The Texas Tech football team was off this week and remained put in the national rankings .
The Red Raiders (10-1, 7-1) remain ranked No. 7 in the country in the US LBM Coaches Poll, released Sunday. The Top 10 was unchanged after all seven of the teams in action in Week 13 won their respective games.
Texas Tech will close the regular season Saturday at 11 a.m. on the road against West Virginia in a game that will air on ESPN. It's the second year in a row the Red Raiders have wrapped the regular season against the Mountaineers, last year topping WVU 52-15 in Lubbock.
BYU and Utah, each winners this week, also maintained their spots in the Coaches Poll, BYU coming in at No. 11 and Utah at No. 14. Houston, which lost at home to TCU, dropped out of the rankings.
Texas Tech technically dropped a spot in the Associated Press Top 25 though the Red Raiders were tied for 6th in last week's poll.
The Red Raiders are 7th this week with Oregon making a move up to No. 5 after beating USC at home. BYU is ranked 11th and Utah 14th.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Did Texas Tech football move up in national rankings without playing?

