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BAYLOR'S BOWL HISTORY

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Courtesy of the Waco Tribune:

https://www.wacotrib.com/sports/baylor/baylor-s-bowl-game-history/article_96ba4922-6ead-11e4-94d6-0f1676c87cca.html#tncms-source=article-nav-next

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Thanks for posting! This was put together really good! Lots of memories and history.
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So Matt Rhule is one of only 9 coaches to ever lead Baylor to a bowl out of the 27 men who have stood on the Baylor sideline since 1899.

Bob Woodruff - Dixie Bowl

George Sauer - Orange Bowl, Gator Bowl

Sam Boyd - Sugar Bowl

John Bridgers - Gator Bowl, Gotham Bowl, Bluebonnet Bowl

Grant Teaff - Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Bluebonnet Bowl, Copper Bowl, John Hancock Bowl

Chuck Reedy - Alamo Bowl

Art Briles - Texas Bowl, Alamo Bowl, Holiday Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Russell Athletic Bowl

Jim Grobe - Cactus Bowl

Matt Rhule - Texas Bowl


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I bet rhule is stoked about that 1975 game.
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MilliVanilli said:

So Matt Rhule is one of only 9 coaches to ever lead Baylor to a bowl out of the 27 men who have stood on the Baylor sideline since 1899.

Bob Woodruff - Dixie Bowl

George Sauer - Orange Bowl, Gator Bowl

Sam Boyd - Sugar Bowl

John Bridgers - Gator Bowl, Gotham Bowl, Bluebonnet Bowl

Grant Teaff - Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Bluebonnet Bowl, Copper Bowl, John Hancock Bowl

Chuck Reedy - Alamo Bowl

Art Briles - Texas Bowl, Alamo Bowl, Holiday Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Russell Athletic Bowl

Jim Grobe - Cactus Bowl

Matt Rhule - Texas Bowl



The first 12 coaches didn't even have a bowl game to play in, no matter how good their team was. Really only 6 BU coaches (Jennings, Kimbrough, Beall, Roberts, Steele and Morriss) could be considered to have failed to achieve a bowl game (and Jennings only had 4 possibilities from 1937-40 and three of those teams achieved national rankings, including the '37 team which got as high as #4 in the country; and Kimbrough, who had 2 of his 6 seasons canceled by World War II, but managed to tie #1-ranked Texas 7-7 in '41).
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Malbec said:

MilliVanilli said:

So Matt Rhule is one of only 9 coaches to ever lead Baylor to a bowl out of the 27 men who have stood on the Baylor sideline since 1899.

Bob Woodruff - Dixie Bowl

George Sauer - Orange Bowl, Gator Bowl

Sam Boyd - Sugar Bowl

John Bridgers - Gator Bowl, Gotham Bowl, Bluebonnet Bowl

Grant Teaff - Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Bluebonnet Bowl, Copper Bowl, John Hancock Bowl

Chuck Reedy - Alamo Bowl

Art Briles - Texas Bowl, Alamo Bowl, Holiday Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Russell Athletic Bowl

Jim Grobe - Cactus Bowl

Matt Rhule - Texas Bowl



The first 12 coaches didn't even have a bowl game to play in, no matter how good their team was. Really only 6 BU coaches (Jennings, Kimbrough, Beall, Roberts, Steele and Morriss) could be considered to have failed to achieve a bowl game (and Jennings only had 4 possibilities from 1937-40 and three of those teams achieved national rankings, including the '37 team which got as high as #4 in the country; and Kimbrough, who had 2 of his 6 seasons canceled by World War II, but managed to tie #1-ranked Texas 7-7 in '41).
I'd cut Morriss the most slack out of the lot since he was dealing with the modern P5 era with antiquated facilities and budgets, and still almost got Baylor bowling in 2005 if not for some bad luck.

In any event, over the last 120 years Baylor coaches average roughly a 4.4-year tenure, and over the last 70 years, we've essentially gone bowling every 1 in 3 seasons.



