{"id":81736,"date":"2025-12-09T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81736\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:28:23","slug":"jacob-rodriguez-not-named-heisman-trophy-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81736\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Rodriguez not named Heisman Trophy finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech\u2019s Jacob Rodriguez will not be in New York this Saturday after not being named a Heisman Trophy finalist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The four invited to the ceremony are Indiana\u2019s Fernando Mendoza, Vanderbilt\u2019s Diego Pavia, Notre Dame\u2019s Jeremiyah Love and Ohio State\u2019s Julian Sayin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rodriguez was awarded the Butkus Award on Friday after being named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No. 4 Texas Tech awaits the winner of No. 5 Oregon and No. 12 James Madison for a New Year\u2019s Day game in the Orange Bowl in Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech\u2019s Jacob Rodriguez will not be in New York this Saturday after not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,261,34005,21081,3785,168,170,169,5779,311,1775,1769,299,310],"class_list":["post-81736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-big-12","tag-college-football","tag-heisman","tag-heisman-trophy","tag-jacob-rodriguez","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-red-raider","tag-red-raider-football","tag-red-raiders","tag-texas-tech","tag-ttu","tag-ttu-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81736","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=81736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}