12/4 Daily Bears Report- The Morning After
Yesterday's game was obviously a big win for Baylor University, but the best day in recent Baylor football history could be today when the bowls are announced. I'm going to provide links below to all of the bowl projections I can find to try and amass information; from what I can tell, though, K-State is primed to jump into a BCS at-large bid, giving the Big XII two BCS teams (OSU and K-State) and basically assuring Baylor a spot in the Alamo Bowl. Oh but if only the Cotton would look past the allure of our neighbors to the north and realize they could have a Heisman candidate in a Big XII-SEC matchup on their field...
Robert Griffin III obviously gets a ridiculous amount of love around here (as he should, he's incredible), but I wanted to highlight once again the most underrated player, I think, in Baylor football history: Terrance Ganaway. Ganaway's day yesterday, 23 rushes for 152 yards and 2 TDs, against the best defense in the Big XII capped off a year that saw him set a new single-season Baylor rushing record and run for over 1300 yards and 16 TDs. By any account, Terrance Ganaway had the single best year for a running back in Baylor history. Terrance Ganaway.
My appreciation of Ganaway has always been colored (wrongly, I see now) by what I was told about Ganaway when he first got to Baylor: he was overweight, out of shape, lacked desire, and would be at his best a poor man's Jorvorskie Lane. Even going into this season, the people I talked to expected that Jared Salubi would become the featured back due to his quickness and Ganaway would be relegated to a specialist role in short-yardage. All he did after that was set records. An absolutely incredible year from a player we're going to miss, to be sure. A year that should be remembered and highlighted when people say "yeah, but all you had was RGIII."
First to the bowl projections:
- Bowl projections: Final day drama boosts some - College Football - Rivals.com
- Bowl projections look at LSU-Alabama, LSU-Oklahoma State ripples - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
- College Bowl Games - 2011 College Bowl Projections and Schedules - ESPN
- Complete 2011-12 Bowl Projections: What If Oklahoma State Does Jump Alabama? - SBNation.com
- I'll add more as I find them or I'll put them in the comments.
Now on to the links:
- Robert Griffin III Clarifies The Race | Heismanpundit- Read this.
- LSU is No. 1, followed by Alabama then Oklahoma State - USATODAY.com. Baylor moved up to 16th in the Coaches Poll, behind TCU at 15...
- Baylor is now 15th in the AP Poll, which could be a good indicator of where we end up in the BCS. The AP has typically had us 2-3 spots lower than the BCS rankings because the computers (thank you Sagarin and Massey) love the Big XII.
- I’ve been a Baylor Bears fan for as long as I can remember. | SportsJustice | a Chron.com blog
- QUICK HITS: Baylor 48 Texas 24 - CBSSports.com
- Griffin leads No. 19 Baylor over Texas 48-24 - Houston Chronicle
- Strickland: Sloppy play, RG3 do in Texas - Big 12 Blog - ESPN
- RG3 makes a statement in signature win - Big 12 Blog - ESPN
- Video: Robert Griffin III on Baylor's win - Big 12 Blog - ESPN
- Instant analysis: Baylor 48, Texas 24 - Big 12 Blog - ESPN
- RG3 giving Heisman voters a tough task - Big 12 Blog - ESPN
- Carlton: Mistakes plague Texas quarterback McCoy | Texas Longhorns News - Sports News for Dallas, Texas - SportsDayDFW
- The Associated Press: Griffin leads No. 19 Baylor over Texas 48-24
- Baylor's Griffin shows he's a legit Heisman contender in rout over Texas | The Republic
- Texas vs. Baylor: Five questions answered
- RGIII’s Heisman stock keeps rising in win over Texas | CollegeFootballTalk
- RG3, No. 19 Baylor whip Texas - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com
- Robert Griffin carries the banner across the finish line as Baylor’s best ever - Dr. Saturday - NCAAF Blog - Yahoo! Sports
- Stiff Arm Trophy: Who is the most outstanding college football player in America?
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Ever since his gaffe a few weeks ago, Mike DiRocco has done everything he can to help Baylor out.
Voted us tenth in the latest AP Poll.
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SportsbyBrooks, always the erstwhile reporter of solid fact...
Says Mack Brown will be forced out at Texas.
RIIGGGGHHHHTTTT.
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yeah, not going to happen lol
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
Cedric Golden wrote about RGIII this morning...
http://www.statesman.com/sports/longhorns/robert-griffin-iii-shows-hes-got-what-it-2011007.html
Saturday’s 48-24 win over the Texas Longhorns came in front of a national television audience, which provided the perfect backdrop for what turned out to be a Baylor coronation. RG3 announced with his play that he is the best college football player on the planet. Better than Luck. Better than Barkley. Better than Richardson and Ball. He has one year of eligibility remaining, but we all know that he won’t be back .
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We do?
He doesn’t seem like a lock for the top 15 in the draft, yet he could put himself up there the following year…especially in a draft without Luck, Landry Jones, and maybe Barkley.
