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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS – Oct. 13, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Bears Look to Stretch Road Win Streak to Six, Travel to TCU</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">Baylor has Won 10 of its last 12 Regular Season Games<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Brent Ingram; 210-845-8651, </span><a href="mailto:brent_ingram@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">brent_ingram@baylor.edu</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">
</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">or Max Calderone; 254-265-1639,
</span><a href="mailto:max_calderone@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">max_calderone@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> Josie Hutton; 254-709-7720,
</span><a href="mailto:josie_hutton@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">josie_hutton@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt">;
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">or Matt Roberts; 254-227-2280, </span><a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">WM_Roberts@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt">
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WACO, Texas --</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Winners of 10 of its last 13 games, and eight of its last nine conference games,
Baylor football will travel to face TCU with a five-game road winning streak on the line, with kickoff on Saturday slated for 11 a.m. The game will be televised live on ESPN2 and will be broadcast live on the Baylor Sports Media Network.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The game will be voiced on ESPN2 by Lowell Galindo (play-by-play), Aaron Murray (analyst) and Lauren Sisler (sideline). On the Baylor Sports Media Network, John Morris (play-by-play),
Nick Florence (analyst) and Ricky Thompson (sideline) will call the action. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Baylor (4-2, 2-1 Big 12 Conference) will face off with TCU (4-2, 1-2 Big 12) in the most played rivalry game in the state of Texas, with the outing marking the 121<sup>st</sup>
meeting in the series. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Bears enter the game in the midst of one of the hottest stretches in program history. Baylor has won eight of its last nine conference games, have won 10 of its last 13
games – including 10 of 12 in the regular-season – and only have losses during the streak to Auburn, LSU and defending conference champion Arizona State. It marks the fifth such stretch in program history, when the Bears have won at least eight of nine conference
games, also coming in 1979, 1984-85, 2012-13, 2014-15 and 2018-19. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">SCOUTING THE FROGS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• TCU enters the matchup fresh off a 41-28 loss at Kansas State to own a 4-2 record and a 1-2 mark in Big 12 Conference play. The Frogs have wins over North Carolina, Abilene
Christian, SMU and Colorado, falling in a 27-24 matchup at Arizona State before the K-State loss.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• TCU averages 35.3 points, 439 yards, including 322.3 passing and 116.7 rushing, as a team in 2025. Opponents are averaging 24.7 points, 372.8 yards, 240.7 passing and 132.2
rushing yards per game. The Frogs own a eye-popping 54% conversion rate on third downs.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• QB Josh Hoover is in passing throwing for 1,893 yards with 18 TDs and six interceptions as one of the nation’s most highly touted signal callers. Jordan Dwyer leads the team
with 25 catches for 357 yards, while Eric McAlister has a team-high seven TDs on just 21 catches, good for 541 yards. UTSA transfer Kevorian Barnes has toted it 49 times for 285 yards with one TD. Trent Battle has added 159 yards rushing and three TDs. Jamal
Johnson and Kaleb Elarms-Orr lead the team with 48 tackles each. Johnson has a team-leading three interceptions.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• TCU is coached by Sonny Dykes, who is in his fourth year as the head coach for the Frogs after spending four years as the head coach at SMU. Dykes went 30-18 at SMU, including
a 25-10 mark over his last three seasons, helping direct the Mustangs to 465.9 yards per game offensively in 2021, 13th-best in the nation. Dykes previously served as the head coach at Cal for four years (2013-16), and three years at Louisiana Tech (2010-12).
He served as an assistant at Arizona, under Mike Stoops, Texas Tech, under Mike Leach, and Kentucky, under Air Raid inventor Hal Mumme. Dykes and Baylor Coach Dave Aranda served on the same staff at Texas Tech, where Dykes was the receivers coach while Aranda
was a graduate assistant from 2000-02.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Andy Avalos is in his second season as the defensive coordinator at TCU after previously serving three years as the head coach at Boise State, where he was named the Mountain
West Coach of the Year in 2022 with a 10-4 record. He previously served as the defensive coordinator at Oregon (2019-20) and Boise State (2016-18), in addition to time on the staff at Colorado (2006-08), Sacramento State (2011) and Nebraska-Kearney (2009-10).
