Run Game Powers Baylor as Bears Walk Off TCU, 37-34

[Ingram, Brent]

BAYLOR ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS – Nov. 2, 2024

Bears pull out 37-34 win over TCU on last-second FG by Hankins
Washington Rushes for Four TDs, Career-High 196 Yards

For more information contact: Brent Ingram; 210-845-8651, brent_ingram at baylor.edu<mailto:brent_ingram at baylor.edu>  or Max Calderone; 254-265-1639, max_calderone at baylor.edu<mailto:max_calderone at baylor.edu> or Josie Hutton; 254-709-7720,  josie_hutton at baylor.edu<mailto:josie_hutton at baylor.edu>

By Jerry Hill, BaylorBears.com

WACO, Texas -- Bryson Washington rushed for a career-high 196 yards and four touchdowns and got Baylor in position for Isaiah Hankins’ game-winning 33-yard field goal on the last play of the game as the Bears knocked off TCU, 37-34, Saturday night at McLane Stadium.

This came on a night when Baylor was honoring its 2013 and ’14 Big 12 championship teams, a run that included a memorable 61-58 win over TCU on a last-second field goal.

Sawyer Robertson, who threw for 242 yards, converted a fourth-down play with a 15-yard pass to tight end Michael Trigg before Washington had a 13-yard burst up the middle down to the Frogs’ 16.

Hankins, who missed an extra point earlier in the game, got the ultimate redemption with his game-winner splitting the uprights as the final seconds ticked off the clock.

Baylor ran its winning streak to three-straight and improves to 5-4 overall and 3-3 in the Big 12, while TCU (5-4, 3-3) has an identical record after seeing its two-game winning streak snapped.

In a back-and-forth second half, Baylor tied it up twice on touchdown runs of 1 by Dawson Pendergrass and 35 by Washington, his third of the game. That deadlocked the game at 27-27 early in the fourth quarter.

After the Bears went up 34-27 on Washington’s fourth TD run of the night, the Frogs answered quickly and tied it up on Jack Bech’s second touchdown reception of the night, this one from 24 yards out. Hoover threw for 333 yards and two touchdowns, while Bech hauled in five catches for 98 yards.

With 1:55 and all three timeouts left, Baylor picked up one first down on three-straight Washington runs and another one on Robertson’s 14-yard throw to Josh Cameron.

Going for it on 4th-and-9 from TCU’s 44 with 16 seconds left, Robertson connected with Trigg over the middle and then Washington did the rest with his bull-like run up the middle to set up Hankins’ game-winner.

The Bears trailed 17-13 at the half, giving up 10 answered points on a 46-yard field goal by Kyle Lemmermann and a one-yard QB sneak by Josh Hoover in the final minute of the second quarter.

TCU struck first on Hoover’s eight-yard TD pass to Jordyn Bailey, capping a seven-play, 95-yard drive that included a 28-yard pass to Savion Williams and a 40-yarder to tight end DJ Rogers.

But Baylor answered right back with a 10-play, 65-yard scoring drive, picking up 11 yards on a pass to Josh Cameron and another 16 on a pass to Michael Trigg. Washington finished it off with the first of his career-high four touchdown runs, this one from eight yards out to tie it up at 7-7.

Set up by a 14-yard punt return by Cameron, the Bears took just four plays to go 64 yards and scored on a 40-yard TD run around the right end for their first lead of the game. But after a false-start penalty, Isaiah Hankins missed the extra point wide right, the score remaining 13-7.

Baylor finished with 499 yards total offense, including its third-straight game with more than 250 yards rushing – 257 yards on 44 attempts.

After a bye next week, Baylor will be on the road for its next two games, playing West Virginia (5-3, 2-2) on Nov. 16 in Morgantown and then Houston (4-5, 3-3) on Nov. 23. The Mountaineers were off on Saturday, while the Cougars stunned 17th-ranked Kansas State, 24-19.

- BaylorBears.com -


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Brent Ingram | Associate AD for Communications
Baseball Sport Program Administrator
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 210-845-8651

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