Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
The loss to San Jose was costly. @other team ranked ahead of us also lost that week, We would have been ranked in top 5, maybe 3 if we have won. I have heard it said our LB's inability to cover the flats caused the loss. I was a freshman and snuck out of work to watch the second half. That game was the high water mark for Baylor football until CAB and CPB came along.
I'll take the bait.
This loss was due to coaching. GT admitted it. We were up 15-0 in the first Q and GT started pulling starters to get rested up for the next week Arkansas game. By the time the starters went back in a couple of fluke plays (ball bouncing off our All-American safeties shoulder pads into a streaking Spartan for a TD) later we were down and never recovered. 6 Bear turnovers.
We threw 4 interceptions, lost 2 fumbles and drove to the SJS 6, 22 and 24 only to come away with zero points. Our FG kicker was injured and a sub missed FGs. In the 3rd Q we were in a dogfight and they threw the ball extremely well (they must have seen the Toad game the week before where we gave up 408 yards passing) to some future NFL star named Gerald Wilhite.
We took the Spartans lightly and had an ABC regionally televised Arkansas game (Homecoming) coming up the next week. The undefeated teams that lost that weekend were UCLA, NC and Alabama.
I still think the highwater mark for Baylor was either the 1957 team and their Sugar Bowl win over Johnny Majors' Tennessee team or the 1963 Bluebonnet team which beat LSU 14-7.
The LBs covered the flats well. Most of the yardage was gained between the hashes. Nice try.