{"id":95949,"date":"2025-12-21T06:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/95949\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:15:07","slug":"no-5-oregon-opens-as-slight-favorite-over-no-4-texas-tech-in-cfp-quarterfinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/95949\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 5 Oregon opens as slight favorite over No. 4 Texas Tech in CFP quarterfinal"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 5 Oregon<\/a> opened as a 1\u00bd-point over No. 4 Texas Tech for their January 1 College Football Playoff quarterfinal in the Orange Bowl.<\/p>\n

The Ducks head into the New Year\u2019s Day game off a 51-34 win over James Madison<\/a> in a CFP first-round game Saturday night at Autzen Stadium.<\/p>\n

The CFP quarterfinal, which will be played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Springs, Fla., kicks off at 9 a.m. PT.<\/p>\n

The opening over\/under is 53\u00bd points.<\/p>\n

Oregon (12-1) returns to the quarterfinals for a second consecutive year. The Ducks lost to Ohio State 41-21 in last year\u2019s quarters at the Rose Bowl.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech (12-1) was one of first team to earn a first-round as one of the top four seeds. The Red Raiders blasted Brigham Young in the Big 12 Championship game on December 6.<\/p>\n

Oregon last played Texas Tech in 2023. The Ducks beat the Red Raiders 38-30 in Lubbock, Tex. <\/p>\n

The point spreads for the other quarterfinals are Ohio State by 9\u00bd over Miami (Cotton Bowl), Indiana by 7 \u00bd over Alabama (Rose Bowl) and Georgia by 6\u00bd over Mississippi (Sugar Bowl).<\/p>\n

No. 4 Texas Tech (12-1) at No. 5 Oregon (12-1)<\/p>\n

When:\u00a0Thursday, January 1Time:\u00a09 a.m. PTWhere:\u00a0Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Fla.TV: ESPN and ABCStream: You can watch this game on DIRECTV<\/a>(free trial) or with Sling<\/a> (a Sling day pass to watch this game and more is just $4.99). Streaming broadcasts for this game will be available on these streaming services locally in Oregon and Washington, but may not be available outside of the Pacific Northwest, depending on your location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 5 Oregon opened as a 1\u00bd-point over No. 4 Texas Tech for their January 1 College Football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24706,265,261,6564,24707,769,24708,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-95949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-big-ten-football","tag-cfp","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-playoffs","tag-ducks-football","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-oregon-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95949","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=95949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}