{"id":398463,"date":"2025-11-23T05:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398463\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:25:11","slug":"no-11-byu-runs-past-cincinnati-to-inch-closer-to-big-12-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398463\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 11 BYU runs past Cincinnati to inch closer to Big 12 title game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2014 With a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/article\/51406779\/heres-how-byu-can-clinch-a-big-12-championship-game-berth-this-weekend\" rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chance to clinch a spot in the Big 12 championship game<\/a>, either mathematically or effectively, the 11th-ranked BYU football ran, then ran so far, and ran so far away.<\/p>\n<p>At a school that once revolutionized the passing game under Hall of Fame coach LaVell Edwards, one of the late legend&#8217;s former fullbacks is bringing the power-run game back in style.<\/p>\n<p>LJ Martin ran for a career-high 222 yards, and quarterback Bear Bachmeier added 46 yards and a touchdown on the ground to help the Cougars escape the Queen City with a 26-14 win over Cincinnati in front of an announced crowd of 38,034 fans at Nippert Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars (10-1, 6-1 Big 12) gave up plenty of yards to a Cincinnati offense in its regular-season home finale.<\/p>\n<p>But the Bearcats scored 0 points on four drives inside the 25-yard line, including a late fumble recovered by linebacker Isaiah Glasker at the BYU 17 in their third straight loss.<\/p>\n<p>That, combined with 265 of their 392 offensive yards on the ground, propelled BYU to the cusp of the Big 12 championship game.<\/p>\n<p>Bachmeier also threw for 127 yards, completing 15 passes on a night top receiver Chase Roberts missed all but the first minutes of the contest. Parker Kingston had seven catches to lead the Cougars&#8217; receivers for 39 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Sorsby threw for 300 yards with two touchdowns to lead Cincinnati, but also delivered a pinpoint pass to BYU safety Tanner Wall to open the second half.<\/p>\n<p>His 19-yard strike to Jeff Caldwell pulled the Bearcats (7-4, 5-3 Big 12) within 20-14 with 4:37 remaining, but the Cougars added another score with a minute left to play to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 With a chance to clinch a spot in the Big 12 championship game, either mathematically or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[419,418,407,1318,421,420,425,1317,1315,1316,50,422,423,62,399,314,67,132,68,424,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-398463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-classifieds","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homes","13":"tag-jobs","14":"tag-local","15":"tag-ncaa","16":"tag-ncaa-football","17":"tag-ncaafootball","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-radio","20":"tag-salt-lake","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-traffic","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-utah","28":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115597352867830073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}