JETHRO
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Add four bowls to Teaff if he coached in this era. He had two 6-5 teams a 6-4-1 team, and a 7-3-1 team left home because there weren't the plethora of bowls that exist today.
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JETHRO said:

Add four bowls to Teaff if he coached in this era. He had two 6-5 teams a 6-4-1 team, and a 7-3-1 team left home because there weren't the plethora of bowls that exist today.
Indeed, makes those Sugar and Orange Bowl appearances of the 50s that much more impressive too.

Timbear
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It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
MilliVanilli
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Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.



Redbrickbear
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Pretty decent bowl history except for wins in the major six.

Still can't believe we have gotten our teeth knocked out in every cotton bowl game we have ever played.

Freaking Rice has 3 cotton bowl wins .

Orange bowl was another choke job.

Thank God for that 1950s sugar bowl win.
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Redbrickbear said:

Pretty decent bowl history except for wins in the major six.

Still can't believe we have gotten our teeth knocked out in every cotton bowl game we have ever played.

Freaking Rice has 3 cotton bowl wins .

There's a reason Rice Stadium is that big and that they had to add upper decks onto the Cotton Bowl for the crowds to see Doak Walker and Kyle Rote at SMU.

Meanwhile, Tech has still never won an outright SWC or Big 12 Football Title. There was a five way tie in 1994 (BU was one of the five) and Tech got the nod only because they had never gone before.
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Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Well, at least we don't make up "championships" and post them at our stadium to make ourselves feel better about our history like the aggys.
Johnny Bear
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JETHRO said:

Add four bowls to Teaff if he coached in this era. He had two 6-5 teams a 6-4-1 team, and a 7-3-1 team left home because there weren't the plethora of bowls that exist today.
The 6-4-1 team you are referring to was Teaff's 1990 team, and as I recall representatives of the Independence Bowl wanted a firm commitment to an invitation just before the last game of the season which was against UT - with a Cotton Bowl bid going to the winner. There weren't that many conference ties to bowl games back then and most of the bowls were a "free for all" as far who they invited. Since there was still a chance to go the Cotton Bowl, Teaff understandably declined the Independence Bowl. UT went on to win that game and the Bears ended up staying home during bowl season.
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MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." ~ John Adams
MilliVanilli
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Doc Holliday said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
That might hold water if it were anything but Cabers behaving that way.

Only a caber acts like Baylor had to football tradition before 2010.
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What I like about bowl season is it affords interesting match ups that you obviously wouldn't see otherwise. Baylor has not played Vandy for instance since the 1950s.
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Johnny Bear
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MilliVanilli said:

Doc Holliday said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
That might hold water if it were anything but Cabers behaving that way.

Only a caber acts like Baylor had to football tradition before 2010.
Any at least marginally informed Baylor fan realizes that our football history prior to 2010 certainly wasn't all bad and had some successes and highlights along the way, but please inform me about when we ever had a 7 year period filled with anything even close to as much success, including a couple of championships, a Heisman winner, and 7 straight bowl games as we had from 2010 - 2016 (and the 2016 team for all intents and purposes was a depleted CAB team). And it could've and should've continued.
MilliVanilli
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Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Doc Holliday said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
That might hold water if it were anything but Cabers behaving that way.

Only a caber acts like Baylor had to football tradition before 2010.
Any at least marginally informed Baylor fan realizes that our football history prior to 2010 certainly wasn't all bad and had some successes and highlights along the way, but please inform me about when we ever had a 7 year period filled with anything even close to as much success, including a couple of championships, a Heisman winner, and 7 straight bowl games as we had from 2010 - 2016 (and the 2016 team for all intents and purposes was a depleted CAB team). And it could've and should've continued.
Therein lies the answer of your own question.

It's utter idiocy and a transparently t-shirt fan agenda to act like 2010-2015 is the only thing worth discussing.
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MilliVanilli said:

Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Doc Holliday said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
That might hold water if it were anything but Cabers behaving that way.

