[BAYLOR FOOTBALL] Baylor Football Hosts No. 4 TCU in 2022 Home Finale

[Ingram, Brent]

BAYLOR ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS – Nov. 14, 2022

Baylor Football Hosts No. 4 TCU in 2022 Home Finale
Bears to Host Horned Frogs at 11 a.m. on FOX

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>

WACO, Texas -- Baylor football will wrap up its home schedule with a clash against No. 4 TCU, with kickoff on Saturday at McLane Stadium set for 11 a.m. and the game will be televised live on FOX and broadcast live on the Baylor Sports Network from Learfield.



The game will be called by FOX’s Jason Benetti (play-by-play) and Brock Huard (analyst). The radio call will be led by the Voice of the Bears, John Morris (play-by-play), with J.J. Joe (analyst) and Ricky Thompson (sideline) on the call.



Baylor (6-4, 4-3 Big 12 Conference) will host TCU (10-0, 7-0 Big 12) in the home finale of the 2022 season on Saturday. The game will also serve as the site for FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff, which will air live from 9-11 a.m.



STORY LINES

• Baylor heads into the matchup with TCU having won three of the last four games, with a winning streak snapped on Saturday in a loss to Kansas State.

• The Bears will be hosting Big Noon Kickoff for the second-consecutive season, also hosting it in 2021 before a win over No. 4 Oklahoma at McLane Stadium. This is the fifth pre-game morning show Baylor has hosted, including three appearances on ESPN’s College GameDay.

• BU is under the direction of third-year head coach Dave Aranda, the 2021 George Munger and Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year. Aranda took over prior to the 2020 season after a historic run for four years as the associate head coach and defensive coordinator at LSU, helping the Tigers to the 2019 National Championship and 2019 Southeastern Conference Championship.

• Baylor will be wrapping up its home schedule with the matchup with TCU on Saturday and will be looking for a 13th win in 17 tries at McLane Stadium under Aranda.

• Running back Richard Reese is in the midst of a historic 2022 season and ranks second among NCAA freshman in rushing TDs (13) and rushing yards (852). He sits just 29 yards shy of tying the freshman rushing record, held by Shock Linwood (2013).

• Aranda is off to the best 33-game start to a Baylor coaching career since George Sauer won 21 games from 1950-52. Aranda has led the Bears to a 20-13 record to open his career.

• Senior TE Ben Sims is the all-time leader in TD grabs (11) among Baylor tight ends.

• TCU head coach Sonny 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.

• Baylor leads the nation in wins among its football, and men’s and women’s basketball programs since 2011.



SERIES HISTORY

• TCU leads the all-time series, 57-53-7 with Baylor, with the Bears owning a narrow 34-33-5 record in games played in Waco.

• TCU has won two straight in the series and Baylor will be searching for its first win in Waco since 2014, a 61-58 win over the Frogs.

• The meeting will be the 118th all-time meeting in the series, which will mark the most-played rivalry game in the state of Texas.



LAST MEETING

• TCU posted a 30-28 win over Baylor in Fort Worth a year ago, with the Horned Frogs storming the field following the win over No. 12.

• It was the first game for TCU without coach Gary Patterson leading the team in 24 years. The Bears trailed by nine points and rallied for a 75-yard scoring drive to cut the lead to 23-21 heading into the fourth quarter and again at 30-28 following an 86-yard drive that ended on a Tyquan Thornton TD strike from Gerry Bohanon.

• The Bears threw an interception on the TCU 34-yard line with under two minutes, with the Horned Frogs kneeling the clock out to clinch the win and allowing the fan base to storm the field.

• Abram Smith rushed 18 times for 127 yards, with Thornton grabbing two TDs over five catches and 121 yards. Terrel Bernard had 11 tackles, while Jalen Pitre added six tackles, three for a loss with a forced fumble and three pass break-ups.

• TCU’s Chandler Morris threw for 461 yards on 29 of 41 passing with two TDs. He added 70 yards rushing with a TD on 11 carries. Quentin Johnson had five catches for 142 yards with a TD.



SENIOR DAY HONOREES

• Baylor’s home finale vs. TCU will mark Senior Day for 25 Bears.

