CINCINNATI — Make that 10 wins on the year for BYU.

The Cougars went on the road and earned a hard-fought 26-14 win over Cincinnati Saturday night, moving to 10-1 on the season and getting dangerously close to clinching a Big 12 championship game berth.

3 takeaways

LJ Martin was a superstar. BYU’s bell cow set a new single-game personal best with 266 total yards — 222 rushing, 44 receiving — with two touchdown runs.

Most impressively, he surpassed his previous career-high (162 total yards) before the end of the third quarter.

When the Cougars desperately needed to put the Bearcats away in the fourth quarter, Martin kept churning forward and eventually broke off a 33-yard touchdown to ice the ballgame and sprinkle on some much-needed style points.

Heading into Saturday, many believed

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