Texas 23, Baylor 17: Longhorns finish disappointing season in style
WACO — Wounded teams are always the most dangerous. And shame on anyone who underestimates any rival. Baylor players spent considerable time in pre-game warmups chirping about how Saturday’s game would be easy. Texas was 4-7, after all. Even with a third-string quarterback, the Bears would whip the downtrodden Longhorns and go to the Sugar Bowl, right? “We just came out and had nothing to lose,” Texas tight end Alex De La Torre said. “Why not go out there and play your butt off and go win?” Running back Johnathan Gray said, “This was our bowl game.” Texas finished a disappointing season in the most uplifting way possible — by beating 12th-ranked Baylor, 23-17, at McLane Stadium. It’ll go down as Texas’ only true road win of the year, its first in Waco since 2009 and first road win over a ranked team since 2012. When historians reminisce about the …
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Sunday
October 30, 2016
WATCH: Longhorn Minute: Texas beats Baylor 35-34
American-Statesman sports writers Danny Davis and Brian Davis break down Texas’ 35-34 home game victory over No. 8 ranked Baylor on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016 in Austin, Tx. Read More
Saturday
October 29, 2016
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VIDEO: Charlie Strong on overcoming negativity to beat Baylor 35-34
Texas head coach Charlie Strong shares how his team overcame “negative noise in the system” to win 35-34 over #8 ranked Baylor at a news conference on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. Read MoreSunday
December 6, 2015
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Texas 23, Baylor 17: Five key plays
There were 157 snaps taken in Texas’ 23-17 stunning win over Baylor. Here are five that ended up making a big difference. 1. Fast start No one will mistake Texas’ offense for Clemson’s, but the schools are even in a somewhat obscure stat: plays of 40 yards or more. The Longhorns … Read More
Saturday
December 5, 2015
Football
Notebook: Swoopes, Norvell put together winning formula
WACO — In what may be their final games in their current roles, Jay Norvell and Tyrone Swoopes went out as winners. The Texas play-caller and his quarterback enjoyed their finest moments in crunch time of Saturday’s 23-17 upset over No. 12 Baylor. Twice, … Read More
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Texas vs. Baylor: Third and Longhorns
WHY TEXAS (5-7, 4-5) WON: If you’re an optimist, Texas won because it had nothing to lose, played past all the injuries and rallied around backup quarterback Tyrone Swoopes, doing just enough offensively and just enough defensively to head into this offseason happy that even on a down year, there … Read More
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Basically, it was throw-the-plan-out-the-window for QB-challenged Baylor
WACO — The Baylor offensive coaches, even the players, spent much of the second quarter in a desperate sort of fog, trying to figure out the best way to revive a game plan that was nullified by a single hit on a quarterback. Chris Johnson, the Bears’ third-string quarterback, suffered … Read More
Cedric Golden
Golden: Charlie Strong’s future depends on eliminating the blind spots
WACO — Charlie Strong came up with the most revealing answer of his two-year Texas tenure following another head-scratching Saturday. Texas’ head coach sat in the post-game interview session, the 2015 football season in the rear view, trying to make sense of how his team could manage to play so … Read More
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Texas wins the game, but melee ruled a draw
WACO — Had it been up to the initial participants, a melee involving Texas and Baylor would have never broken out. Lynx Hawthorne, whose vicious slam of Texas cornerback Duke Thomas set off a benches-clearing spectacle, had simply wished to retreat to his sideline. Thomas wanted to … Read More
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Texas 23, Baylor 17: Longhorns finish disappointing season in style
WACO — Wounded teams are always the most dangerous. And shame on anyone who underestimates any rival. Baylor players spent considerable time in pre-game warmups chirping about how Saturday’s game would be easy. Texas was 4-7, after all. Even with a third-string quarterback, the Bears would whip the downtrodden Longhorns … Read More
Kirk Bohls
Bohls: For Charlie Strong, eight is enough in 2016 … maybe
WACO — When his Texas football team reported for fall practice in August, my first question to Charlie Strong was this: Is it possible your team could be worse this season than it was last year, when it went 6-7? Strong turned his head sideways and, somewhat flustered, said, “Wow. Read More
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Texas vs. Baylor: Horns up, Horns down, plays of the game
HORNS UP Quarterback Tyrone Swoopes completed 12 of 19 passes for 151 yards and a touchdown, plus rushed 10 times for 53 yards and another score. Most important, he played turnover-free ball. Freshman running back Chris Warren III ran for 106 yards on 28 carries for his second straight 100-yard … Read More
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Bests, Worsts from Texas-Baylor
Best strategy Baylor coach Art Briles is the mastermind. Reduced to playing his fourth-string quarterback who is listed as a wide receiver, Briles went exclusively to the Wildcat offense and churned out 69 yards on eight plays for a touchdown. The Bears ran out of that alignment for 15 of … Read More
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Texas 23, Baylor 17: The expanded boxscore
FIRST QUARTER Texas 17, Baylor 0 —Hard to believe all of the following occurred in the opening 15 minutes: A brawl broke out after Duke Thomas was slammed hard following his first interception of the season; a 410-pound Baylor player took a handoff; the nation’s No. 1 offense failed … Read More
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Texas-Baylor: Our four pregame questions — answered
On Saturday morning, we asked four questions about the Texas-Baylor matchup. Here’s how they played out: WHAT DID CHRIS WARREN III DO FOR AN ENCORE? A 100-yard game. Warren had 28 carries (three more than last week) for 106 yards (170 less), with one long run of 26 … Read More