• Among those to be honored include Dillon Doyle, TJ Franklin, Jacob Gall, Connor Galvin, Byron Hanspard Jr., Gavin Holmes, Siaki Ika, Bryson Jackson, Mose Jeffery, Khalil Keith, Collin Losack, John Mayers, Cole Maxwell, Tripp Mitchell, Grant Miller, Chidi Ogbonnaya, Jaxon Player, Issac Power, Noah Rauschenber, Corbin Robertson, Ben Sims, Griffin Speaks, Brayden Utley, Craig Williams and Will Williams.



BAYLOR VS. TOP-25 FOES

• Baylor will be facing TCU on Saturday in a matchup against a top-10 foe. It will mark the 259th all-time game for the Bears against a ranked foe.

• BU is 59-193-6 against ranked foes and is 0-3 in 2022.

• Last year, Baylor went 5-1 against ranked teams, including wins in four-straight chances, and three straight against top-eight foes.



BAYLOR HOSTS FOX’S BIG NOON KICKOFF

• For the second consecutive season, Baylor football will host FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff, welcoming the show to McLane Stadium for the BU clash with No. 4 TCU on Saturday.

• The game will kick off at 11 a.m. on FOX, and the Big Noon Kickoff Show will air live at 9 a.m. from a location around McLane Stadium.

• This will mark Baylor’s second-consecutive season on Big Noon Kickoff and will make the Bears the 10th team in the nation to host Big Noon Kickoff multiple times. Baylor hosted Big Noon Kickoff last year for a 27-14 win over Oklahoma. Baylor has hosted a morning pre-game show five times, including welcoming ESPN’s College GameDay in 2014 vs. Kansas State, 2015 vs. Oklahoma and 2019 vs. Oklahoma.

• Big Noon Kickoff, which began in 2019, includes Rob Stone and features former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn, 2004 Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart and his USC teammate Reggie Bush, 1997 Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson, and three-time national champion winning coach Urban Meyer. Veteran reporters Tom Rinaldi and Bruce Feldman also provide coverage throughout the two-hour show. The crew will be in town to preview the top games in college football, plus give detailed analysis on Baylor’s clash with TCU on Saturday.



KANSAS STATE SNAPS WIN STREAK WITH WIN AT McLANE

• Kansas State posted a 31-3 win over Baylor to snap a three-game BU winning streak in front of the ninth-largest crowd in McLane Stadium history.

• The Wildcats scored the first 17 points of the game and held complete control of the contest following an interception on Baylor’s first drive of the game. Baylor cut the lead to 17-3 with a field goal from John Mayers to end the first half but couldn’t muster anything the remaining 30 minutes as the Wildcats scored TDs in each quarter for a 28-point win.

• Kansas State held the football for 37:37 in the game and had the ball for over 11 minutes in the first and fourth quarters. The Wildcats rolled to 184 yards on the ground and threw for 221 yards as backup QB Will Howard replaced Adrian Martinez in the first quarter and threw for 196 yards and three TDs. Deuce Vaughn had 25 carries for 106 yards and added eight grabs for 50 yards and a TD.

• Baylor freshman Richard Reese led the offense with nine carries for 54 yards, with Blake Shapen throwing for 203 yards. Monaray Baldwin set a new career high with eight grabs, while Josh Cameron had career highs in catches (six) and yards (83). Defensively, Al Walcott had 11 tackles, a career best.



MOST INTERCEPTIONS IN TWO-GAME SPAN IN 42 YEARS

• Baylor picked off five passes in a win over Texas Tech in Lubbock and then picked off three passes - in the first half - at Oklahoma. It marked the most interceptions in a two-game span since 1980, when the Bears had four interceptions each in consecutive games vs. TCU and San Jose State.



SCOUTING THE FROGS

• TCU comes into the matchup with Baylor having won all 10 games of the 2022 season, including an unblemished 7-0 mark in Big 12 Conference play, clinching a berth in the Big 12 Championship Game in Arlington on Dec. 3.

• The Frogs are fresh off a 17-10 win at No. 18 Texas on Saturday to clinch the title-game berth. TCU is ranked No. 4 in the AP, Coaches and College Football Playoff top-25 rankings and is in position to compete for a berth in the CFP Playoffs.

