Baylor FB Ventures to Face Arizona on Saturday

Saturday, November 22

Tucson, Ariz.

12 p.m.

Baylor

Arizona

Baylor FB Ventures to Face Arizona on Saturday

11/17/2025 8:20:00 AM | Football

WACO, Texas -- Baylor football will wrap up its road slate for the 2025 season, traveling to face red-hot Arizona on Saturday, with kickoff slated for 12 p.m. CT at Arizona Stadium. The game will be televised live on TNT, truTV and HBO Max, and will be broadcast live on the Baylor Sports Media Network.

The television crew for TNT has yet to be announced. The broadcast crew for the Baylor Sports Media Network will include the Voice of the Bears, John Morris (play-by-play), and BU greats Nick Florence (analyst) and Ricky Thompson (sideline).

Baylor (5-5, 3-4 Big 12 Conference) will face an Arizona (7-3, 4-3 Big 12) squad that is coming off a win at No. 22 Cincinnati last weekend, where the Wildcats used a second-half rally to clip the Bearcats with a 30-24 result at Nippert. UofA took a 10-point lead with 11 minutes left in the fourth quarter and after a UC TD drive, used a five-minute drive and a 51-yard field goal that put the Cats up six with just over 90 seconds left. The Wildcats forced a three-and-out, fueled by a first-down offensive pass interference call, on the ensuing UC drive.

QUICK NOTES
• Baylor wraps up its road schedule for 2025 with a clash at red-hot Arizona on Saturday at 12 p.m. CT at Arizona Stadium.
• The Bears are coming off a loss vs. No. 13 Utah on Saturday at McLane Stadium, as the Utes used big plays, including three TD runs of 65+ yards and a pick-6 to post the efficient win to stay in the CFP hunt.
• Baylor has won nine of its last 13 Big 12 Conference games, dating back to a 2024 six-game win streak to conclude the year. The Bears have won 11 of their last 17 games, with lone losses to Auburn, LSU, TCU, No. 21 Cincinnati, No. 13 Utah and defending league champion Arizona State on a walk-off field goal.
• QB Sawyer Robertson is the nation's leading returner in QBR (83.7), after ranking fifth nationally last year. Robertson slung 28 TDs and threw for 3,071 yards in his first season as a near full-time starter, taking over in week 3.
• Robertson leads the nation in passing yards (3,210), passing yards per game (321.0), and ranks second in passing TDs (29) and third in points (194).
• Senior WR Josh Cameron eclipsed the 2,000 receiving mark in his career vs. Utah, becoming the 12th player in program history to accomplish that feat. Cameron had 13 catches for 165 yards and two TDs, while also returning two punts for 27 yards.
• Punter Palmer Williams led the nation in punting among those who punted at least 2.5 times per game in 2024. He booted it 43 times for a 49.3 yard average, the best in school history in 2024 and he owns the program record for career yards. Baylor leads the NCAA in net punting and Williams is a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award, given annually to the nation's best punter.
• Baylor ranks No. 2 nationally in passing offense, No. 8 in first down offense, No. 7 in punt return defense, No. 36 in passing defense and No. 15 in total offense.
• Freshman Connor Hawkins is 14 of 17 in field goal attempts on the year and has made all 39 career PATs.
• Senior WR Ashtyn Hawkins ranks in the top three among active FBS NCAA players in catches and yards.
• Michael Trigg is a semifinalist for the John Mackey Award. He has shattered career and season records for receiving yards by a BU tight end and ranks in the top five among TEs in TDs, catches and yards in 2025.

SCOUTING THE CATS
• Arizona comes into the game receiving votes from both the AP and USA TODAY polls and are fresh off a thrilling win at No. 22 Cincinnati last week at Nippert Stadium.
• Coach Brent Brennan is a highly respected lead of the Wildcats in his second year. He took over Arizona after seven seasons leading San Jose State to three bowl games and the 2020 MWC Coach fo the year honor. He previously spent six years at Oregon State, with prior stints at SJSU, Cal Poly, UofA, Washington and Hawaii.
• Brennan is assisted by associate head coach Joe Salave'a, who also leads the DL, assistant head coach Alonzo Carter, the RBs coach, OC/QB Coach Seth Doege and DC Danny Gonzales. Doege was the OC at Marshall and is a Texas High School Football Coaching legacy. Gonzales was the head coach at New Mexico from 2020-23. Craig Naviar leads the special teams as one of the most veteran ST coordinators in college football that included time at SMU, Texas, Houston, Kentucky, Rice, Texas State, Sam Houston and TCU.
• The Wildcats have on three straight games, including wins over Colorado, Kansas and UC, and had a two-game losing streak, including losses vs. BYU and Houston, snapped with the win at Colorado. UofA also has wins over Hawaii, Weber State, Kansas State and Oklahoma State, falling vs. Iowa State.
• The Wildcats boast one of the nation's top passing defenses, holding foes to just 1595 yards per game, which ranks seventh best in the NCAA, and UofA's passing efficiency defense ranks third-best. UA as a team has averaged 32.7 points per game, with 412.9 yards of total offense, including 258.4 passing and 154.5 rushing. Opponents are scoring 20.3 points, with 306.2 yards per game, which ranks 19th best in the nation.
• Veteran QB Noah Fifita has thrown for 2,494 yards with 24 TDs and just four interceptions. Ismail Mahdi has 95 rushes for 645 yards and three TDs, while Kedrick Reescano has five TDs to lead the team. Kris Hutson has 41 grabs for 512 yards, while Tre Spivey leads the team with six TDs. Defensively, Dalton Johnson has 76 tackles to lead the team, while Taye Brown has 6.5 TFLs, and Riley Wilson and Chase Kennedy each have three sacks. Jay'Vion Cole has four interceptions.

LAST MEETING
• The two teams have played just once before, in the 1992 John Hancock Bowl in El Paso, a 20-15 Baylor win on Dec. 31.

BIG PLAYS POWER UTES PAST BEARS
• Baylor suffered a 55-28 loss vs. No. 13 Utah on Saturday at McLane Stadium, as Utah used a pick-6, and three TD rushes of at least 65 yards to roll to the win.
• Utah totaled 380 yards of rushing offense to keep the Bears off balance, despite another stat-stuffing outing from QB Sawyer Robertson, who threw for 430 yards and three TDs. WR Josh Cameron set new career highs with 13 catches and 165 yards, owning two TDs, while Ashtyn Hawkins had seven grabs for 119 yards and Kole Wilson had four catches for 87 yards.
• The Bears fell behind 14-0 in the first quarter despite a strong defensive start that forced a pair of stops. The Utes used a long TD run and a pick-6 to build a lead it wouldn't relinquish. The Bears got within a score in the third quarter, but Utah used a 20-point fourth quarter to push it out of reach.

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