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After allowing 17 points and 151 total yards in the first quarter, the Bears (1-1) held the Utes (2-0) without another offensive touchdown and just 141 total yards for the rest of the game. Rising, a seventh-year college quarterback, was taken out of the game with 1:47 left in the second quarter after colliding with Gatorade coolers on the sidelines. Without Rising in the game, Utah only recorded 99 yards of offense.

The green and gold toppled the Golden Gophers in a thrilling fifth-set upset Friday night at the Ferrell Center.

Despite trailing at halftime, Baylor soccer managed to bring it back and take down SMU 2-1 Thursday night in Dallas at Washburne Stadium, thanks to another game-winning goal from junior forward Tyler Isgrig.

The jitters are gone for Baylor football after sprinting into the season with a dominant victory. Lingering around the corner, though, is a road test against No. 11 Utah, which offers the Bears a chance to storm back into the national limelight. Kickoff is slated for 2:30 p.m. on Saturday at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City.

The Bears heading into the fourth year of their showdown with Minnesota and Wisconsin. This time, they’re undefeated.

For most fans of the green and gold, football season starts when hundreds of jersey-clad freshmen rush the field to fill “That Good Old Baylor Line.” For members of the Golden Wave Band, however, it starts in the sweltering August heat across from the Baylor Science Building a week before classes begin.

Sitting at 4-1 through the first five games of the season, Baylor Soccer is off to its best start since the 2017 season when it opened the season 4-0-1, in great part due to junior goalkeeper Azul Alvarez.

Baylor men’s tennis has been known to feature funny, energetic and emotional players who light up the court with excitement. Seniors Oskar Brostrom Poulsen and Marko Miladinović are no different.

The Bears stay undefeated ahead of this weekend’s Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge.

From the turf to the court, Baylor Athletics is back in the swing of things with three season openers placed firmly in the rearview mirror. With all eyes on Baylor football’s 45-3 win over Tarleton State at McLane Stadium, here is everything else you may have missed.

An offseason overhaul of the roster and coaching staff has positioned this team to, at the very least, bring back fair-weather fans.

With 22 transfers making their Baylor football debut, fresh faces wasted no time writing their way into the record book. Led by sixth-year senior quarterback Dequan Finn, four transfers each scored a touchdown to lead the Bears to a season-opening 45-3 win over Tarleton Saturday night on the 10th anniversary of the first game played at McLane Stadium.

With dominant offense and stifling defense, the Bears open the season with back-to-back sweeps of ACU and Tulsa.

Baylor Soccer continued its victory march on Friday night with a huge win against Texas A&M at Betty Lou Mays Field.

The Texans’ head coach reflects on nationally televised games, moving up to Division I and the upcoming game against Baylor.

Since the beginning of sport culture, head coaches have found unique ways to hype up their teams in the weeks leading up to a big game. Some coaches stand in front of their team and deliver a long winded motivational speech, while others lean on guest speakers. However, leading up to the 2024 season’s kickoff, Baylor football head coach Dave Aranda opted to use a different medium to get his point across…

Every year, Baylor volleyball head coach Ryan McGuyre chooses a word to define the season. Some years he thinks of it months before the season, in others, it reveals itself closer to the start of play. In his 10th year leading the Bears, he’s chosen TRUST as the name of the game: Triumphant, Refuel, Unity, Steadfast and True grit.

Baylor soccer is back from its trip to Hawaii, and the Bears brought two wins back with them. Now, the green and gold are preparing to take one more when they host Texas A&M at 8 p.m. Friday night at Betty Lou Mays Field.

Since McLane Stadium opened its doors to the banks of the Brazos, Baylor football has racked up two Big 12 Championships, four bowl games and 37 victories. Exactly 10 years from the first kickoff at McLane, the Bears will add more history, hosting Tarleton State to celebrate a decade at the home of the green and gold.

Our love for athletics was never just about the game – it was about the people, places and moments that ground us into a greater story.

After being named the starting quarterback less than two weeks before Baylor football’s season kickoff against Tarleton State, sixth-year senior Dequan Finn put on his pads and kept grinding.

The fall sports schedule is here as Baylor soccer is already underway and three other Bear sports are set to open up their seasons this weekend. The first on campus events officially get going on Friday with volleyball and soccer, while football kicks off on Saturday.

After a tough 2023 season, Baylor football is back with an overhauled offense and a high-energy offensive line, poised to significantly impact the upcoming season.

The coaching overhaul and personnel additions have poised the Bears’ offense to be much more explosive than in the past couple of years. The Bears should come into the fall with their eyes set on bowl games and beyond.

The stage is set, and the cards are on the table as the 2024 NCAA football season begins. With Week 0 in the rearview mirror, Big 12 football on the Brazos is on deck. Here are some of the Lariat Sports Desk’s predictions for Baylor football in a make-or-break season.

The Biletnikoff Award is given to the season’s most outstanding receiver, with the most recent winner being Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr. Winning the praise wouldn’t be new for a Bear, as in 2015, Baylor wide receiver Corey Coleman took home the hardware. Bringing the award back to Waco may not be too big of a stretch with offensive coordinator Jake Spavital’s Air Raid offense inducing a heavy dose of passing.

When redshirt sophomore Keaton Thomas lays his head on his pillow at night, the X’s and O’s of head coach Dave Aranda’s unique defensive playbook flicker like an old movie on repeat.

As the Bears prepare for the 2024 season, the focus is on improving, and no one feels this more than the secondary. After a down season that highlighted strengths and areas for improvement, head coach Dave Aranda made it clear that intensity will be the key to preparation.

Just one week before the season, Baylor football named Toledo transfer Dequan Finn its starting quarterback over former Mississippi State transfer Sawyer Robertson.

After losing most of 2023 to a season-ending knee injury, Garrison Grimes looks to continue Baylor’s elite long-snapping legacy.