• TCU is coached by Sonny Dykes, who is in his first year as the head coach for the Frogs after spending the previous 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 is assisted by defensive coordinator Joe Gillespie, who spent the last three years as the DC at Tulsa after a decorated 20-year career as a high school football coach in Texas. Garrett Riley serves as the offensive coordinator/QB coach, coming over with Dykes after two years at SMU, following a year at App State that saw the Mountaineers go 13-1. A.J. Ricker is the co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach who spent the last 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). Mark Tommerdahl is the special-teams coordinator, his second tenure with TCU after serving as the special teams coordinator from 1998-2000. He was the associate head coach/special teams coordinator at Texas Tech for the previous three years.

• The Frogs are averaging 40.5 points per game, ranking eighth in the nation, while averaging 486.1 yards per game, including 213.6 on the ground and 272.5 through the air. Defensively, TCU allows 25.2 points per game, surrendering 377.1 yards per game, including 134.1 on the ground and 243 through the air.

• QB Max Duggan is spinning a historic season for the Frogs, throwing 25 TDs and just two interceptions in 2022, going for 2,531 yards and 253.1 yards per game. Kendre Miller rushes for 114.7 yards per game, with 13 TDs and 1,147 yards on the year. Quintin Johnson is one of the top receivers in the nation, owning five TD grabs over 45 catches for 716 yards. Defensively, Jamoi Hodge leads the team with 57 tackles, while Dee Winters owns 6.5 sacks, Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson has eight pass break-ups and three picks and Bud Clark adds three interceptions.



BEARS IN NATIONAL STAT RANKINGS

• Baylor ranks among the nation’s top 30 leaders in eight categories, including checking in No. 25 in rushing offense and No. 25 in scoring offense. Defensively, BU ranks 14th in passes intercepted.

• Individually, Richard Reese ranks eighth in rushing TDs and 34th in rushing yards.



REESE EMERGES

• Baylor freshman running back Richard Reese is off to a hot start to his collegiate career, leading the Bears in rushing through his first 10 NCAA games.

• Reese has 852 yards rushing over 165 carries with 13 TDs, averaging 5.2 yards per carry and 85.2 yards per game.

• A native of Bellville, Texas, Reese has three games with 100+ yards, including consecutive games vs. Kansas and at Texas Tech. Among NCAA freshmen, Reese ranks second in rushing TDs and second in rushing yards.



CHASING RUSH DEFENSE HISTORY

• The Bears opened the 2022 season holding each of their first four opponents, and five of their first seven, to under 100 rushing yards. It marked the longest streak of consecutive games holding foes to under 100 yards on the ground since 1953, when the Bears held opponents in games 2-6 (Miami, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, TCU) to under 100 yards rushing.

• The season program standard for holding an opponent to 100 yards or fewer on the ground came in 1986, when the Bears held Wyoming, LA Tech, USC, Houston, Texas A&M, Rice and Texas to under 100 yards rushing. BU held six opponents to 100 yards or fewer on the ground during the historic 2021 season.

• A total of 11 opponents in the last two years haven’t reached 100 yards rushing, the best two-season total in program annals.



BAYLOR LEADS NATION IN FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL WINS

• Baylor athletics is in the midst of a historic run of success, including recent national titles in men’s and women’s basketball, and football coming off a Big 12 Conference Championship in 2021 and the 2022 Sugar Bowl.

• Since 2011, and as of Sept. 28, 2022, no other school can compete with Baylor’s run, as the Bears lead the nation in wins combined among football, and men’s and women’s basketball. Baylor has 56 more wins than the next closest school, Notre Dame. The next Big 12 Conference team on the list is West Virginia at No. 22 and Texas at No. 25.



FRESHMAN RUSHING RECORD TARGETED

• Baylor running back Richard Reese sits 29 yards shy of tying the program standard for rushing yards by a freshman.

• Shock Linwood owns the current record of 881 yards in 2013.



FOURTH-DOWN AGGRESSIVENESS

• Baylor under Coach Dave Aranda is one of the most aggressive teams in college football on fourth down. The Bears rank second nationally in fourth-down conversions (21), trailing only Texas Tech (26).

• The Bears have converted 63.6 percent of their fourth-down attempts, which ranks sixth among teams that have attempted 15+ fourth-down tries.



