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We're There When You Can't Be baylorlariat com The Baylor Lariat WE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE Monday | December 8, 2014 Back-to-back Big 12 Champs Vol.116 No. 49 First copy free. Additional copies 25 cents each. © 2014 Baylor University The Baylor Lariat 2 MONDAY | DECEMBER 8, 2014 Sports Bowl Issue Baylor finishes season fifth overall By Jeffery Swindoll Football Playoff committee was be- Sports Writer ing put in a harder position. All the teams in the CFP top six kept on At the start of the 2014 sea- winning, but Baylor was riding in son, Baylor head coach Art Briles the back seat for the playoff race. casted a vision for his team. Briles Tension rose to an all-time made it clear that Baylor football high after the selection committee is gunning for a repeat of winning placed TCU at No. 3, Ohio State at the Big 12 Conference title, no ex- No. 5 and Baylor at No. 6 in the fi- cuses. nal week of the regular season. The As the season went on, and the Bears would need a win against Bears garnered a bigger and big- No. 9 Kansas State and then some ger national spotlight each week. help to even have a chance at being The inaugural College Football in the final four. Debate broke out Playoffs were looming large in the all across national sports media, back of everyone’s mind. Members and Baylor was front and center. of the media constantly asked the The talking heads were at it all bears questions about the playoffs, week while the Bears were on the making it impossible for the Bears practice field and in the film room, to dodge the issue. Briles and his working towards another Big 12 players did the best they could to Championship. The Bears were not put the cart before the horse. playing with frustration, hope and First thing was first: without a con- desire at this point. Most of all was ference title, a college football play- desire, and the thing they desired off berth was out of the question. the most was a Big 12 champion- Briles knew it. His players knew it. ship. The Big 12 title was the be all, end Winning back-to-back confer- all for the Bears in 2014. ence titles, whether that be with Baylor’s 2014 Big 12 campaign the uncomfortable “co-champion” was a nine-round heavyweight label or not, is tremendous feat, fight. Repeating a championship, Briles said. The Bears believed that, in the Big 12 especially, is extreme- in and of itself, a Big 12 title would ly difficult, Briles said. be a sufficient argument to be in “That’s why Seattle is struggling the playoff. Baylor did just that. a bit this year,” Briles said. “The “We feel like [Briles] has led Pac-12, The Big 10 and the SEC, one of the greatest turnarounds those people are having new cham- in college football history,” Direc- pions. The Big 12 and the ACC re- tor of Athletics Ian McCaw said. peated. It’s tough to do. Last year it “To be in a position where Baylor SKYE DUNCAN | LARIAT PHOTOGRAPHER was a thrill, it was exciting, it was is playing for back-to-back Big 12 hopeful, and this year, it’s like what Senior nickelback Collin Brence, senior quarterback Bryce Petty and senior inside receiver Clay Fuller celebrate their 38-27 win over Kansas State and championships, it speaks to the I was saying, we got the windows Baylor’s second Big 12 Championship in a row. The Bears finished the season fifth in the College Football Playoffs rankings and will play Michigan State incredible job he has done and the rolled up and the doors locked in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1. quality of our football program. because someone is trying to get Baylor will be a force to be reck- to us and you know, we’re not tak- celebration of Baylor’s settlement and the atmosphere,” Briles said. Chris Callahan’s 28-yard field goal The Bears had not won a game oned within the Big 12 and nation- ing jabs, we’re taking haymakers. in the top 25 and the growth of its “It’s a big thrill, a great privilege, as time expired. By this point, you in Norman, Okla.; ever. Petty made ally for years to come.” They’re trying to knock us out.” once below average program. This and I’m very thankful to be a part have to have lived under a land- sure of that not sticking for much The Bears handily defeated the Weeks before the season kicked would gradually evolve into an ex- of it.” slide of rocks to not know the score longer. The fifth-year senior argu- Kansas State Wildcats 38-27, se- off, the Big 12 showcased their pose of Baylor’s exploration of the The Bears simply do not lose at of that game. 61-58. ably played his best career game on curing the Big 12 title for the sec- brand new logo and, most notably, dark unknown that looked to be home. Even against ranked oppo- After beating a conference that day against the Sooners. Briles ond year in-a-row. Baylor became their slogan ­­— “One true cham- a potential final four finish and a nents, the Bears are tried and true heavyweight in TCU, the Bears dubbed Baylor’s 48-14 thrashing of only the second school ever to win pion.” Ironically, the Big 12 is the spot in the national championship at home. This season, the Bears faltered in Morgantown, W. Va., Oklahoma the best road win in the back-to-back Big 12 titles (Okla- only ‘Power 5’ conference without for much of the season. played two of the hardest home losing 41-27. Penalties bombarded country this season. homa 2006, 2007). Regardless of a championship game. Further- For the first time ever, Baylor games in all of college football. It the Bears who scored a season-low Petty, who struggled in the ear- Baylor being left out of the national more, the Big 12 ended up having would open its season as the de- would not take long for the Bears’ in points scored and total offensive ly going of the season with streaky final four, Petty is keeping things in two champions this season, not fending Big 12 champion, which grit at home to be tested. After yards against the Mountaineers. play, silenced his critics, complet- perspective. one. just happened to be the same year spending a month on the road to In addition, the Bears entire right ing 32 of his 42 pass attempts, to- “It’s great [to be back-to-back Although the speculation and the Bears would debut their pris- start the season, including a 28-7 side of the offensive line (senior talling 387 yards and a touchdown. Big 12 champs], it really is,” Petty controversy at the national level tine new palace on the Brazos, win over Texas in Austin, the Bears tackle Troy Baker and junior guard Petty really was “ready for OU” -- a said. “I am so proud of every one shrouded Baylor’s accomplish- McLane Stadium. Overall, McLane faced their bitter rivals, No. 9 TCU, Desmine Hilliard) suffered season- phrase that he repeated in the post- of those guys in the locker room. ments this season, it was a historic was nothing short of a success. The at McLane Stadium on Oct. 11. ending injuries in Morgantown. game press conference after the There’s something about a broth- year for the Bears. Amidst the me- waterfront view and ‘sailgating’ What occurred on that day in Repeating as Big 12 champions Bears’ 60-14 victory over Kansas. erhood. When you work so hard dia mayhem, the Bears had a tough were notable additions to the Bay- Waco shattered expectations and would have to be done without one Baylor’s playoff campaign was with each other, offseason, summer season of conference competition lor game-day experience, but the would later serve as the single most of the team’s most vocal leaders picking up steam after a state- condition and fall camp, you’ve got to play. The Bears would end up greatest victory of the new stadium discussed game in the College and pound-for-pound best players. ment win over the No. 15 Sooners. a common goal that everybody as the centerpiece of college foot- was a matter of continuing a three- Football Playoff controversy. With A loss to their name made the The Bears went on to take care of is so committed to and then you ball’s biggest debate of the season, year trend in Baylor football. 11 minutes left in the game, Baylor Bears’ campaign for another cham- business against Oklahoma State reach that goal, and it happens, it’s but their journey started out inti- “You can’t find a better stadium overcame a massive 21-point lead pionship an even greater challenge at home, and somehow managed the greatest feeling in the world. mately, without much care for the in the United States of America to to topple TCU thanks to late-game to be faced in games against the to escape AT&T Stadium with a And I couldn’t be more happy than national picture. play a football game on the Brazos heroics from senior quarterback likes of Oklahoma on the road and 48-46 win over Texas Tech in Ar- of the guys I am doing it with.” The 2014 season began as a River with the bridge that we have Bryce Petty and freshman kicker Kansas State in the season finale.
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