Baylor Football Credential Request 2025
The Baylor Athletics Communications Office appreciates your interest in Baylor Football and looks forward to assisting you during the upcoming season. Our offices are located on the second floor of the Simpson Athletics and Academic Center on South University Parks Drive.
To better assist in your coverage, please take time to read this information. These policies have been established in consideration of the media’s needs, as well as those of Baylor’s student-athletes and coaches to create a positive work environment for all concerned.
If additional information or assistance is required, please contact Brent Ingram, Associate AD for Communications, or another member of the Baylor Athletic Communications staff. We appreciate your coverage of Baylor Football and look forward to working with you this season.
MEDIA CREDENTIALS
Media outlets interested in covering Baylor football on either a season or single-game basis are requested to submit all applications for credentials through this portal. Requests made within five days of the game may not be considered.
Credentials will be sent to the visiting school’s media relations director for distribution. Credentials can also be picked up in the Athletics Communications Office located at the Simpson Center or on game day at the McLane Stadium media entrance (located near gate B on the northwest corner of McLane Stadium).
Media parking at McLane Stadium is available on a limited basis. Parking information will be included with media credentials. Requests for parking passes should be made along with your credential request well in advance to the Athletics Communications Office.
UNAUTHORIZED CREDENTIAL USE
Credentials will be issued to working media only. Media credentials are not transferable and use by anyone other than members of the working media is unauthorized. Working media are not permitted to request autographs or take photos with student-athletes or coaches under any circumstance. Media credentials used in an unauthorized manner will be revoked immediately. News organizations allowing unauthorized individuals to use credentials will have their credentials revoked immediately.
WEB-BASED MEDIA
Web-based media from sites affiliated with established, nationally recognized news-gathering organizations are eligible for media credentials.
Credentials will not be granted to any online agency operating sites that are in any way affiliated with gambling. Nor will credentials be granted to “fan-submitted” or un-edited sites that are not affiliated with an established news-gathering organization and/or sites whose sole entity is fan-generated message boards that allow the posting of anonymous comments.
MCLANE STADIUM SIDELINES
Baylor follows guidelines set forth by the NCAA Public Relations Committee, the NCAA Football Rules Committee, the American Football Coaches Association and the National Press Photographers Association. Photographers are not permitted to shoot between the 25-yard lines and must wear photo vests and have credentials visible at all times.
In an effort to promote the best possible working conditions for media photographers, uniformed security personnel will be patrolling the sidelines. Anyone holding a media credential who is not actively involved in coverage of the game will be escorted from the sideline. Similar procedures will be in effect in the press box.
POSTGAME INTERVIEWS
Baylor’s locker room is closed to the media at home and on the road. Interviews will be conducted after a cooling-down period, and outside of the originating broadcast network, no interviews will be conducted on the field. At McLane Stadium, the home postgame interview room is located on the service (ground) level directly off the media entrance (elevator lobby) in the Northwest corner of the facility.
Baylor Coach Dave Aranda and selected players will be available approximately 15 minutes following the game (video of Aranda will air on pressbox TVs). Baylor University is committed to a policy of equal access for both male and female reporters and photographers.
The visiting team interview room at McLane Stadium is located inside the Southeast ramp from the field on the service (ground) level and the visiting SID will establish visiting locker room admittance policies.
