• Baylor hosts Texas at 11 a.m. Saturday at McLane Stadium for the 111th all-time series meeting.
• The 110 meetings between Baylor and Texas are BU's second-most against any opponent (TCU-116).
• Baylor is 5-6 against Texas since snapping a 12-game series losing streak in 2010.
• Baylor is bowl-eligible within the first 7 games of a season for the 6th time in the last 9 seasons. BU has been bowl-eligible 10 times in the last 12 seasons following a 15-season drought (1995-2009).
• Baylor's lone loss of the season was on the road at No. 19 Oklahoma State, where the Bears twice had possession down 3 points in the 4th quarter before eventually falling 24-14.
• BU has two wins against ranked opponents this season (No. 14 Iowa State and No. 19 BYU), marking the first time the Bears have beaten two ranked teams in a season's first 7 games since 1985.
• BU racked up 534 yards of offense and played penalty-free in the win over No. 19 BYU on Oct. 16.
• The win over BYU was Baylor's first penalty-free game in program history.
• Baylor has 84 wins since 2011, 2nd-most in the state of Texas behind only Texas A&M (90).
• BU leads the Big 12 in turnover margin (+0.9) and interceptions (8), and BU is tied for the nation's lead with only 1 interception thrown this season (tied with Pittsburgh, Toledo, Ole Miss and CCU).
• Baylor is 1 of 4 Power-5 teams ranked top-25 nationally in scoring offense and scoring defense (BU, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State). BU is 14th in scoring offense (38.3) and 19th in scoring defense (18.7).
• Baylor ranks 6th nationally with 13 fourth-down conversions, including 6 times in its own territory.
• Baylor's offense leads the Big 12 and ranks 3rd nationally, averaging 7.29 yards per play.
• BU is 9th nationally with 238.3 rushing yards per game after ranking 123rd last season (90.3 ypg).
• Baylor's O-Line has allowed only 6 sacks, tied for 7th-fewest nationally (4th in Power-5)
• BU has forced twice as many turnovers (28) as it has allowed (14) in 16 games under Dave Aranda.
• Six different Baylor players have intercepted passes this season, accounting for a Big 12-best 8 INTs.
• BU is the only team with two players ranked top-20 nationally in rushing yards per carry – Abram Smith (4th, 7.48) and Trestan Ebner (14th, 6.44). Smith is 10th nationally in both rushing TDs (10) and rushing ypg (112.1).

ADDITIONAL NOTES
• Baylor returned 17 of 22 starters and 54 of 68 letterman from last season's team.
• The Bears welcomed four new assistant coaches for 2021 – Jeff Grimes (Offensive Coordinator/TEs), Eric Mateos (Offensive Line), Chansi Stuckey (Wide Receivers) and Kevin Curtis (Cornerbacks).
• The Bears added a pair of experienced O-Line transfers with Jacob Gall (13 starts at Buffalo) and Grant Miller (16 starts at Vanderbilt). Four members of the O-Line now have a combined 103 career starts.
• BU returned 7 starters on offense, led by OL Connor Galvin and Xavier Newman-Johnson now with 30 starts apiece.
• Baylor's defense returned 10 starters from a unit which allowed only 203.0 passing yards per game last season, second-best in the Big 12. BU has allowed 198.9 passing ypg in 7 games this year (15th-fewest in Power-5).
• Baylor's five starting defensive backs have a combined 210 career games played and 110 career starts. CB Raleigh Texada has a team-high 36 career starts, including each of the last 30 games.
• BU is playing its 120th season of football and holds a 615-585-44 (.512) all-time record. Baylor has scored in a school-record 181-straight games - doubling the previous record of 89 games from Dec. 31, 1979 - Oct. 23, 1987.
• The Bears are the only team ranked in the Big 12's top-4 in scoring offense (3rd) and scoring defense (3rd).
• BU defeated No. 14 Iowa State on Sept. 25 for its first ranked win since 2015.

TEXAS SERIES HISTORY
• Baylor takes on Texas for the 111th time on Saturday. The Bears trail 27-79-4 in the all-time series.
• Baylor is 5-6 against Texas since snapping a 12-game series losing streak with a 30-22 win in Austin in 2010.
• Baylor has out-scored Texas 301-275 in series meetings since 2010, going 5-6 vs. UT in that span. All five of those wins against Texas were by 8+ points (+17.4 average margin in wins), while four of the six losses were by six or fewer points (-10.2 average margin in losses).
• Baylor's rivalry with Texas is the Bears' second-most played behind only TCU (116 games), while the Bears are Texas' third-most played rival behind only Oklahoma (116 games) and Texas A&M (118 games).

GRIMES BRINGS RVO TO WACO
• Offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes has brought RVO to Waco - "Reliable Violent Offense" - an attacking, multiple-formation offense that runs a few plays a lot of ways with as much misdirection as any team in the country.
• Under Grimes, Baylor's offense leads the Big 12 in total offense (471.7 ypg), yards per play (7.29), yards per rush (6.09) and fewest sacks allowed (6). The Bears are third in the league in passing efficiency (163.6).
• Baylor's offense ranks 4th nationally in interception percentage, with only 1 of 179 passes intercepted.
• Grimes' 2020 BYU offense finished 3rd nationally in scoring (43.5 ppg) and 7th in total offense (522.2 ypg).
• Joining Grimes in making the move from Provo to Waco was offensive line coach Eric Mateos, who spent the past two seasons at BYU. Mateos' offensive line ranked 8th nationally in 2020 with 1.0 sacks allowed per game, and the Bears currently rank 8th nationally with only 0.86 sacks allowed per game in 2021.

