{"id":1030776,"date":"2026-10-18T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1030776\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:45:20","slug":"byu-opens-as-single-digit-favorite-vs-ucf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1030776\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU Opens as Single-Digit Favorite vs UCF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After a historic and emotional win over Notre Dame in Provo, BYU travels across the country next week versus a UCF team that was on bye this week. Lines are out for week 8 games and BYU as of this publishing is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnetwork.com\/ncaaf-game\/byu-ucf-score-odds-october-24-2026\/289666\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7.5-point road favorite over UCF<\/a>. The line opened at 9.5 and quickly moved towards UCF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UCF is 3-3 and 1-2 in the Big 12. After a 3-1 start, UCF has lost it\u2019s last two games, both on the road. UCF lost 27-17 at a top 20 Houston team and 42-28 versus Oklahoma State, another ranked opponent. FIU QB transfer Keyone Jenkins has started the last three games and given UCF\u2019s passing game a little spark. The Knights\u2019 defense has been mostly good this season, but allowed a high-powered Oklahoma State offense to pull away from them last game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This screams let down spot for BYU, going two time zones after a historic win versus a UCF win coming off a bye. BYU is certainly the better team, but UCF is more than capable of hanging around if BYU isn\u2019t buttoned up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a historic and emotional win over Notre Dame in Provo, BYU travels across the country next week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1030777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[4385,7],"class_list":["post-1030776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-byu-football","tag-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117461275331087899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}