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Kendal Briles, the son of former Baylor head coach Art Briles, is in his third season as the associate head coach and offensive coordinator, after spending the three years
in the same role at Arkansas. Kendal was on the Baylor staff for nine years. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• A.J. Ricker is the fourth-year co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach who previously spent two years at SMU, following time at Kansas (2018), and serving as offensive
analyst at Oklahoma State (2017) and Houston (2018), also coaching the offensive line at Missouri (2014-15). Malcom Kelly serves as the assistant head coach, a role he has had since March of 2019, after coaching two seasons at Houston as a GA and analyst (2017-18).
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">CONNECTING THE TEAMS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Baylor at TCU have several connections, most notably that BU head coach Dave Aranda and TCU head coach Sonny Dykes served on the same Mike Leach staff at Texas Tech from
2000-02. TCU OC Kendal Briles spent nearly a decade on the Baylor staff working for his father, Art, serving as the inside receivers coach from 2008-11, receivers coach from 2012-14 and as the offensive coordinator from 2015-16. Assistant AD for Football Human
Performance Kaz Kazadi worked on the strength staff at Baylor from 2008-16. TCU linebackers coach Josh Bookbinder is the grandson of BU legendary head coach Grant Teaff, and was the defensive QC for Baylor from 2019-21 and is a 2009 Baylor graduate. First-year
WR coach Corey Coleman won the 2015 Biletnikoff Award as the nation’s top receiver for the Bears, earning a pair of All-America honors, part of a career where he set the school record for TD coaches in a season and career. Safeties coach Brian Norwood was
the associate head coach and safeties coach at Baylor from 2008-14. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Baylor first year defensive pass-game coordinator and cornerbacks coach Paul Gonzales spent the 2012-24 seasons on the defensive staff at TCU, spanning a pair of coaches.
Gonzales was a GA in 2012-14, was CBs coach from 2015-17 and coached the safeties from 2018-24.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• BU tight ends coach Jarrett Anderson spent the 1998-2021 seasons on the staff at TCU, a 24-year tenure with the Frogs that saw him serve as a GA, WR coach (2009-13), co-offensive
coordinator/TEs (2009-13), OL (2014-16), IWR/TE (2017-19) and OL (2020-21). He earned his graduate degree from TCU in 2000.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">LAST MEETING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Baylor won its third straight as part of a six-game win streak to end the year, using a thrilling finish to edge TCU 37-34 in 2024 in front of the first blackout crowd since
2017 at McLane Stadium. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• In a back-and-forth thriller the Bears earned their first win over TCU at home since 2014, using a furious rushing attack that saw RB Bryson Washington rush for 196 yards
and four TDs - including 12 carries for 96 yards and two TDs in the fourth quarter. The Bears rolled to 31 first downs and 499 yards of total offense, including 257 on the ground. QB Sawyer Robertson threw for 242 yards and rushed nine times for 28 yards.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• TCU took a 17-13 lead into halftime as QB Josh Hoover rushed and threw for a TD and the Frogs nailed a 46-yard field goal. After a field goal to open the final stanza, the
Bears answered with a 75-play drive to even the game on a Dawson Pendergrass TD rush. The teams then traded TDs until Washington’s fourth TD of the game came to cap an 81-play drive with 4:54 left in the fourth quarter. TCU drove 75 yards to even the game
at 34 with a Jack Bech TD pass with 2:59 left. Baylor then drove 59 plays - including a key fourth and nine conversion pass to Michael Trigg at midfield and set up for the game-winning 33-yard field goal from Hankins as time expired, setting off a joyous celebration
that saw the field rushed in jubilation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">THE 2023 MEETING IN FTW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Baylor suffered a 42-17 loss at TCU to complete its road schedule in 2023 with a 2-2 mark.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• TCU got 412 yards and two TDs passing from Josh Hoover, who added a rushing TD, with Emani Bailey rushing for two scores and 52 yards.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Baylor saw Dominic Richardson catch a TD from Blake Shapen, Richardson’s first TD as a Bear, and rush for 71 yards. Shapen threw and rushed for a score, completing 20 of
30 passes. TE Drake Dabney broke the BU single-season record for receiving yards with a four catch, 77-yard game.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Linebacker Matt Jones totaled 11 tackles to lead the defense.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">SERIES HISTORY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• TCU leads the all-time series, 59-54-7 with Baylor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• TCU has won four of the last five meetings, with Baylor winning in 2024.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• The meeting will be the 121st all-time meeting in the series, the most-played rivalry game in the state of Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">STUDENT GOVERNMENTS ELECT TO CALL THIS THE BLUEBONNET BATTLE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• In 2023, the student governments of Baylor and TCU banded together to create a new name for the Baylor-TCU football game, dubbing it the Bluebonnet Battle.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• The athletics department leadership from both schools were active in discussions with the Big 12 Conference regarding the new scheduling matrix with the growth of the league,
