Bears Look to Stretch Street Win Streak to Six, Journey to TCU

WACO, Texas — Winners of 10 of its final 13 video games, and eight of its final 9 convention video games, Baylor soccer will journey to face TCU with a five-game street successful streak on the road, with kickoff on Saturday slated for 11 a.m. The sport will likely be televised stay on ESPN2 and will likely be broadcast stay on the Baylor Sports Media Network.

The sport will likely be voiced on ESPN2 by Lowell Galindo (play-by-play), Aaron Murray (analyst) and Lauren Sisler (sideline). On the Baylor Sports Media Network, John Morris (play-by-play), Nick Florence (analyst) and Ricky Thompson (sideline) will name the motion.

Baylor (4-2, 2-1 Big 12 Conference) will face off with TCU (4-2, 1-2 Big 12) in probably the most performed rivalry sport within the state of Texas, with the outing marking the 121^st assembly within the collection.

The Bears enter the sport within the midst of one of many hottest stretches in program historical past. Baylor has received eight of its final 9 convention video games, have received 10 of its final 13 video games – together with 10 of 12 within the regular-season – and solely have losses throughout the streak to Auburn, LSU and defending convention champion Arizona State. It marks the fifth such stretch in program historical past, when the Bears have received no less than eight of 9 convention video games, additionally coming in 1979, 1984-85, 2012-13, 2014-15 and 2018-19.

SCOUTING THE FROGS
• TCU enters the matchup recent off a 41-28 loss at Kansas State to personal a 4-2 report and a 1-2 mark in Big 12 Conference play. The Frogs have wins over North Carolina, Abilene Christian, SMU and Colorado, falling in a 27-24 matchup at Arizona State earlier than the Ok-State loss.
• TCU averages 35.3 factors, 439 yards, together with 322.3 passing and 116.7 speeding, as a workforce in 2025. Opponents are averaging 24.7 factors, 372.8 yards, 240.7 passing and 132.2 speeding yards per sport. The Frogs personal a eye-popping 54% conversion charge on third downs.
• QB Josh Hoover is in passing throwing for 1,893 yards with 18 TDs and 6 interceptions as one of many nation’s most extremely touted sign callers. Jordan Dwyer leads the workforce with 25 catches for 357 yards, whereas Eric McAlister has a team-high seven TDs on simply 21 catches, good for 541 yards. UTSA switch Kevorian Barnes has toted it 49 occasions for 285 yards with one TD. Trent Battle has added 159 yards speeding and three TDs. Jamal Johnson and Kaleb Elarms-Orr lead the workforce with 48 tackles every. Johnson has a team-leading three interceptions.
• TCU is coached by Sonny Dykes, who’s in his fourth 12 months as the top coach for the Frogs after spending 4 years as the top coach at SMU. Dykes went 30-18 at SMU, together with a 25-10 mark over his final three seasons, serving to direct the Mustangs to 465.9 yards per sport offensively in 2021, Thirteenth-best within the nation. Dykes beforehand served as the top coach at Cal for 4 years (2013-16), and three years at Louisiana Tech (2010-12). He served as an assistant at Arizona, underneath Mike Stoops, Texas Tech, underneath Mike Leach, and Kentucky, underneath Air Raid inventor Hal Mumme. Dykes and Baylor Coach Dave Aranda served on the identical employees at Texas Tech, the place Dykes was the receivers coach whereas Aranda was a graduate assistant from 2000-02.
• Andy Avalos is in his second season because the defensive coordinator at TCU after beforehand serving three years as the top coach at Boise State, the place he was named the Mountain West Coach of the Year in 2022 with a 10-4 report. He beforehand served because the defensive coordinator at Oregon (2019-20) and Boise State (2016-18), along with time on the employees at Colorado (2006-08), Sacramento State (2011) and Nebraska-Kearney (2009-10).
• Kendal Briles, the son of former Baylor head coach Art Briles, is in his third season because the affiliate head coach and offensive coordinator, after spending the three years in the identical position at Arkansas. Kendal was on the Baylor employees for 9 years.
• A.J. Ricker is the fourth-year co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach who beforehand spent two years at SMU, following time at Kansas (2018), and serving as offensive analyst at Oklahoma State (2017) and Houston (2018), additionally teaching the offensive line at Missouri (2014-15). Malcom Kelly serves because the assistant head coach, a job he has had since March of 2019, after teaching two seasons at Houston as a GA and analyst (2017-18).

