Wide receivers coach Dallas Baker has never been shy about the expectations for his room. With a healthy balance of experienced veterans and rising stars, his goals for the team in the passing game are higher than ever before.
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“I think it’s really important that we win in this game, you know, to finish what we started,” head coach Dave Aranda said. “If we do that, it puts us in a good position for next year to go and win some more. We’ve really worked hard to win. This is going to be a tough game to win, but we need to win this game.”
Baylor football racked up 603 yards as it stormed past Kansas, 45-17, on Saturday afternoon at McLane Stadium. It was the first time Baylor accumulated more than 600 yards against a Big 12 opponent since Nov. 25, 2016, when the Bears totaled 634 against Texas Tech.
Despite turning the ball over three times, Baylor football held Houston without an offensive touchdown for the second consecutive week. The Bears extended their winning streak to five, tying their longest streak since 2021 with a 20-10 win Saturday night at TDECU Stadium in Houston.
Since hiring Spavital this offseason (and moving redshirt junior quarterback Sawyer Robertson into the starting lineup), Baylor’s offense has sped light years ahead of where it was a year ago. Jeff Grimes’ wide zone offense finished No. 101 nationally at 23.1 points per game. In less than a full season on the job, Spavital has the Bears up to No. 23 nationally and second in the Big 12 at 35.1 points per game.
Ten years from kicker Chris Callahan’s historic last-second game-winning field goal to knock off TCU 61-58, redshirt junior kicker Isaiah Hankins replicated the magic with a 33-yard field goal as time expired to help Baylor football knock off their in-state rival, 37-34, on Saturday night at McLane Stadium.
The 38-28 victory marked the Bears’ first Big 12 home win since Oct. 22, 2022.
Behind the most rushing yards in a single game in three years, Baylor football snapped an eight-game home losing streak to Big 12 opponents, knocking off Oklahoma State 38-28 on Saturday at McLane Stadium.
Cameron’s seven touchdown receptions this season are the most of any Baylor receiver since Tyquan Thornton in 2021. He’s on pace to become the Bears’ first-ever walk-on with double-digit receiving touchdowns in a season. It’s history in the making for the Big 12’s most electric walk-on.
On Texas Tech’s Homecoming weekend, Baylor football redshirt junior quarterback Sawyer Robertson returned to his hometown and became the first Bear to throw five touchdown passes in a game since Seth Russell in 2015. Behind Robertson’s big day, the green and gold snapped a nine-game losing streak against Big 12 schools dating back to 2023 as they took down the Red Raiders, 59-35, on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock.
Baylor football appears to have two main problems: it can’t start games, and it can’t finish games.
Allowing 21 unanswered points in the first 12 minutes of the game, Baylor football dug itself into a hole too big to overcome, falling to No. 22 BYU 34-28 on Saturday afternoon at McLane Stadium.
In Big 12 football, every week is another chance to prove yourself. For Baylor football, Saturday’s 11 a.m. matchup against No. 22 BYU at McLane Stadium isn’t just about bouncing back but also proving that losses won’t string together like they did in the previous two seasons.
Baylor football marched into Boulder looking to make a statement in front of a national audience. Instead, the prime-time duel was defined by Colorado’s improbable last-minute heroics which sealed a 38-31 overtime victory over the Bears on Saturday night at Folsom Field.
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 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.
The Bears led by two possessions with 11:00 left in the third quarter, but the Utes stormed back with 17-straight points to win the non-conference bout.
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.