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Game Day Thread: Baylor (9-1) vs. Texas (6-4)

November 22, 2019
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The Baylor Bears (9-1) play their final home game of the 2019 season at McLane Stadium as they welcome the Texas Longhorns (6-4) on Saturday afternoon. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. CT and will be aired live on FS1.


Baylor vs. Texas Articles

Title Author
Attacking the Texas defense Sam Bradshaw
Reflecting on the careers of the 2019 seniors Brian Ethridge
Rhule plans to stay at Baylor Colt Barber
Positive after OU game J.J. Joe
Recruiting visitor list Grayson Grundhoefer
Bears wearing gold for first time Staff
How many points does Baylor need? J.J. Joe
The Texas offense Sam Bradshaw
Texas statistical preview Sam Bradshaw
The Smoak Show: Pooh Stricklin Craig Smoak

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Matt Rhule Quote of the Week...

“They are a special, special group. They have come so far. When I first got here, that group of seniors Brian Nance, Taylor Young, Taion Sells, that was their senior year, so they were going to do what we asked. That next group, the Iras [Ira Lewis], the Gregs [Greg Roberts] and all those guys, they really came on because they wanted to get to bowl eligibility. It was this group that was always sorta in between. They weren’t the older guys, so they were still getting treated as young guys and then it was always, ‘Well, Coach Rhule prefers the guys he recruited.’ So, I have worked hard, our coaches have worked hard and they’ve worked hard to make sure we all came together. And I think you can tell based on the results of this season that we have come together. And coming together, that is not an easy thing. It’s not saying what people want to hear because you are a sophomore. Sophomores are not supposed to have a lot of success.


Baylor Key Players

Offensive guard #52 Sam Tecklenburg and Center #63 Jake Fruhmorgen — The two seniors up front for the Bears have been through some highs and lows without a doubt. They both play a position that has been riddled with lack of depth and talent for the past three years. But this year things have without a doubt gotten better and these two have been a part of that. Over the past two seasons Texas has mauled the Bears up front to the tune of six sacks, 20 tackles for loss, and 12 quarterback hurries. Time to put those woes behind them and push forward.

Wide Receiver #5 Denzel Mims — He has an opportunity to take advantage of a weak Texas secondary in his last game at McLane Stadium. He will take advantage of this opportunity against the Big 12’s 9th-ranked pass defense. On the year he sitting at 50 receptions, 767 yards, and 10 touchdowns. There is still a very good chance for him to hit the 1,000 yard mark for the second time in his career.

Defensive end #9 James Lockhart and Defensive linemen #99 Bravvion Roy — The Longhorns have given up 20 sacks in conference play (9 of those against OU). In losses this season Texas is averaging right at 3 yards per carry, well Baylor is only giving up 3.6 yards per carry. These two have played a big role in that and should get a chance to dominate up front once again. If they can take away the run and make Texas one dimensional, the Longhorns will struggle in a big way.

Cornerback #11 Jameson Houston and Safety #3 Chris Miller — Perhaps no duo on the team has taken a bigger step up than these two in the Bears secondary. Both got torched last year as the Bears defense gave up explosive play after explosive play. But this year they have consistently been keeping the ball in front of them and forcing teams to make long drives.


Texas Key Players

Quarterback #11 Sam Ehlingher — Most of his numbers are slightly up from a year ago outside of a couple categories. Last year he had 16 rushing touchdowns but that has come back down to earth and he also only threw five interceptions last season this year he has eight. Other than those stats he has been the same or better but really it has just been the offense taking a step back efficiency wise that has hurt those numbers. In the three conference losses this year he is completing just 56% of his passes, averaging 268 yards passing, has five touchdown passes, four interceptions, and two rushing touchdowns. So if he stays true to this numbers then the Bears should really be able to have success defensively.

