PROVO — Like much of the ground under the west Texas oil fields, BYU’s undefeated season sunk in the Lubbock desert Saturday.

Cameron Dickey ran for 121 yards and a touchdown, and No. 8 Texas Tech handed seventh-ranked BYU its first loss, 29-7, Saturday afternoon at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.

Behren Morton threw for 219 and a touchdown, and Stone Harrington nailed five field goals for Texas Tech (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) to put itself back in the driver’s seat for a spot in the Big 12 championship game.

BYU, too, controls its own destiny for a berth in the conference title game Dec. 6 in Arlington, Texas. But the Cougars have no room for error, with a head-to-head tiebreaker over two-loss Utah, and a late-season tilt with one-loss Cincinnati still remaining.

More pressing is how the

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