Only a caber acts like Baylor had to football tradition before 2010.
Any at least marginally informed Baylor fan realizes that our football history prior to 2010 certainly wasn't all bad and had some successes and highlights along the way, but please inform me about when we ever had a 7 year period filled with anything even close to as much success, including a couple of championships, a Heisman winner, and 7 straight bowl games as we had from 2010 - 2016 (and the 2016 team for all intents and purposes was a depleted CAB team). And it could've and should've continued.
Therein lies the answer of your own question.

It's utter idiocy and a transparently t-shirt fan agenda to act like 2010-2015 is the only thing worth discussing.
Huh???? What does that even mean and furthermore who is acting like the CAB era after 2009 is the only thing worth discussing???? And of course you didn't answer the question because the answer is "never" and you don't like the answer.
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McCavebear said:

What I like about bowl season is it affords interesting match ups that you obviously wouldn't see otherwise. Baylor has not played Vandy for instance since the 1950s.
True. With the exception of 1983/85/86 bowl games against OkSt, LSU and Colorado which we had played numerous times even before the Big XII, all of our bowl games since Teaff have been against opponents we have never or rarely seen:

1974: PennSt (only meeting)
1979: Clemson (only meeting)
1980: Alabama (met once before in 1979)
1991: Indiana (home & home in 1968 and 1971)
1992: Arizona (only meeting)
1994: Washington St ( home & home in 1966-67 and again in 2006/2008)
2010: Illinois (met once before in 1976)
2011: Washington (home & home in 1964-65)
2012: UCLA (only meeting)
2013: UCF (only meeting)
2014: Mich St (met once before in 1968)
2015: UNC (only meeting)
2016: Boise St (only meeting)
2018: Vandy (home & home in 1953-54)

Compare and contrast that to Florida & Michigan, which meet for the 2nd year in a row and the 3rd time in 4 years.
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Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Doc Holliday said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
That might hold water if it were anything but Cabers behaving that way.

Only a caber acts like Baylor had to football tradition before 2010.
Any at least marginally informed Baylor fan realizes that our football history prior to 2010 certainly wasn't all bad and had some successes and highlights along the way, but please inform me about when we ever had a 7 year period filled with anything even close to as much success, including a couple of championships, a Heisman winner, and 7 straight bowl games as we had from 2010 - 2016 (and the 2016 team for all intents and purposes was a depleted CAB team). And it could've and should've continued.
Therein lies the answer of your own question.

It's utter idiocy and a transparently t-shirt fan agenda to act like 2010-2015 is the only thing worth discussing.
Huh???? What does that even mean and furthermore who is acting like the CAB era after 2009 is the only thing worth discussing???? And of course you didn't answer the question because the answer is "never" and you don't like the answer.
The poster who was originally addressed, you seem to have confused yourself by even replying.
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Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Doc Holliday said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
That might hold water if it were anything but Cabers behaving that way.

Only a caber acts like Baylor had to football tradition before 2010.
Any at least marginally informed Baylor fan realizes that our football history prior to 2010 certainly wasn't all bad and had some successes and highlights along the way, but please inform me about when we ever had a 7 year period filled with anything even close to as much success, including a couple of championships, a Heisman winner, and 7 straight bowl games as we had from 2010 - 2016 (and the 2016 team for all intents and purposes was a depleted CAB team). And it could've and should've continued.
I looked. 2010-2016 we won 70% of our games and had two conference championships. Finished in the Top 20 nationally 4 of those years.

The next best 7-year period was 1950-1956 where we won 64.50% of our games, 3 top 20 finishes but no conference championships. An Orange Bowl loss and a Sugar Bowl win.

Pick about any 7 year period from 79-94 and you get a 60% winning percentage. 80-86 was probably the best because we had 3 top 20s and a conference championship. Expand the question to 8 years and 79-86 or 80-87 become pretty competitive.

From 1920-1926 we also won 60% + and two conference titles.

But yes-2010-2016 was the golden age of BU football.
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Booray said:

Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Doc Holliday said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
That might hold water if it were anything but Cabers behaving that way.