CONNECTING THE TEAMS
• Baylor at TCU have a number of connections, most notably that BU head coach Dave Aranda and TCU head coach Sonny Dykes served on the identical Mike Leach employees at Texas Tech from 2000-02. TCU OC Kendal Briles spent almost a decade on the Baylor employees working for his father, Art, serving as the within receivers coach from 2008-11, receivers coach from 2012-14 and because the offensive coordinator from 2015-16. Assistant AD for Football Human Performance Kaz Kazadi labored on the power employees at Baylor from 2008-16. TCU linebackers coach Josh Bookbinder is the grandson of BU legendary head coach Grant Teaff, and was the defensive QC for Baylor from 2019-21 and is a 2009 Baylor graduate. First-year WR coach Corey Coleman received the 2015 Biletnikoff Award because the nation’s prime receiver for the Bears, incomes a pair of All-America honors, a part of a profession the place he set the college report for TD coaches in a season and profession. Safeties coach Brian Norwood was the affiliate head coach and safeties coach at Baylor from 2008-14.
• Baylor first 12 months defensive pass-game coordinator and cornerbacks coach Paul Gonzales spent the 2012-24 seasons on the defensive employees at TCU, spanning a pair of coaches. Gonzales was a GA in 2012-14, was CBs coach from 2015-17 and coached the safeties from 2018-24.
• BU tight ends coach Jarrett Anderson spent the 1998-2021 seasons on the employees at TCU, a 24-year tenure with the Frogs that noticed him function a GA, WR coach (2009-13), co-offensive coordinator/TEs (2009-13), OL (2014-16), IWR/TE (2017-19) and OL (2020-21). He earned his graduate diploma from TCU in 2000.

LAST MEETING
• Baylor received its third straight as a part of a six-game win streak to finish the 12 months, utilizing an exhilarating end to edge TCU 37-34 in 2024 in entrance of the primary blackout crowd since 2017 at McLane Stadium.
• In a back-and-forth thriller the Bears earned their first win over TCU at dwelling since 2014, utilizing a livid speeding assault that noticed RB Bryson Washington rush for 196 yards and 4 TDs – together with 12 carries for 96 yards and two TDs within the fourth quarter. The Bears rolled to 31 first downs and 499 yards of whole offense, together with 257 on the bottom. QB Sawyer Robertson threw for 242 yards and rushed 9 occasions for 28 yards.
• TCU took a 17-13 lead into halftime as QB Josh Hoover rushed and threw for a TD and the Frogs nailed a 46-yard discipline aim. After a discipline aim to open the ultimate stanza, the Bears answered with a 75-play drive to even the sport on a Dawson Pendergrass TD rush. The groups then traded TDs till Washington’s fourth TD of the sport got here to cap an 81-play drive with 4:54 left within the fourth quarter. TCU drove 75 yards to even the sport at 34 with a Jack Bech TD cross with 2:59 left. Baylor then drove 59 performs – together with a key fourth and 9 conversion cross to Michael Trigg at midfield and arrange for the game-winning 33-yard discipline aim from Hankins as time expired, setting off a joyous celebration that noticed the sphere rushed in jubilation.

THE 2023 MEETING IN FTW
• Baylor suffered a 42-17 loss at TCU to finish its street schedule in 2023 with a 2-2 mark.
• TCU obtained 412 yards and two TDs passing from Josh Hoover, who added a speeding TD, with Emani Bailey speeding for 2 scores and 52 yards.
• Baylor noticed Dominic Richardson catch a TD from Blake Shapen, Richardson’s first TD as a Bear, and rush for 71 yards. Shapen threw and rushed for a rating, finishing 20 of 30 passes. TE Drake Dabney broke the BU single-season report for receiving yards with a 4 catch, 77-yard sport.
• Linebacker Matt Jones totaled 11 tackles to steer the protection.

SERIES HISTORY
• TCU leads the all-time collection, 59-54-7 with Baylor.
• TCU has received 4 of the final 5 conferences, with Baylor successful in 2024.
• The assembly would be the 121st all-time assembly within the collection, the most-played rivalry sport within the state of Texas.

