In the final week of non-conference play for three Baylor sports, the Bears combined to go 2-0-1 over the weekend, in addition to strong Olympic sports performances. Baylor football successfully blacked out McLane Stadium, but here’s everything else you may have missed in Baylor Athletics over the weekend.
Browsing: Air Force Falcons
The former Mississippi State quarterback needs to become the Bears’ full-time starter.
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.
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.
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 Horned Frogs beat the Bears for the eighth time in nine seasons.
Despite losing redshirt junior quarterback Blake Shapen to injury (MCL), the Bears may have their best room at the position in years.
The Bears lost to the Bobcats for the first time in program history, propelling Texas State to its first win over a Power Five school.
Entering the 2023 season, the Bears are not in the national spotlight like they were a year ago. Instead, the restrained preseason pressure has given them a chance to ignore outside noise and work on their culture.
Seven former Bears earned free agent contracts or minicamp invites while defensive lineman Siaki “Apu” Ika was drafted by the Cleveland Browns.
Head coach Dave Aranda’s new defensive coordinator, Powledge, couldn’t stay away for long.
The Bears finished their second day of spring practice on Thursday, and assistant coach and quarterbacks coach Shawn Bell embraced the quarterback competition.
Aranda said redshirt junior quarterback Blake Shapen and redshirt sophomore quarterback Sawyer Robertson will be at the forefront of the position battle.
Here is everything you may have missed over the long winter break.
In one of the coldest kickoffs in college football history, Baylor was trounced 30-15 at the hands of Air Force Thursday night in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth.
Kickoff temperature for the 2022 Armed Forces Bowl was one degree off the record for coldest bowl game in college football history.
It’ll be one of the coldest kickoffs in Baylor football history when the Bears take on the Falcons in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl.
The Big East said Friday it has been notified that West Virginia is leaving the conference and joining the Big 12.