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At the start of the 2014 season, Baylor head coach Art Briles casted a vision for his team. Briles made it clear that Baylor football is gunning for a repeat of winning the Big 12 Conference title, no excuses.

The Cotton Bowl is one of the most storied bowl games in all of college football. Since its inaugural year in 1937, the Cotton Bowl has featured some of college football’s greatest teams and games of all-time, but took years for it to develop into the prestigious bowl it now has become.

Senior quarterback Bryce Petty watched on the sidelines and saw teammate and Heisman trophy winner Robert Griffin III go down in the team’s shootout against Texas Tech on Nov. 26, 2011. Griffin had suffered a concussion and would not return to the game.

No. 5 Baylor football provided fans with a memorable game day experience on Saturday at McLane Stadium. ESPN’S College GameDay built by Home Depot made an appearance in Waco in its final show of the regular season.

One of the nation’s most explosive offenses faced trials and tribulations in 2014, but successfully defended its Big 12 title and lived up to the “Nation’s Top Offense” title given to it by popular opinion.

The 12-member College Football Playoff selection committee will gather Saturday in Texas to watch the final weekend of the season play out and then rank the top 25 teams in the country. The top four will compete for the national championship in the sport’s first ever playoff.

When head coach Art Briles arrived in Waco six years ago, the Baylor football team hadn’t gone anywhere in the Big 12 conference. Briles’ first season as the Bears’ leader was dismal, and the team went 2-6 in conference play.

The top four in the College Football Playoff rankings going into the final weekend of the regular season is as follows: Alabama, Oregon, TCU and Florida State.

Over Thanksgiving break, No. 7 Baylor football gave Baylor Nation something to be thankful for. The Bears escaped the jaws of defeat against Texas Tech in a 48-46 shootout to keep playoff hopes and a shot at winning back-to-back Big 12 Championships very much alive.