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Texas Tech football vs BYU live updates, start time, TV channel for Big 12 title
The Texas Tech football team will try to score more points than the opposition when the Red Raiders take on the BYU Cougars in the 2025 Big 12 Championship game in AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
The fifth-ranked Red Raiders and 11th-ranked Cougars are both 11-1 overall after going 8-1 in Big 12 play during the regular season. Texas Tech handled BYU 29-7 last month in Lubbock and will try to earn another victory to cement its place in the College Football Playoff. Meanwhile, BYU needs a win to make sure it gets to the CFP itself.
Heisman hopeful Jacob Rodriguez, national sacks leader David Bailey and the Texas Tech defense will once again try to limit the BYU offense led by running back LJ Martin and freshman quarterback Bear Bachmeier.
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal is bringing you live coverage of the game from Arlington. Follow along.
Texas Tech football vs BYU in Big 12 championship live score updates
This section will be updated closer to gametime.
Injury updates for Texas Tech football, BYU in Big 12 Championship
Injury updates are as of Friday.
Texas Tech Injury Report
OUT: DL Skyler Gill-Howard; CB Maurion Horn; WR T.J. West; WR Roy Alexander; LB Trent Low (first half only)
PROBABLE: QB Behren Morton, S Cole Wisniewski; LB John Curry; QB Mitch Griffis; OLB David Bailey; OL Howard Sampson; CB Macho Stevenson
BYU Injury Report
PROBABLE: TE Keayen Nead
What channel is Texas Tech vs BYU in Big 12 Championship on today?
Texas Tech vs. BYU will air on ABC in the Big 12 Championship game of the 2025 college football season. Joe Tessitore and Jesse Palmer will call the game from the booth with Kris Budden and Katie George reporting from the sidelines. You can stream the game on Fubo.
Texas Tech football vs BYU time today
- Date: Saturday, Dec. 6
- Start time: 11 a.m. CT
The Texas Tech vs BYU game starts at 11 a.m. from AT&T Stadium in Arlington
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Texas Tech football vs BYU in Big 12 championship prediction
In this week’s game preview and prediction, we projected a 35-14 win for Texas Tech. Here’s the full breakdown
Texas Tech football schedule
Here is the entire Texas Tech football schedule for the 2025 season.
- Aug. 30: Texas Tech 67, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 7
- Sept. 6: Texas Tech 62, Kent State 14
- Sept. 13: Texas Tech 45, Oregon State 14
- Sept. 20: Texas Tech 34, Utah 10
- Oct. 4: Texas Tech 35, Houston 11
- Oct. 11: Texas Tech 42, Kansas 17
- Oct. 18: Arizona State 26, Texas Tech 22
- Oct. 25: Texas Tech 42, Oklahoma State 0
- Nov. 1: Texas Tech Texas Tech 43, Kansas State 20
- Nov. 8: Texas Tech 29, BYU 7
- Nov. 15: Texas Tech 48, UCF 9
- Nov. 29: Texas Tech 49, West Virginia 0
- Big 12 Championship (Dec. 6): Texas Tech vs. BYU, 11 a.m.
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A Texas state trooper was killed in a crash in the Panhandle, becoming the 244th Texas Department of Public Safety officer to die in the line of duty since 1823, according to the agency.
Sergio Romero, 27, died Wednesday after a semi-truck pulled in front of him as he attempted a traffic stop around 4 p.m. on U.S. 287 in Childress County, DPS said.
In a statement, Col. Freeman F. Martin praised Romero’s courage, integrity, and service.
“Today, we grieve the loss of one of our own,” Martin said. “… Our hearts break alongside his family, friends, fellow troopers, and all who loved him. We will never forget the ultimate sacrifice he made in service of his fellow Texans.”
Romero previously served with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office before joining DPS as part of Class B-2025 in Childress, the agency said.
He is survived by his wife, Francisca, and their two young sons.
Funeral arrangements are pending. The crash remains under investigation.
Flash flood warning in Texas as streets fill with water
Flash flood warnings are active as heavy rain swamps roads across central Texas and rising waters pose danger to drivers.
Texas is keeping more than half of its counties under a state of emergency.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott renewed three statewide disaster declarations on Tuesday, June 16 — covering flooding, drought and border security — which together place 164 of the state’s 254 counties under emergency authority.
Each of the orders, signed by Abbott and filed with Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson, authorizes the use of “all available resources of state government and of political subdivisions that are reasonably necessary to cope with this disaster.”
Here’s a look at what the proclamations are for and which counties are under them.
Flood disaster from deadly 2025 Hill Country storms holds across 30 counties
On July 4, 2025, Abbott issued a disaster declaration following heavy rainfall and flooding that caused widespread and severe property damage, injury and loss of life in several counties.
The Camp Mystic flooding, which killed 27 campers and counselors, also occurred during this time frame. The original declaration included 21 counties located in the Texas Hill Country and the Concho Valley in the central part of the state.The disaster order has been renewed over the past year, expanding to include 30 counties in the June 2026 renewal and does the following:
- Suspends all laws that prevent the transfer of bodies to families as soon as possible.
- Suspends all laws regarding state agencies’ contracting or procurement rules that would impede its emergency response necessary to protect life or property threatened by the declared disaster.
- Temporarily suspended — with written approval from the governor’s office — laws that would prevent, hinder, or delay necessary action to respond to the disaster.
Drought disaster covers 111 Texas counties as wildfire risk persists
Abbott amended and renewed a drought disaster order originally issued on July 8, 2022, and it has been renewed several times over the past four years.
When it was originally signed, the order impacted 158 counties across the entire state, from the Texas Panhandle to the Permian Basin to the Texas Hill Country.
The original order states that the persistent drought conditions in the state have increased the wildfire threat in the region. The June 2026 renewal order states that the Texas Division of Emergency Management has confirmed that those same drought conditions persist; however, only 111 counties are listed in the renewed order.
The order does the following:
- Suspends all laws regarding state agencies’ contracting or procurement rules that would impede its emergency response necessary to protect life or property threatened by the declared disaster.
- Temporarily suspends — with written approval from the governor’s office — laws that would prevent, hinder, or delay necessary action to respond to the disaster.
Border security disaster spans 70 counties in fifth-year renewal
The original order was issued in May 2021 in response to a “surge of individuals unlawfully crossing the Texas-Mexico border posed an ongoing and imminent threat of disaster for a number of Texas counties.”
The original 2021 order affected 34 counties along the Texas border from El Paso to Brownsville, with Abbott saying it was in response to former President Joe Biden’s open-border policy.
“President Biden’s open-border policies have paved the way for dangerous gangs and cartels, human traffickers, and deadly drugs like fentanyl to pour into our communities,” Abbott said in a June 2021 statement. “Meanwhile, landowners along the border are seeing their property damaged and vandalized on a daily basis while the Biden Administration does nothing to protect them.
The order has been renewed and amended several times over the past five years, with the June 2026 order impacting 70 counties from El Paso through the Hill Country and the lower Rio Grande Valley.
The renewed order declares a state of disaster for those counties and for all state agencies impacted by the prescribed disaster.
Mateo Rosiles is the Texas Connect reporter for USA TODAY and its regional papers in Texas. Got a news tip for him? Email him at mrosiles@usatodayco.com.
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