Bears bow out on ‘blackout,’ Big 12 title hopes shattered

It's a big weekend in the Bounce House with UCF playing host to Baylor for their inaugural home game in the Big 12. To get the lowdown on the Bears, UCFSports.com caught up with Grayson Grundhoefer of SicEm365 to talk about the matchup. The two schools do share some history. A decade ago, UCF and Baylor met in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 1, 2014 with…

No. 3 Texas begins its campaign for a Big 12 title with a Week 4 trip to Baylor at McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas. The Longhorns followed up an emotional road win against Alabama with a slow performance against Wyoming at home. Texas found itself tied at 10-10 entering the fourth quarter, but went on a 21-0 run to close the game. One week after…

In one of the many NCAA Football games today - two NCAA Football teams will meet up. The Utah Utes and Baylor Bears will mix it up as part of the Week Two slate. The 12th-ranked Utah Utes are coming off a nice home win over Florida to start the season. Utah is coming off a Rose Bowl win last season as well. For the Baylor Bears, they will look to…

The Baylor Bears (0-1) will look to prove oddsmakers wrong when they take on the No. 12 Utah Utes (1-0) on Saturday, September 9, 2023 as a 7.5-point underdog. The contest has an over/under of 45.5 points. Utah is putting up 24 points per game on offense (79th in the FBS), and ranks 32nd defensively with 11 points allowed per game. Baylor's offense…

The Big 12 Conference finds itself in a fight for survival and positioning at the Power Five level. It's an uneasy time with the SEC poaching Oklahoma and Texas from the league starting next season, but the Big 12 is responding with the additions of BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF. Commissioner Brett Yormark allowed for the possibility of further…

In last year's meeting Baylor went on to beat Texas at home 31-24. WagerTalk college football handicapper Kevin Dolan shares this thoughts on Friday's Big 12 battle between Texas and Baylor which will be each team's last game of the regular season. Find college football free picks all season long at WagerTalk! Friday's Texas vs Baylor clash in the…

The TCU Horned Frogs will travel to take on the Baylor Bears in a Saturday afternoon Big 12 college football matchup at McLane Stadium in Waco. Let's continue our college football odds series and make our TCU-Baylor prediction and pick. TCU has put themselves firmly in the College Football Playoff conversation with a 10-0 start to their season. New…

This season I'll be breaking down a few of college football's biggest games each week and giving out at least one bet I like from each matchup. Let's take a look at TCU's attempt to stay undefeated on the road at Baylor. TCU vs Baylor Spread, current line: TCU vs Baylor Best Bet Prediction: I'd lean towards laying the points and betting on TCU, but…

Two teams in the thick of the Big 12 conference title race will face off Saturday with the Kansas State Wildcats traveling to Waco to take on a red-hot Baylor Bears team. Last Saturday was an extremely disappointing result for the Wildcats (6-3, 4-2 Big 12), who had a prime opportunity to inch closer to a berth in the Big 12 Championship Game with…

College football comes at you pretty fast. Just ask the Kansas State Wildcats. Last week, the 23rd-ranked Wildcats (6-3, 4-2 Big 12) had a chance to climb above the pack in the Big 12, and control their path to the conference title game. Now? After a tough loss to Texas, they're in a three way-tie for second in the Big 12, and play one of those…

Richard Reese will lead the Baylor Bears (6-3) into their battle against the Kansas State Wildcats (6-3) at McLane Stadium on Saturday at 7:00 PM ET. The Bears enter the matchup after winning 38-35 over the Oklahoma Sooners in their last outing on November 5. Their last time out, the Wildcats lost 34-27 to the Texas Longhorns. Blake Shapen had 132…

Kansas State Wildcats (6-3) vs. Baylor Bears (6-3) November 12, 2022 7:00 pm EDT The Line: Baylor Bears -2.5 / Kansas State Wildcats+2.5; Over/Under: +52.5 (Click here for latest betting odds) The Kansas State Wildcats and the Baylor Bears meet in a Big 12 conference college football matchup from McLane Stadium on Saturday night. The Kansas State…

The Baylor Bears (6-3) and No. 23 Kansas State Wildcats (6-2) will face each other in clash of Big 12 opponents at McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas. The Bears (-3) kick things off on November 12, 2022 at 7:00 PM ET on FS1 against the Wildcats (+122 on the moneyline to win). A total of 53.5 points has been set for the game by oddsmakers. This article…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Tony Mathis rushed for a career-high 163 yards and two touchdowns and Casey Legg kicked a 22-yard field goal with 33 seconds left to lift West Virginia to a 43-40 victory over Baylor on Thursday night. Mathis came up big in the absence of West Virginia's leading rusher, CJ Donaldson, who was ruled out of the game after…

Blake Shapen is looking like the smart choice to have won Baylor's QB battle, and he may just be the difference against an Oklahoma State defense that gets picked apart through the air. Find out what our college football picks see on Saturday. In a rematch of last year's dramatic Big 12 title game, the Oklahoma State Cowboys head to face the Baylor…

The Baylor Bears will continue their 2022 season on Saturday against the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Here is how to watch and listen. Baylor is preparing for the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Big 12 Conference action on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas. The game is a rematch of last season's Big 12 Championship game, one that saw the…

How good does it feel that football is back? Attention fellow betting fans, the Baylor Bears are pitted up against the BYU Cougars in one of the more intriguing matchups on the college football slate in Week 2. With that being said, join us for our college football odds series, where our Baylor-BYU prediction and pick will be revealed. Fresh off of…

No. 9 Baylor (1-0) will look to win their second-straight game over No. 21 BYU (1-0) on Saturday night at LaVell Edwards Stadium (10:15 p.m. ET, ESPN). This is the first time that Baylor is playing in Provo, Utah since the 1984 season. However, the Bears defeated the Cougars 38-24 in Waco, Texas last season. In last year's matchup, Abram Smith and…

Just last season, Baylor dominated BYU in Waco in a game it led by as much as 21. As our college football betting picks explain, we don't think enough has changed to justify BYU now being a 3.5-point favorite at home. Arguably the top matchup in Week 2 of the college football season goes down Saturday night in Provo as the No. 9 Baylor Bears head…

By Michael Haag | Sports Editor The long wait is over as No. 10 Baylor football gears up for its home opener versus the University of Albany, with kickoff set for 6 p.m. Saturday at McLane Stadium. The 10th-ranked Bears open the season as favorites to win the Big 12, coming off a program-best 12-win season. Fresh off fall camp, head coach Dave…

We're just a few days away from kickoff and the Oklahoma Sooners are about to embark on their quest to return to the Big 12 title game and the College Football Playoff. A two-year absence from the playoff hit harder in 2021 when Oklahoma missed the Big 12 title game. Armed with a new vision and new life under first-year head coach Brent Venables,…

Nickname: Bears Location: Waco, Texas Enrollment: 20709 Home field: McLane Stadium (Capacity: 45140) Conference: Big 12 2022 record: 6-7, 4-5 Big 12 All-time series record vs. UCF: 0-1 Last meeting: Jan. 1, 2014 (UCF won 52-42) This is the fifth installment in a 12-part series highlighting UCF's 2023 football opponents. There surely would have been…

SAN MARCOS - Baylor had six players taken in this year's NFL draft, but Texas State coach Jake Spavital believes the Bears have actually improved in Bears coach Dave Aranda's third year, especially on defense. The Bobcats, who have been favored in both of their first two games, are 30-point underdogs for Saturday night's game at No. 17 Baylor in…