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by Prashanth Francis on Dec 4, 2011 4:41 PM CST up reply actions
Bruce Feldman talks about why he voted RGIII for the Heisman
A few hours from now I will submit my official Heisman ballot. A player from Baylor is going to be listed in the No. 1 spot. I still can quite get over that. Before last season, the Bears hadn’t been to a bowl game of any kind in 16 years. The program has only produced one guy who won any of the national individual awards in the past 25 years, and he was a punter.
Yet, here we are. In the first week of December, there is no player who seems more deserving of the title “Most Outstanding Player” in the country than a Baylor Bear, Robert Griffin III. The world-class hurdler bolted out of the gate with a spectacular performance in the opening week of the season, carving up an TCU defense that, when we last saw Gary Patterson’s team, was winning the Rose Bowl. The Horned Frogs were the stingiest defense in the country in 2010. RG3 lit them up for 50. And he didn’t slow down much, if at all, from there.
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JpPalm of CollegeBCS.com is projecting 2 Big XII teams in the BCS.
https://twitter.com/#!/jppalm/status/143407514606776320
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projects a baylor and arkansas cotton bowl also i believe
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
On your chances of jumping Oklahoma to get in the cotton bowl...
Typically I would say that you guys would get screwed and the bid would go to Oklahoma, solely because of their brand name. But this year might just be a different case. Baylor has quickly become one of the hottest teams in America. One would hope that the cotton bowl selection committee would take the following into consideration:
1) You just dethroned Oklahoma a mere two weeks ago with the majority of the nation watching.
2) You did so with the most electrifying player in the nation.
3) Oklahoma followed this up by getting plastered by their ‘little brother’ in front of a national audience just two weeks later.
4) Baylor, on the other hand, demolished their ‘big brother’ just two weeks later.
5) Oklahoma came into the season thinking anything but a national title would be a disappointment. This equates to an apathetic fan base.
6) A mere 4 weeks ago, Baylor was just hoping to secure a bowl bid; instead Baylor has become one of the hottest teams in the nation. This equates to an ecstatic fan base.
When you take all of this into account, all of the textbook reasons for choosing Oklahoma over Baylor have vanished. Baylor will have no problem filling up their share of the seats. Additionally, Baylor may actually bring in better TV rankings than Oklahoma would this year. Now I’m a Hogs fan, and it is looking increasingly likely that we will be placed in the cotton bowl. Facing Baylor is not something that excites me. Our defense has a lot of talent, but it is a very inconsistent unit. When the Razorback D is not on its game, it has the ability to make ho-hum QBs look like heisman candidates. I shudder to think what RG3 will do. But at the end of the day, Baylor deserves the cotton. It will be a travesty if y’all don’t get that bid.
by coastalrazorback on Dec 4, 2011 1:19 PM CST reply actions
Arky fan, I'm assuming.
Would that be a game you want to see? (Arky would almost definitely be favored.)
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by Mark C. Moore on Dec 4, 2011 1:20 PM CST up reply actions
Yes and no...
I actually live in coastal Alabama, so I really want the Hogs to go to the Cap one, but it looks like they will select South Carolina because of location. As for the actual game itself, yes I would love to see a Baylor/Arkansas match-up. It has all the makings for an exciting back-and-forth shoot out.
by coastalrazorback on Dec 4, 2011 1:27 PM CST up reply actions
just for clarification...
I would be able to go to the Cap one game, but wouldn’t make the trip for the Cotton.
by coastalrazorback on Dec 4, 2011 1:28 PM CST up reply actions
Would that matchup excite you?
And in general, which bowl game do most Baylor fans want?
by coastalrazorback on Dec 4, 2011 1:34 PM CST up reply actions
As good as we can possibly get, I think.
If we got Alamo, I would expect Baylor to blow out Washington (the likely Pac12 opponent). If we got Cotton, I would expect us to lose to Arkansas in a thrilling game. But it would probably be worth it, I think, just to get there.
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by Mark C. Moore on Dec 4, 2011 1:36 PM CST up reply actions
Gotcha
Congrats on the exciting and memorable regular season.
by coastalrazorback on Dec 4, 2011 1:39 PM CST up reply actions
Agree with this.
Lots of points, butnprobably not enough for Baylor against Ark.
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by Prashanth Francis on Dec 4, 2011 4:42 PM CST up reply actions
(id rather see ark v baylor than ark v aTm)
heh
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
How would Ark play A&M?
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by Mark C. Moore on Dec 4, 2011 2:45 PM CST up reply actions
oops, meant OU
my bad!
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
i am effing sick
of tcu being ranked ahead of us… please dont be in top 16 of bcs… please
go mavs, go rangers, go colts, go baylor
RGIII has got Bruce Feldman's vote
I hope he not only wins the trophy, but wins it going away.
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by Mark C. Moore on Dec 4, 2011 4:18 PM CST up reply actions
I would take a win
But it still sounds like most of the momentum is behind Luck.
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by Prashanth Francis on Dec 4, 2011 4:43 PM CST up reply actions
I disagree completely.
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by Mark C. Moore on Dec 4, 2011 5:44 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah, bad choice of words.
It sounds like Luck is in lead position and had to be overcome. Saturday onbviously helped…we will see if it will be enough.
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by Prashanth Francis on Dec 4, 2011 10:21 PM CST up reply actions

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