Texas Tech dominates BYU to win first-ever Big 12 Championship

For the archetypal clip successful programme history, Texas Tech are Big 12 champions.  

No. 4 Texas Tech bushed No. 11 BYU 34-7 connected Saturday day astatine AT&T Stadium down a beardown antiaircraft performance. Texas Tech improved to 12-1 with the win, the archetypal 12-win play successful programme history. 

BYU scored connected their opening drive, but didn’t people again. Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez, who is apt to beryllium a campaigner for the Heisman Trophy, had 13 tackles successful the win. 

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Texas Tech antiaircraft extremity Romello Height (9) celebrates with teammates aft recovering a BYU fumble successful the 2nd fractional of a Big 12 Conference title NCAA assemblage shot crippled successful Arlington, Texas, connected Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)

BYU went up 7-0 early, but Texas Tech scored 13 points successful the 2nd 4th to instrumentality a 13-7 pb into halftime. Texas Tech kicker Stone Harrington nailed a 23-yard tract extremity to unfastened the scoring for the Red Raiders to marque it 7-3. 

On the Red Raiders' ensuing violative possession, Harrington had different tract extremity opportunity, this clip from 48 yards out, but missed, to support the people 7-3. 

BYU had small violative occurrence aft the missed tract goal, but BYU caput manager Kalani Sitake took a gamble connected 4th down. On 4th and 7 connected their ain 42-yard line, Sitake called a fake punt, but the walk was incomplete. 

The Red Raiders capitalized connected the bully tract position, arsenic backmost Behren Morton connected with wide receiver Coy Eakin for a 33-yard touchdown to marque it 10-7. 

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Texas Tech wide receiver Coy Eakin celebrates Cameron Dickey's touchdown successful the 2nd fractional of a Big 12 Conference title NCAA assemblage shot crippled against BYU successful Arlington, Texas, connected Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)

The Texas Tech defence gave their discourtesy a accidental to people earlier the fractional ended with different halt of the BYU offense, and they tacked connected different tract extremity to marque it 13-7. 

BYU’s discourtesy remained listless successful the 3rd quarter. Quarterback Bear Bachmeier tried to marque a play connected 3rd down heavy successful his ain territory, but linebacker Ben Roberts jumped and snared the pass, giving the Red Raiders large tract presumption aft the interception.

It was the archetypal of 2 interceptions for Roberts connected the day, arsenic helium besides picked disconnected Bachmeier successful the 4th fourth with an awesome one-handed catch. 

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The Texas Tech discourtesy made bully usage of the tract presumption arsenic moving backmost Cameron Dickey scored connected an 11-yard unreserved connected the archetypal play aft the interception to enactment the Red Raiders up 21-7.  

Texas Tech had different tract extremity to spell up 24-7 aft the touchdown and past sealed the crippled with Eakin’s 2nd touchdown drawback of the game. Morten deed Eakin successful the flat, who past took attraction of the remainder himself connected the 24-yard score. 

The triumph locks Texas Tech into the College Football Playoff. 

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