PROVO, Utah \u2014 BYU is headed to the Big 12 Championship rematch against Texas Tech with a spot in the College Football Playoff on the line.<\/p>\n
The Cougars earned a trip to the title game thanks to Arizona’s rivalry win over Arizona State on Friday. It will be BYU’s first-ever appearance in the Big 12 Championship Game as the school is playing in just its third season in the conference.<\/p>\n
Currently 10-1 before Saturday’s regular season finale at home against UCF, the Cougars will face Texas Tech in the conference championship, the team that handed BYU its only loss of the season.<\/p>\n
Both BYU and Texas Tech are 10-1, although the Red Raiders are the No. 5 team in the CFP rankings, while the Cougars are No. 11 and would likely need a win in the conference championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas to earn a spot in the playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Big 12 Championship Game will kickoff next Saturday at 10 a.m. MST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PROVO, Utah \u2014 BYU is headed to the Big 12 Championship rematch against Texas Tech with a spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,2188],"class_list":{"0":"post-70009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-utah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}