STUDENT GOVERNMENTS ELECT TO CALL THIS THE BLUEBONNET BATTLE
• In 2023, the scholar governments of Baylor and TCU banded collectively to create a brand new title for the Baylor-TCU soccer sport, dubbing it the Bluebonnet Battle.
• The athletics division management from each faculties had been energetic in discussions with the Big 12 Conference concerning the brand new scheduling matrix with the expansion of the league, working in an effort to keep up the sport as an annual protected rivalry. The league introduced that the sport can be considered one of simply 4 protected video games within the league scheduling mannequin.
• The sport will likely be performed for the 121st time on Saturday, marking the most-played sport within the state of Texas.
• From the SGAs 2023 press launch asserting the sport: The Bluebonnet Battle trophy will likely be a round battle defend, hand solid in metal by Baylor alumnus Bryant Stanton of Stanton Studios in Waco, Texas. The face of the defend will function the logos of each universities, the define of the State of Texas, adorned with Bluebonnets on both aspect and boldly displaying the rivalry’s official title. It will likely be two-and-a-half toes large and relaxation in a mesquite picket base adorned with the lone star of Texas.

JACOB REDDING STARS
• Baylor sophomore security Jacob Redding has emerged as among the best gamers on the protection, incomes a beginning job early within the 12 months and constantly making massive performs for the Bears.
• Redding introduced himself as greater than only a former walk-on within the comeback win at SMU, choosing off a red-zone cross that helped gasoline the comeback. Following that sport it has been pure confidence constructing for the native of New Braunfels, Texas, all coming to a head within the comeback win over Kansas State. Redding picked off a cross, with the Bears trailing by sixth late within the fourth quarter, and motored 66 yards for a pick-6 to present BU its first lead for the reason that second quarter.
• Redding was named the Burlsworth Trophy Walk-On of the Week following the efficiency and graded as by PFF as Baylor’s highest rated defender within the win, with a 91.7 mark.

SAWDAWG’S ACCOLADE LIST GROWS
• Sawyer Robertson’s season accolade checklist continues to develop because the nation is taking discover of the nation’s main passer.

Robertson Awards in 2025
Week 5 – Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week
Week 5 – Davey O’Brien Award Great 8
Week 5 – Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Honorable Mention
Week 2 – AP National Player of the Week
Week 2 – Walter Camp Award National Offensive Player of the Week
Week 2 – Davey O’Brien Award National Quarterback of the Week
Week 2 – Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week
Week 2 – Manning Award Stars of the Week
Week 2 – Davey O’Brien Award Great 8
Week 2 – Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Honorable Mention
Davey O’Brien Award Watch List
Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch List
Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Watch List
Maxwell Award Watch List
Manning Award Watch List
William V. Campbell Trophy Semifinalist
Wuerffel Trophy Watch List
Senior Bowl Top 300 List
Preseason First-Team All-Big 12 (Phil Steele)
Preseason Second-Team All-Texas (DCTF)
Preseason Third-Team All-Big 12 (Athlon, Pick Six Previews)

TRIGG’S CASE FOR MACKEY AWARD
• Baylor senior Michael Trigg is making a case for the John Mackey Award, given to the nation’s prime tight finish. The senior leads the nation amongst TEs with receptions, yards and TDs. His displaying within the comeback win over Ok-State featured the highest play on SportsHeart, a one-handed lefty seize that helped drive a late-fourth quarter rating.

BAYLOR RALLIES PAST KANSAS STATE
• Baylor received its second straight sport with a livid fourth-quarter comeback to prime Kansas State 35-34 at McLane Stadium.
• The Bears noticed an early lead and a halftime tie erased with 21 straight factors from Ok-State, together with two straight TDs to personal a 31-17 margin halfway by way of the fourth quarter. Baylor responded with a fast three-play, 82 yard drive with 8:50 left within the fourth, utilizing a pair of dynamic catches from Michael Trigg, to chop the lead, changing a two-point conversion to slim the result in six. After permitting a pair of gutting third-down conversions to the Cats on the following drive, Jacob Redding picked off a third-down cross and rumbled 66 yards for a rating to present the Bears a 32-31 lead with 4:28 left. Kansas State responded with a 72 yard drive, however BU’s protection stiffened contained in the five-yard line, forcing a KSU discipline aim to present the Cats a 34-32 lead with 1:48 left. Baylor then marked 28 yards to place Connor Hawkins in place for a 53-yard, game-winning discipline aim that gave the Bears a 35-34 lead. Ok-State marked down the sphere within the remaining 31 seconds however had their 54 yard, potential walk-off discipline aim blocked by Cooper Lanz to safe the win.
• Sawyer Robertson threw for 345 yards and two scores, freshman Michael Turner had his first profession TD rush and Bryson Washington and Kobe Prentice every had catches. Trigg had the perfect single sport in Baylor tight finish historical past, going for profession highs in catches (eight) and yards (155).

UP NEXT
• Baylor will journey to face Cincinnati on Oct. 25 within the Queen City.