[BAYLOR FOOTBALL] No. 10/10 Baylor travels to take on No. 25 BYU in Provo

Mon Sep 5 14:12:02 CDT 2022

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BAYLOR ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS – Sept. 5, 2022

No. 10/10 Baylor travels to take on No. 25 BYU in Provo
Bears to face No. 25 BYU in first road test of 2022

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 -- No. 10/10 Baylor will hit the road for its first road test of the year, facing No. 25 BYU in Provo, Utah, with kickoff on Saturday slated for 9:15 p.m. CT at LaVell Edwards Stadium.

The game will be televised live on ESPN, with Mark Jones, Robert Griffin III and Quint Kessenich calling the action, and will be broadcast live on the Baylor Sports Network from Learfield, with John Morris, J.J. Joe and Ricky Thompson voicing the game.

Baylor (1-0) will be facing BYU (1-0) for the second consecutive season after besting the Cougars in Waco last year 38-24. Both teams posted season-opening wins last Saturday, with BU getting a 69-10 win over UAlbany and BYU going on the road for a 50-20 win at South Florida.

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BEARS ROLL OVER GREAT DANES IN SEASON LID-LIFTER

• Baylor opened the 2022 season in efficient fashion, routing UAlbany 69-10 on Sept. 3 in front of a McLane Stadium crowd. The Bears got 214 yards and two TDs through the air, and one on the ground, from sophomore QB Blake Shapen - all in the first half - while rolling to the season-opening win.

• BU played 89 players in the win, with seven Bears making their first-career starts. Gavin Holmes returned from a missed 2021 season due to injury to return a punt 72 yards for a TD in the first half, Shapen found Monaray Baldwin and Hal Presley for TD passes, Baldwin scored on the ground from 50 yards away and Craig Williams scored from four yards out to help BU build an insurmountable lead.

SERIES HISTORY

• The Bears will be facing BYU for the fourth time in program history and for the second-consecutive season. Baylor has won two of the three meetings, which started in 1983 with a 40-36 win by the Bears, resumed in 1984 with a 47-13 win by BYU in Provo, Utah, and last year picked back up with a 38-24 win for BU in Waco.

LAST MEETING

• In the matchup last year, the Bears posted a 38-24 win over No. 19/20 BYU in Waco to improve to 6-1 on the year, earning bowl eligibility for the 10th time in the last 12 years. BU owned a 31-14 lead after three quarters, rolling to 534 yards of total offense, including 303 on the ground and 231 through the air. The Bears fell behind 7-3 before scoring 14 straight to take an advantage that wouldn’t be relinquished.

• Baylor was led by a unique game from linebacker Dillon Doyle, who came in on offense to catch and rush for a touchdown, while also recording a sack, becoming the first player in program history to accomplish that feat. BU also got 231 yards passing from Gerry Bohanon, 188 yards over 17 carries from Abram Smith and 95 yards on 11 carries from Trestan Ebner. Jaren Hall threw for 342 yards and rushed for 25 yards on eight carries for BYU.

• Baylor did not have a penalty that was accepted for the first time in program history, stretched its win streak to six games in non-conference play and totaled five sacks for a second straight game.

BAYLOR VS. TOP-25 FOES

• Baylor will be facing BYU on Saturday in a matchup of a pair of ranked teams. It will mark the 256th all-time game for the Bears against a ranked foe and 61st game with both teams ranked.

• BU owns a 124-60-2 record as a ranked team, are 59-190-6 against ranked foes and are 26-33-1 as a ranked team against a ranked team.

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

SCOUTING THE COUGS

• BYU comes into the matchup with the Bears coming off a 50-21 win over South Florida on Saturday. The Cougars return 18 of 22 starters from a 2021 season that won 10 games and need only replace running back Tyler Allgeier, receiver Neil Pau’u and a pair of linemen.

• The Cougars rolled for 573 yards of total offense in the win over USF, including 261 through the air and 312 on the ground. Standout QB Jaren Hall threw for two TDs on 25 of 32 with one interception. Christopher Brooks rushed 13 times for 135 yards, while Puka Nacua had two TDs on three carries and 76 yards. A total of 12 different receivers caught Hall passes, led by four grabs from Kody Epps. Kicker Jacob Oldroyd was 2 of 2 - both inside 40 yards - with a long of 39, while punter Ryan Rekhow had two boots for a 36-yard average, with both downed inside the 20. Jacob Boren led the defense with six tackles, including a sack, and Max Tooley had five tackles and an interception returned for a TD.

CONNECTING THE TEAMS

• BYU and Baylor have several connections entering the matchup, most notably that the teams will begin the 2023 season as conference foes with the addition of the Cougars to the Big 12 Conference next year.

• Baylor offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes spent three seasons, from 2018-20 as the offensive coordinator for BYU in Provo, helping the Cougs to three-consecutive bowl games, including the Boca Raton, Hawaii and Famous Idaho Potato Bowls. He helped BYU rank in the top 15 in 10 different statistical categories in 2020, including scoring (3rd, 43.5 ppg), total offense (7th, 522.2 ypg) and passing offense (9th, 332.1 ppg). BYU tied for the national lead in yards per play in 2020 (7.84) and led all of FBS in plays of 30 or more yards (45). BYU scored 40 or more nine times in 12 games in 2020. He coached Zach Wilson in 2020, helping the QB, who was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, throw for 3,692 yards and 33 TDs. BYU also saw Tyler Allgeier run for 1,130 yards, the ninth-best total in BYU history with four players earning All-America honors, including offensive linamn Brady Christensen and WR Dax Milne.

• Baylor offensive line coach Eric Mateos also returns to Provo, where he served as the offensive line coach in 2019-20 under Grimes as the OC. Mateos helped coach Christensen to consensus All-America honors as BYU went 11-1, where he was the highest-graded offensive tackle in the nation by Pro Football Focus, surrendering just three pressures across 372 regular-season, pass-blocking snaps.

• BU head coach Dave Aranda has ties to the state of Utah, serving as the defensive coordinator at Utah State in Logan in 2012, where he helped the Aggies to a school-record 11 wins and directed a defense that ranked No. 7 in he nation in scoring defense , allowing just 15.4 points per game.

• Baylor has a trio of players from Utah, including long snapper Garrison Grimes (American Fork, Utah) - the son of offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes - All-America defensive lineman Siaki Ika (Salt Lake) and freshman offensive lineman George Maile (South Jordan).

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Brent Ingram | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 210-845-8651

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