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Eyeing a bounce back after being swept on Tuesday, No. 18 Baylor volleyball opened the 13th annual Baylor Invitational by taking down LSU in a four-set thriller — 25-16, 23-25, 25-21, 30-28 — on Thursday night at the Ferrell Center.

With a blackout on the horizon, Baylor football will look to break the nation’s second-longest home losing streak to FBS opponents when it clashes with Air Force in a rematch of the 2022 Armed Forces Bowl, one of the coldest bowl games in college football history, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at McLane Stadium.

In the second year of her Baylor career, Murphy has established herself as a dominant presence on the court. Whether she’s in practice or in a match, every rep is about improvement.

Baylor’s Liubov “Luba” Kostenko, a Ukrainian tennis phenom, was born to be a star.

The Mustangs, ranked No. 26 in the latest AVCA poll, swept the Bears 25-21, 25-15, 25-16.

The Big 12’s newest sport is women’s lacrosse, slated to start in 2025. Baylor has yet to join but has an interested club team — though it’s not the one you’d think.

It was the second full week of Big 12 sports, as Baylor played host to the Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge and traveled on the road with other teams. But since it’s the heat of football season, here’s everything else you may have missed in Baylor Athletics over the weekend.

The Bears fell one hit short of a reverse sweep.

Baylor lost to the Utes in Salt Lake City, 23-12, but began to shake off the frost built up over the past two seasons.

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.