Baylor·Big 12

2015 — The Ten-Win Year

Baylor's 2015 season (10-3) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 10-3
Final result 10-win season Won the Russell Athletic Bowl
AP final #18 post-bowls
SP+ +10.1 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W @ SMU 56-21 W vs Lamar 66-31 W vs Rice 70-17 W vs Texa Tec 63-35 W @ Kansas 66-7 W vs West Vir 62-38 W vs Iowa St 45-27 W @ Kans Sta 31-24 L vs Okla 34-44 W @ Okla St 45-35 L @ TCU 21-28 L vs Texas 17-23 W vs UNC 49-38 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2015.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2015 season's largest margin: Baylor 66, Kansas 7. A 59-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Baylor 34, Oklahoma 44. A 10-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Baylor beat North Carolina 49-38 in the postseason.

"Sic 'em"
— Baylor fanbase voice · 2015· synthesized
What it meant

2015 is a middle chapter for Baylor — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.