To put it lightly, when Baylor football first went to the Texas Bowl in 2010, it was a big deal. It marked Baylor’s first bowl game appearance since 1994. Baylor nation was happy just to go to a bowl game, never mind actually winning it. But times have changed in Waco. The Bears have won two straight bowl games with the Alamo Bowl against Washington in 2011 and the Holiday Bowl versus UCLA in 2012.
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As the NFL season comes to an end after the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, the NFL teams will be looking back on their season trying to figure out what adjustments they need to make for next season.
With construction of the Baylor Stadium under way, fans now have a chance to help piece the stadium together.
Baylor Bricks is a new marketing campaign set up by University Development that allows fans to purchase bricks to be inlaid in the stadium’s walkway.
The brick campaign is one that is evident in other Baylor staples such as the Bill and Eva Williams Bear Habitat and the Dutch Schroeder Athletic Plaza.
When the San Francisco 49ers play their brand of football, they cannot be beaten. In all but one of their losses this year, their opponent jumped out to a quick lead and San Francisco couldn’t regroup and get back into the football game.
The Baylor Bears defeated the Oklahoma State Cowboys 64-54 on Monday at the Ferrell Center. With the win, Baylor improved to 4-1 within the Big 12 Conference and 13-5 overall. Baylor’s next Big 12 game will be on the road Saturday against TCU.
The No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears defeated West Virginia 76-58 In front of 10,245 fans at the Ferrell Center. Baylor moves to 16-1 on the season with the win and 6-0 in conference play.
The Baylor Bears basketball team easily defeated the Hardin-Simmons Cowboys by a score of 107-38 on Saturday at the Ferrell Center. The Bears jumped off to a quick start and never looked back.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Baylor came into Allen Fieldhouse planning to score in the lane. Instead, Kansas buckled down in…
Baylor’s first Big 12 road trip of the year outside Texas couldn’t break the Lady Bears’ metronomic streak of blowouts.
Pierre Jackson and the Baylor Bears got exactly the kind of grinding game they expected from TCU.
Robert Griffin had his lateral collateral ligament repaired and his ACL reconstructed for a second time. The surgery was performed in Florida by orthopedist James Andrews, who was optimistic that Griffin would be back on the field this fall.
Brittney Griner scored the game’s first five points and finished with 23 as the Lady Bears beat Iowa State 67-39 Wednesday in their first game since regaining the No. 1 spot in this week’s poll.
Baylor is back where it started the season — No. 1.
Brooklyn Pope scored 18 points and Brittney Griner added 14 points and 10 rebounds to help second-ranked Baylor beat No.13 Oklahoma State, 83-49 on Sunday.
Kayla McBride scored 21 points and Skylar Diggins added 19 to help No. 5 Notre Dame upset top-ranked Connecticut 73-72 on Saturday in the Big East conference opener for both teams.
Pierre Jackson scored 11 of his 24 points, including nine free throws, in overtime, and Cory Jefferson made the tiebreaking free throws with 50 seconds remaining as Baylor beat the Longhorns 86-79 without head coach Scott Drew on the sideline.
Everybody wondered how Nick Florence was going to follow Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III.
SAN DIEGO – The Baylor Bears will travel back home to celebrate the new year as the champions of the Bridgeport Education Holiday Bowl.
SAN DIEGO – At the end of the third quarter, Baylor maintains a commanding 42-13 lead.
SAN DIEGO – Bears lead No. 17 UCLA Bruins 35-10 at halftime of the Bridgeport Education Holiday Bowl.
SAN DIEGO – The Baylor Bears got off to a hot start against the UCLA Bruins and currently lead 14-0.
Nearly 300 Baylor University students will board six “Baylor-wrapped” buses Wednesday morning in Waco for the 1,300-mile trip to San Diego, all to support the Baylor football team in its Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl game versus the UCLA Bruins.
Brittney Griner scored the first six points of the game and third-ranked Baylor had the first 17, extending its home winning streak to 45 in a row with a 76-53 victory over 10th-ranked Tennessee on Tuesday night.
San Diego is famous for a lot of things. Sunshine, beautiful landscapes, Ron Burgundy and the Bridgeport Education Holiday Bowl are just naming a few of the great things that this city has to offer.
With 5:11 remaining in the final game at Floyd Casey Stadium and a seven-point Baylor lead, sophomore Lache Seastrunk broke through the line of scrimmage at the Baylor 24-yard line and saw the light of the Promised Land.
Halfway to the end zone, Seastrunk caught a cramp in his left hamstring. At this point, he had two options: he could fall down in pain or believe that he could finish and take the rock to the house.
The spread offense is commonly associated with accurate quarterbacks and athletic wide receivers, but this year’s Baylor football team is showing that great running backs can thrive in a five-wide set.
When he was coming out of Midway High School in nearby Hewitt, Baylor junior nickel back Ahmad Dixon could have chosen to go to pretty much any school in the nation. He was ranked as the No. 15 national recruit by ESPNU 150 and had scholarship offers from Alabama, Texas, USC and pretty much everywhere else in between. Instead of bolting for a glamorous, prestigious program, Dixon decided to stay home and head to Baylor, who was just coming off of a 4-8 season.
Under first year head coach Jim Mora, UCLA Bruins football is back on the map.
The UCLA Bruins finished the regular season with a 9-4 record and posted a 6-3 record in Pacific-12 Conference games.
Baylor football can finally say it beat the Oklahoma State Cowboys, 41-34.
“Last year, we had a great season, outstanding season, Heisman trophy winner and all that kind of stuff, but I wouldn’t trade this season for the world,” sophomore nickel back Ahmad Dixon said. “These seniors and these other guys that are here with me, we have grown tremendously, speaking for myself not just as a football player but as a young man. These guys, in our down times have taught me so much. Looking to these guys when I needed them, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”
Last season, the Baylor men’s basketball team fell in the Elite Eight to the eventual national champion Kentucky Wildcats.
Even though every starter from that Kentucky team is gone, the Bears will still get their shot at revenge at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Lexington, Ky.
The Bears have stumbled out of the gate so far with a 4-2 record.
