BYU Cougars vs Texas Tech Red Raiders Prediction, Odds and Picks for Saturday, 11/08/25

Saturday is a loaded college football slate, but probably nothing is more important than a clash between a pair of top-10 teams as the BYU Cougars face the Texas Tech Red Raiders. This is an 11am local kickoff, with College GameDay on campus to add to the energy. The Cougars are undefeated, overperforming expectations thus far, while the Red Raiders are a legitimate powerhouse by my estimation, but they already carry a loss. The loss came at Arizona State, while Tech was missing its QB and Arizona State still had theirs. Context matters in college football. I am all aboard with this Red Raider team. It is not that I think BYU is bad, but more that I think Texas Tech is up there with the best teams in the country. I don’t love that the spread has gotten as high as it has, but I will still take Texas Tech -10.

Let’s start with BYU. This is a team with a flashy freshman QB (who wears #47 and drives purists nuts), who can both run and throw well, but he also can be forced into mistakes. BYU is a strong team who can bully most teams in the trenches, and that is their style of play. They might be undefeated, but they have struggled on the road against Colorado and Arizona, and narrowly survived rival Utah at home, all of those as one-possession games. It feels like they are living on borrowed time.

The Red Raiders are not a team you can bully in the trenches. Their defense in particular is a bully themselves, and they have put the clamps on several better offenses already this year. Their lone loss came when Behren Morton was out, and I think this offense will put up points on BYU just like they have everyone else. The one concern with Tech is that they sometimes struggle to finish drives, settling for far too many FGs, which hurts our confidence in the cover. But this Red Raider team is the real deal, with the athletes to compete with anyone in the country. They are playing at home in a must-win situation with College GameDay in the front yard. This team will be amped, and I think they roll. Give me the Red Raiders to cover.

BYU vs Texas Tech Prediction: Texas Tech -10 (-110) available at the time of publishing. Playable at that number.