HISTORIC TIME OF POSSESSION IN KANSAS, TECH WINS

• The Bears held the football for 40 minutes and 10 seconds in the win over Kansas, including for 12 minutes in the second quarter.

• In the following game, BU held the football for 40 minutes and 17 seconds in a win at Texas Tech, including over 22 minutes in the first 30 ticks.

• It marked the longest time of possessions for Baylor in a game since a 14-0 win over NC State in 1995, when the Bears held it for 41:31. Baylor also held the football for 40:01 in a tilt with SMU in 1993.



MOST WINS IN TEXAS IN LAST 10+ YEARS

• As of Nov. 12, Baylor has won 96 games since 2011, tied for the most among the state of Texas’ 12 FBS teams.

• BU’s 96 wins in the last 10+ years are even with Houston (96) and just ahead of Texas A&M (95) and TCU (95), Texas (84), SMU (70), Texas Tech (68), UTSA (68), North Texas (65), Rice (54), UTEP (42) and Texas State (38).



KHALIL KEITH IMPACTS OFFENSIVE ATTACK

• Baylor entered the season with the expectation that its offensive line would be one of the top units in college football. After working to find its footing early in the year, the offensive line unit - led by assistant coach Eric Mateos - has blossomed into a physical weapon, paving the way for emerging running back forces in Richard Reese, Craig Williams and Qualan Jones.

• One key ingredient to the play of the offensive line over a four-week span has been the return from injury for sixth-year senior right tackle Khalil Keith. A 6-foot-5, 314-pound force, Keith missed the first six games of the year while recovering from injury, with Gavin Byers starting the first seven games at right tackle. Now that Keith has returned - playing off the bench vs. Kansas and starting vs. Texas Tech, Oklahoma and K-State - the offensive attack has improved.



HOLDING SERVE AT McLANE

• Baylor owns a 12-4 record at McLane Stadium under the direction of Coach Dave Aranda, including a 10-2 mark over the last two years. The Bears had a nine-game winning streak at home snapped in a loss to Oklahoma State.



SECOND-MOST INTS IN NATION IN LAST TWO YEARS

• Baylor has picked off 31 passes over the last two years and currently ranks 11th in the nation and first in the Big 12 in interceptions in 2022.

• Only Iowa (35) has more interceptions in the last two years, with Baylor just ahead of third-place Kansas State (29).



WINNING THE TURNOVER BATTLE

• Baylor has forced considerably more turnovers than it has allowed in 33 games under head coach Dave Aranda.

• BU has 61 takeaways (44 INTs, 17 FR) and 39 giveaways (24 INTs, 15 FL) in 33 games under Aranda.

• Baylor has scored 10 non-offensive touchdowns in 32 games under Aranda – three kickoff returns (Ebner x 3), five interception returns (Pitre x 2, McCarty, Walcott, Woods), one punt return (Holmes) and one fumble return (Woods).



22 FORMER BEARS ON NFL ROSTERS IN 2022

• A total of 22 Baylor football greats are on NFL rosters to open the 2022 season.

• Terrel Bernard is one of six Baylor players who were selected in the 2022 NFL Draft and is one of eight BU rookies set for the 2022 season.

• The Houston Texans boast an NFL-high four former Bears, including safety Grayland Arnold, wide receiver Drew Estrada, safety Jalen Pitre and long snapper Jon Weeks. The Tennessee Titans, Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers each boast two Baylor Bears on 2022 rosters.



SPREADING IT AROUND

• The Bears have spread the football around in the passing game in 2022. Baylor ranks tied for third in the nation as of Oct. 28, with completions to 18 different players. Only Tulane and Michigan (20) and NC State, Penn State, Oregon and Colorado (19) have been more diversified.



ARANDA THROUGH 33 GAMES IN BAYLOR HISTORY

• Dave Aranda is 20-13 in his first 33 games as the Baylor head coach, which is the most since George Sauer (1950-55) won 21 through the same span in program history. Only Sauer, Frank Bridges (1920-22) and Charles P. Mosely (1914-16) has more wins through the first 33 games of his BU head coaching career.



NEXT UP

• Baylor will return to action on Friday, Nov. 26, traveling to face Texas at 11 a.m. in Austin.



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Brent Ingram | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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