Only a caber acts like Baylor had to football tradition before 2010.
Any at least marginally informed Baylor fan realizes that our football history prior to 2010 certainly wasn't all bad and had some successes and highlights along the way, but please inform me about when we ever had a 7 year period filled with anything even close to as much success, including a couple of championships, a Heisman winner, and 7 straight bowl games as we had from 2010 - 2016 (and the 2016 team for all intents and purposes was a depleted CAB team). And it could've and should've continued.
I looked. 2010-2016 we won 70% of our games and had two conference championships. Finished in the Top 20 nationally 4 of those years.

The next best 7-year period was 1950-1956 where we won 64.50% of our games, 3 top 20 finishes but no conference championships. An Orange Bowl loss and a Sugar Bowl win.

Pick about any 7 year period from 79-94 and you get a 60% winning percentage. 80-86 was probably the best because we had 3 top 20s and a conference championship. Expand the question to 8 years and 79-86 or 80-87 become pretty competitive.

From 1920-1926 we also won 60% + and two conference titles.

But yes-2010-2016 was the golden age of BU football.
Yeah, I'm sure the world is impressed with a 70 percent win percentage against the Woffords and Buffalos of the world while simultaneously losing to UCF and blowing a 20 point fourth quarter lead to MSU.

Meanwhile, Baylor used to play national title contenders in the out of conference schedule.

Ohio State, BYU, USC, Colorado just to name a few, all national title contenders when on the Baylor schedule in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 90s, and Baylor beat or took them to the wire one and all.

Football didn't begin and end in the half-decade you worship, don't think your ignorance of history makes you an authority.
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Again 2010=2016 14-14 v. ranked opponents. Far and away more games against ranked schools and a much better winning percentage. Beat #2 KSU, # 5 OU, #9 KSU, #14 TCU, #5TCU. #10 UNC, and on and on.
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Booray said:

Again 2010=2016 14-14 v. ranked opponents. Far and away more games against ranked schools and a much better winning percentage. Beat #2 KSU, # 5 OU, #9 KSU, #14 TCU, #5TCU. #10 UNC, and on and on.
Yes, you fap nightly to 2010 to 2015, it's where you live, nothing happened before or will ever happen again in the Caber mind.
Timbear
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Milli, is Booray factually right or wrong? If right, then what's the problem? It happened. Nothing you say can change it. Your attacks mean nothing.
MilliVanilli
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Timbear said:

Milli, is Booray factually right or wrong? If right, then what's the problem? It happened. Nothing you say can change it. Your attacks mean nothing.
You Cabers are here for one reason, to crap on Baylor football, and you get offended when the obvious agenda is lampooned.

You're tools for a disgraced coach in Florence, Italy and you can't move on.

Baylor success infuriates you to even acknowledge or celebrate because you live in 2010 to 2015 and can hear no other.

Ironically you demean that era with your agenda instead of letting it stand in the timeline of successes.
JETHRO
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Johnny Bear said:

JETHRO said:

Add four bowls to Teaff if he coached in this era. He had two 6-5 teams a 6-4-1 team, and a 7-3-1 team left home because there weren't the plethora of bowls that exist today.
The 6-4-1 team you are referring to was Teaff's 1990 team, and as I recall representatives of the Independence Bowl wanted a firm commitment to an invitation just before the last game of the season which was against UT - with a Cotton Bowl bid going to the winner. There weren't that many conference ties to bowl games back then and most of the bowls were a "free for all" as far who they invited. Since there was still a chance to go the Cotton Bowl, Teaff understandably declined the Independence Bowl. UT went on to win that game and the Bears ended up staying home during bowl season.
I think that was JJ Joe's first year. He came off the bench at the Tech game and turning the season around. That team deserved a bowl.
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MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

Milli, is Booray factually right or wrong? If right, then what's the problem? It happened. Nothing you say can change it. Your attacks mean nothing.
You Cabers are here for one reason, to crap on Baylor football, and you get offended when the obvious agenda is lampooned.

You're tools for a disgraced coach in Florence, Italy and you can't move on.

Baylor success infuriates you to even acknowledge or celebrate because you live in 2010 to 2015 and can hear no other.

Ironically you demean that era with your agenda instead of letting it stand in the timeline of successes.