FOURTH DOWN SUCCESS
• Baylor leads the Big 12 with 13 fourth-down conversions, three more than any other team in the league (KSU-10).
• BU is 13-of-18 on fourth downs (72%), the nation's 6th-best conversion rate among teams with 15+ attempts.
• Baylor has been stopped on 4th-and-3 or less only one time all season (12-of-13 converted).
• The five times Baylor has been stopped on fourth downs have led to only 7 points allowed on the opponents' ensuing drives, while the Bears have turned the 13 conversions into 52 points on their drives.
• BU has gone 6-for-7 on 4th downs in its own territory, converting 4th-and-1 (own 34) at TXST, 4th-and-3 (own 37) vs. TXSO, 4th-and-3 (own 46) at KU, 4th-and-2 (own 45) at OSU, 4th-and-1 (own 34) vs. WVU and 4th-and-1 (own 37) vs. WVU. The only failed attempt in its own territory was 4th-and-4 (own 36) at OSU.
• Of the 7 fourth-down attempts in its own territory, the six conversions have led to 31 points for Baylor's offense, while the BU defense forced a 3-and-out punt immediately after the lone failed attempt.

BEARS ARE BOWL-ELIGIBLE ONLY 7 GAMES IN
• Baylor is bowl-eligible seven games into a season for the sixth time in nine years since 2013.
• Prior to 2013, Baylor went 27-consecutive seasons without starting 6-1 or better through a season's first seven games (1986-2012). The Bears were 6-1 or better only 4 times from the end of World War II through 2012.
• The Bears have been 6-1 or better through the first seven games 17 times in the program's 120 seasons (1915, 1916, 1928, 1929, 1935, 1937, 1942, 1949, 1953, 1980, 1985, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021).
• Baylor has also won at least 3 of its first 4 Big 12 games for the 6th time in the last 9 seasons. Prior to 2013, BU was 3-1 or better in Big 12 play only twice in the league's first 17 seasons (2006, 2010).

RANKED IN 9 OF LAST 12 SEASONS
• With its No. 21 ranking in the Sept. 26 AP Top 25, Baylor has now been ranked in the AP Top 25 in 9 of 12 seasons since 2010, after going 17 years between national rankings (1993-2010).
• The Bears climbed from receiving no votes in the AP poll in any of the first three weeks to No. 21 after their win over No. 14 Iowa State on Sept. 25. The win was Baylor's first over a ranked opponent since 2015.
• Baylor is up to No. 16 in this week's AP Top 25, BU's highest since ranking No. 13 in the final 2019 poll.

BOWL ELIGIBLE FOR 10TH TIME SINCE 2010
• BU is bowl-eligible for the 10th time in 12 seasons since 2010.
• Baylor went 15 years without a bowl bid between the 1994 Alamo Bowl and the 2010 Texas Bowl.
• Baylor's 10 bowls in 12 years is unprecedented in program history. Baylor's first 10 bowl games were over a 33- year span (1948-1980) and its 10 most recent bowls prior to 2010 were over a 32-year span (1963-1994).

BEARS AMONG BIG 12'S BEST DEFENSES
• Baylor's defense leads the Big 12 passing defense efficiency (118.5) and interceptions (8). The Bears also allow only 198.9 passing yards per game, which ranks 2nd in the Big 12.
• Baylor's defense has allowed only 201.2 passing yards per game in 16 games under head coach Dave Aranda.
• BU's defense has had 3 interceptions in a game twice this season – Sept. 4 at Texas State; JT Woods, Jalen Pitre and Jairon McVea and Oct. 2 at Oklahoma State; Raleigh Texada, JT Woods and Dillon Doyle.
• The Bears held Kansas to 57 passing yards, the 2nd-fewest by a BU defense in Big 12 play in the last 20 seasons, eclipsed only by the 54 passing yards allowed to Texas in the 2013 de-facto Big 12 Championship game.

MILESTONES TO WATCH
• Trestan Ebner (3,817) needs 183 all-purpose yards to become BU's 7th player with 4,000 career all-purpose yards.
• Ebner will play his 55th career game on Saturday, 2nd-most in program history (record is Chris Platt-57).
• Ebner needs 113 rushing yards to become the 25th BU player with 1,500+ career rushing yards. He's currently 29th on Baylor's all-time rushing yards list and can move up to 25th with 95 rushing yards.
• R.J. Sneed (1,389) needs 111 receiving yards to become BU's 20th player with 1,500 career receiving yards.
• Tyquan Thornton (1,841) needs 159 receiving yards to become BU's 11th player with 2,000 career receiving yards.
• Terrel Bernard (12.0) needs 1 sack to become the 10th player in program history with 13.0+ career sacks.
• Abram Smith (785) needs 215 rushing yards for the 15th 1,000-yard rushing season in program history. His current total of 785 rushing yards are the most in a season since Terence Williams' 1,048 in 2016.

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