The 2017 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season.

The 2017 Big 12 media days were held July 17–18, 2017 in Frisco, Texas.

In the Big 12 preseason media poll, West Virginia was predicted to finish sixth in the standings.

The 2017 schedule consists of six home, five away, and one neutral site game in the regular season.

[2] The Mountaineers will host two of the three non-conference opponents, Delaware State from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and East Carolina from the American Athletic Conference and travel to Landover, Maryland to face Virginia Tech.