How can "Baylor success infuriate" them when all they do is defend the best era in Baylor football history to you who continuously attacks it? You realize that literally makes no sense right?
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ColomboLQ said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

Milli, is Booray factually right or wrong? If right, then what's the problem? It happened. Nothing you say can change it. Your attacks mean nothing.
You Cabers are here for one reason, to crap on Baylor football, and you get offended when the obvious agenda is lampooned.

You're tools for a disgraced coach in Florence, Italy and you can't move on.

Baylor success infuriates you to even acknowledge or celebrate because you live in 2010 to 2015 and can hear no other.

Ironically you demean that era with your agenda instead of letting it stand in the timeline of successes.

How can "Baylor success infuriate" them when all they do is defend the best era in Baylor football history to you who continuously attacks it? You realize that literally makes no sense right?
Caber, we know what you are. If it didn't happen from 2010 to 2015 it didn't happen in your alternate reality.

We get it, you hate Baylor for sending your idol into exile in Italy.
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MilliVanilli said:

Booray said:

Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Doc Holliday said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
That might hold water if it were anything but Cabers behaving that way.

Only a caber acts like Baylor had to football tradition before 2010.
Any at least marginally informed Baylor fan realizes that our football history prior to 2010 certainly wasn't all bad and had some successes and highlights along the way, but please inform me about when we ever had a 7 year period filled with anything even close to as much success, including a couple of championships, a Heisman winner, and 7 straight bowl games as we had from 2010 - 2016 (and the 2016 team for all intents and purposes was a depleted CAB team). And it could've and should've continued.
I looked. 2010-2016 we won 70% of our games and had two conference championships. Finished in the Top 20 nationally 4 of those years.

The next best 7-year period was 1950-1956 where we won 64.50% of our games, 3 top 20 finishes but no conference championships. An Orange Bowl loss and a Sugar Bowl win.

Pick about any 7 year period from 79-94 and you get a 60% winning percentage. 80-86 was probably the best because we had 3 top 20s and a conference championship. Expand the question to 8 years and 79-86 or 80-87 become pretty competitive.

From 1920-1926 we also won 60% + and two conference titles.

But yes-2010-2016 was the golden age of BU football.
Yeah, I'm sure the world is impressed with a 70 percent win percentage against the Woffords and Buffalos of the world while simultaneously losing to UCF and blowing a 20 point fourth quarter lead to MSU.

Meanwhile, Baylor used to play national title contenders in the out of conference schedule.

Ohio State, BYU, USC, Colorado just to name a few, all national title contenders when on the Baylor schedule in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 90s, and Baylor beat or took them to the wire one and all.

Football didn't begin and end in the half-decade you worship, don't think your ignorance of history makes you an authority.

Back when we were playing those higher profile OOC games we were also a member of the SWC which - let's face it - was by and large a crappy overall conference, especially compared to a conference like the Big 12. On balance, as Big 12 members, we've still played more high end programs even with scheduling a lot of OOC cupcakes.

You accuse fans you label as "Cabers" as hating Baylor now (which is wrong) and yet you express nothing but hate and total disdain for what is unquestionably the best and most successful period in our football history. You're one weird dude.
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Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Booray said:

Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Doc Holliday said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
That might hold water if it were anything but Cabers behaving that way.

Only a caber acts like Baylor had to football tradition before 2010.
Any at least marginally informed Baylor fan realizes that our football history prior to 2010 certainly wasn't all bad and had some successes and highlights along the way, but please inform me about when we ever had a 7 year period filled with anything even close to as much success, including a couple of championships, a Heisman winner, and 7 straight bowl games as we had from 2010 - 2016 (and the 2016 team for all intents and purposes was a depleted CAB team). And it could've and should've continued.
I looked. 2010-2016 we won 70% of our games and had two conference championships. Finished in the Top 20 nationally 4 of those years.

The next best 7-year period was 1950-1956 where we won 64.50% of our games, 3 top 20 finishes but no conference championships. An Orange Bowl loss and a Sugar Bowl win.

Pick about any 7 year period from 79-94 and you get a 60% winning percentage. 80-86 was probably the best because we had 3 top 20s and a conference championship. Expand the question to 8 years and 79-86 or 80-87 become pretty competitive.

