it from 53 yards out. That tied him for the 10th-longest by a Beaver, equaling Kieron Walford (1979 vs. Stanford), Jim Nielsen (1985 vs. Grambling) and Alexis Serna (2006 vs. USC).
• Ojeda's 53-yarder is one of 27 of 50 or more yards at the FBS level this season. It is tied for the 11th-longest.
• He is 2-for-3 this season after connecting on a 27-yarder against Fresno State.

On Third
• California and Fresno State have combined to go 3-for-21 on third downs this season, a 14.29 percent success rate. That ties Oregon State for fifth nationally with Minnesota, trailing only Virginia (9.52 percent), TCU (10 percent), BYU (11.54 percent) and Ohio (13.04 percent).
• Fresno State was just 1-for-8, becoming the first Oregon State opponent since San Jose State in 2015 to convert just once.
• Oregon State's 2024 defense allowed opponents to convert on 59 of 131 attempts, or 45.04 percent. That put the Beavers at 115 out of 134 teams nationally.

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Players Mentioned

Anthony Hankerson

Gevani McCoy

Maalik Murphy

Caleb Ojeda

Taz Reddicks

Trent Walker