working in an effort to maintain the game as an annual protected rivalry. The league announced that the game would be one of just four protected games in the league scheduling model.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• The game will be played for the 121st time on Saturday, marking the most-played game in the state of Texas.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• From the SGAs 2023 press release announcing the game: The Bluebonnet Battle trophy will be a circular battle shield, hand forged in steel by Baylor alumnus Bryant Stanton
of Stanton Studios in Waco, Texas. The face of the shield will feature the logos of both universities, the outline of the State of Texas, adorned with Bluebonnets on either side and boldly displaying the rivalry’s official name. It will be two-and-a-half feet
wide and rest in a mesquite wooden base adorned with the lone star of Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">JACOB REDDING STARS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Baylor sophomore safety Jacob Redding has emerged as one of the best players on the defense, earning a starting job early in the year and consistently making big plays for
the Bears. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Redding announced himself as more than just a former walk-on in the comeback win at SMU, picking off a red-zone pass that helped fuel the comeback. Following that game it
has been pure confidence building for the native of New Braunfels, Texas, all coming to a head in the comeback win over Kansas State. Redding picked off a pass, with the Bears trailing by sixth late in the fourth quarter, and motored 66 yards for a pick-6
to give BU its first lead since the second quarter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Redding was named the Burlsworth Trophy Walk-On of the Week following the performance and graded as by PFF as Baylor’s highest rated defender in the win, with a 91.7 mark.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">SAWDAWG’S ACCOLADE LIST GROWS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Sawyer Robertson’s season accolade list continues to grow as the nation is taking notice of the nation’s leading passer.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">
</span><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Robertson Awards in 2025
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Week 5 - Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Week 5 - Davey O’Brien Award Great 8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Week 5 - Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Honorable Mention<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Week 2 - AP National Player of the Week<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Week 2 - Walter Camp Award National Offensive Player of the Week<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Week 2 - Davey O’Brien Award National Quarterback of the Week<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Week 2 - Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Week 2 - Manning Award Stars of the Week<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Week 2 - Davey O’Brien Award Great 8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Week 2 - Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Honorable Mention<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Davey O’Brien Award Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch List
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Maxwell Award Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Manning Award Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> William V. Campbell Trophy Semifinalist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Wuerffel Trophy Watch List
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Senior Bowl Top 300 List<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">TRIGG’S CASE FOR MACKEY AWARD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Baylor senior Michael Trigg is making a case for the John Mackey Award, given to the nation’s top tight end. The senior leads the nation among TEs with receptions, yards
and TDs. His showing in the comeback win over K-State featured the top play on SportsCenter, a one-handed lefty grab that helped drive a late-fourth quarter score.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BAYLOR RALLIES PAST KANSAS STATE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Baylor won its second straight game with a furious fourth-quarter comeback to top Kansas State 35-34 at McLane Stadium.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• The Bears saw an early lead and a halftime tie erased with 21 straight points from K-State, including two straight TDs to own a 31-17 margin midway through the fourth quarter.
Baylor responded with a quick three-play, 82 yard drive with 8:50 left in the fourth, using a pair of dynamic catches from Michael Trigg, to cut the lead, converting a two-point conversion to narrow the lead to six. After allowing a pair of gutting third-down
conversions to the Cats on the ensuing drive, Jacob Redding picked off a third-down pass and rumbled 66 yards for a score to give the Bears a 32-31 lead with 4:28 left. Kansas State responded with a 72 yard drive, but BU’s defense stiffened inside the five-yard
line, forcing a KSU field goal to give the Cats a 34-32 lead with 1:48 left. Baylor then marked 28 yards to put Connor Hawkins in position for a 53-yard, game-winning field goal that gave the Bears a 35-34 lead. K-State marked down the field in the final 31
seconds but had their 54 yard, potential walk-off field goal blocked by Cooper Lanz to secure the win.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Sawyer Robertson threw for 345 yards and two scores, freshman Michael Turner had his first career TD rush and Bryson Washington and Kobe Prentice each had catches. Trigg
had the best single game in Baylor tight end history, going for career highs in catches (eight) and yards (155).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">UP NEXT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">• Baylor will travel to face Cincinnati on Oct. 25 in the Queen City.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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