From 1920-1926 we also won 60% + and two conference titles.

But yes-2010-2016 was the golden age of BU football.
Yeah, I'm sure the world is impressed with a 70 percent win percentage against the Woffords and Buffalos of the world while simultaneously losing to UCF and blowing a 20 point fourth quarter lead to MSU.

Meanwhile, Baylor used to play national title contenders in the out of conference schedule.

Ohio State, BYU, USC, Colorado just to name a few, all national title contenders when on the Baylor schedule in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 90s, and Baylor beat or took them to the wire one and all.

Football didn't begin and end in the half-decade you worship, don't think your ignorance of history makes you an authority.

Back when we were playing those higher profile OOC games we were also a member of the SWC which - let's face it - was by and large a crappy overall conference,
That is absolutely not true at all until SMU got the death penalty. 1987 onward the conference certainly got much weaker, but not until then. The Big 8 was an absolute joke outside of two programs - and BU had tremendous success in the non conference against them prior to joining the Big 12. No revisionist history here.
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Big12Bear said:

Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Booray said:

Johnny Bear said:

MilliVanilli said:

Doc Holliday said:

MilliVanilli said:

Timbear said:

It's the old Baylor again if we have to pencil whip everything to try to make ourselves look and feel better.
Like clockwork, the ol' Caber response comes in to crap on Baylor.

Just go buy a new t-shirt already.

Football didn't begin in 2010 and end in 2015.




I really think the whole Caber "problem" is you guys immediately deflecting to caber accusations at any and all criticism.
That might hold water if it were anything but Cabers behaving that way.

Only a caber acts like Baylor had to football tradition before 2010.
Any at least marginally informed Baylor fan realizes that our football history prior to 2010 certainly wasn't all bad and had some successes and highlights along the way, but please inform me about when we ever had a 7 year period filled with anything even close to as much success, including a couple of championships, a Heisman winner, and 7 straight bowl games as we had from 2010 - 2016 (and the 2016 team for all intents and purposes was a depleted CAB team). And it could've and should've continued.
I looked. 2010-2016 we won 70% of our games and had two conference championships. Finished in the Top 20 nationally 4 of those years.

The next best 7-year period was 1950-1956 where we won 64.50% of our games, 3 top 20 finishes but no conference championships. An Orange Bowl loss and a Sugar Bowl win.

Pick about any 7 year period from 79-94 and you get a 60% winning percentage. 80-86 was probably the best because we had 3 top 20s and a conference championship. Expand the question to 8 years and 79-86 or 80-87 become pretty competitive.

From 1920-1926 we also won 60% + and two conference titles.

But yes-2010-2016 was the golden age of BU football.
Yeah, I'm sure the world is impressed with a 70 percent win percentage against the Woffords and Buffalos of the world while simultaneously losing to UCF and blowing a 20 point fourth quarter lead to MSU.

Meanwhile, Baylor used to play national title contenders in the out of conference schedule.

Ohio State, BYU, USC, Colorado just to name a few, all national title contenders when on the Baylor schedule in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 90s, and Baylor beat or took them to the wire one and all.

Football didn't begin and end in the half-decade you worship, don't think your ignorance of history makes you an authority.

Back when we were playing those higher profile OOC games we were also a member of the SWC which - let's face it - was by and large a crappy overall conference,
That is absolutely not true at all until SMU got the death penalty. 1987 onward the conference certainly got much weaker, but not until then. The Big 8 was an absolute joke outside of two programs - and BU had tremendous success in the non conference against them prior to joining the Big 12. No revisionist history here.
Good point that the SWC did get considerably weaker after the SMU debacle and also Arkansas departing for the SEC after the '91 season was definitely another blow (probably the last nail in the coffin that ended up dooming the conference to eventual oblivion). The point remains that on balance BU has by and large played a higher number of high end programs on a per season basis since the inception of the Big 12 even taking into account the typically weak non-con schedule.
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8th bowl in 9 years. That doesn't feel right, but it's true.
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