{"id":320042,"date":"2025-11-29T06:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/320042\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T06:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:15:07","slug":"byu-is-officially-headed-to-the-big-12-championship-game-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/320042\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU is officially headed to the Big 12 championship game \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Arizona just helped BYU in a major way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With the Wildcats\u2019 rivalry win over No. 20 Arizona State Friday night, the Cougars have officially clinched a spot in next week\u2019s Big 12 championship game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now, no matter what happens in its Saturday matchup with UCF, BYU has a guaranteed trip to Arlington to compete for the league title next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Additionally, the Cougars\u2019 Big 12 championship opponent is now confirmed, and it\u2019s a familiar foe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BYU will face off with Texas Tech once again, having fallen 29-7 to the Red Raiders in Lubbock on Nov. 8. The stakes will be higher than ever in the rematch, with the winner earning an automatic College Football Playoff bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This will be BYU\u2019s first conference championship game appearance since 1998, when the Cougars lost the WAC title to Air Force in 20-13 fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BYU\u2019s last conference championship was 2007 in the Mountain West, though there was no league title game back then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Cougars and Red Raiders will face off in the Big 12 championship game at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. MST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona just helped BYU in a major way. With the Wildcats\u2019 rivalry win over No. 20 Arizona State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[40544,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-320042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-byu-cougars","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}