{"id":70950,"date":"2025-12-01T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/70950\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:15:12","slug":"byu-opens-as-big-underdog-to-texas-tech-in-big-12-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/70950\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU Opens as Big Underdog to Texas Tech in Big 12 Championship Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/football\/ncaa-football-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FanDuel<\/a> Sportsbook released it conference championship game odds and BYU is an early 13.5-point underdog to Texas Tech in the Big 12 Championship game. The point total is 50.5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Texas Tech handily beat BYU 29-7 in Lubbock on November 8. That is BYU\u2019s lone loss of the season. The Red Raiders outgained BYU 368-255 yards and won the turnover battle 3-0. BYU\u2019s three turnovers were a Bear Bachmeier interception and fumble and a Parker Kingston muffed punt in the first quarter. LJ Martin had just 10 carries for 35 yards in his first game back from a shoulder injury he suffered the game before at Iowa State. Martin has looked much healthier since, running for 405 yards and 3 TDs in 3 games. BYU will need LJ to be effective if they want a shot at pulling the upset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Texas should be safely in the College Football Playoff field regardless of the field, and a win over BYU would likely secure a top 4 seed for them and a first round bye. BYU, meanwhile, likely to needs to win if they want to get in the CFP field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FanDuel Sportsbook released it conference championship game odds and BYU is an early 13.5-point underdog to Texas Tech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8670,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-70950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-byu-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70950","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=70950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}