In a game where BYU had to play almost perfectly to contend with No. 4 Texas Tech for the Big 12 championship, the No. 11 Cougars were far from it. Mistakes on both sides of the ball and in the kicking game spoiled BYU’s highly anticipated rematch that ended in a 34-7 Red Raiders victory.

“Obviously it hurts,” said senior receiver Chase Roberts. “You look back at all the different things that could have caused something like this, but they are a good team. They made plays and we didn’t execute the way we needed to.”

Carrying the same postseason aspirations that the Cougars took into Lubbock on Nov. 8 in a 29-7 defeat, BYU ran into the same suffocating Red Raider defense. After a series of similar breathtaking mistakes, the Cougars left with a similar result — and there were three key p

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