Wide receiver #6 Devin Duvernay — Duvernay has excelled in the slot and his ability to get open across the middle of the field has been very impressive. On the season he has 87 receptions for 1,017 yards and eight touchdowns. He is going to be a problem for the Bears if they do not focus on him. Baylor has been pretty good defending outside receivers but tight ends and slot guys across the middle of the field have been a problem.

Safety #7 Caden Sterns — His presence back should help the second worst pass defense in the Big 12. He may not be having a great year but Charlie Brewer is still going to pay extra attention to this guy in the Texas secondary, especially since he picked off Brewer last season.

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Game Day Thread: Baylor (9-1) vs. Texas (6-4)

58,586 Views | 423 Replies | Last: 5 yr ago by Jacques Strap
whitetrash
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Mims drops ball again, but out of bounds when he does.
Bayloruniversity
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Saddle Up! said:

DanaDane said:

YES!!!!!!!

Has anyone come on as strong this year as Bernard? He's all over the place EVERY game.


Who thought Bernard would be able to step up like this when Clay went down. I didn't.


I did. I've always thought Bernard was a better athlete. I know there's more to being good on defense..but I'm not surprised
BearTruth13
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I hate our offense.
Saddle Up!
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Why was Mims taken out with 38 seconds, and why is Hasty in at RB in an obvious passing situation? Ebner is a much better receiver.
Ukbb2003
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Sneed...wide open
DanaDane
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The offense is pretty good at kicking itself in the nuts.
Saddle Up!
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BearTruth13 said:

I hate our offense.


Ditto.
Ukbb2003
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Good night, Powers is on fire today.
Futbol Bear
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The more I see of our offense, the less confidant I am in it, starting with the QB.
DST
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Powers is our best offensive player somehow.
jdrs
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Winner of the first half is the punter
DanaDane
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Good grief. How in the world did we give that up?
Ukbb2003
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Unreal. Now we give up 3 points possibly.
gobears20
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Staff
What a frustrating game
jdrs
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Come on defense
Jacques Strap
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What the...
DST
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****ing pathetic. Come on. Play the full 30 minutes. ****.
Dman
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Brewer is off...

If we hold on. Another game our defense wins..and our offense does "just enough".
BearTruth13
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Futbol Bear said:


The more I see of our offense, the less confidant I am in it, starting with the QB.



I crack up at all the advanced metrics people were throwing out earlier in the year. Attempting to convince us that we were a top 20 offense.
BBWCBear
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How in the *** can you let that happen from the one yard line?!!!!
hodedofome
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This kind of crap is going to lose us this game.
DanaDane
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So we gave them 3 and now it's 7-3 at the half. Should have been 7-0 if we hadn't gone to sleep.

With our offense, I hope that doesn't come back to haunt us.
JXL
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This is crazy - give up 3 points and UT gets the ball to start the 3rd. Ugh.
gobears20
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Staff
It's sad to feel like we are losing this game
Jack Bauer
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Pathetic
Jacques Strap
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3 points they should not have
DST
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3 free points thanks to an absolute garbage effort right before half. These are the kind of things that prevent you from winning conference championships.
Jacques Strap
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Well there was a little holding on that long run
BBWCBear
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Well there you go! TX gets the ball out of the half and MO has changed. Hope we don't have another "beylur"!
Ukbb2003
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DanaDane said:

So we gave them 3 and now it's 7-3 at the half. Should have been 7-0 if we hadn't gone to sleep.

With our offense, I hope that doesn't come back to haunt us.


Should be 14-0 but we like to fumble after big plays.
Saddle Up!
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It's ridiculous to see how we played on offense the first half of last week, and both the first and scoring drives today, and then see the results the rest of the time. Insulting!
Doc Holliday
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4 consecutive quarters of garbage from this team.
PartyBear
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Nixon better come up with a strategy for 2nd half. 7 points will not win this.
Johnny Bear
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Don't have a good feeling about this one at this point.
Futbol Bear
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It's a lot to ask for our defense, any defense, to play a flawless game & the pressure mounts with a sputtering offense.
 
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