Baylor·Big 12

2019 — The Top-10 Year

Baylor finished 2019 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.

Record 11-3
Final result 11-win season Lost the Sugar Bowl
AP final #8 post-bowls
SP+ +6.6 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Step Aus 56-17 W vs UTSA 63-14 W @ Rice 21-13 W vs Iowa St 23-21 W @ Kans Sta 31-12 W vs Texa Tec 33-30 W @ Okla St 45-27 W vs West Vir 17-14 W @ TCU 29-23 L vs Okla 31-34 W vs Texas 24-10 W @ Kansas 61-6 L @ Okla 23-30 L vs Georgia 14-26 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2019.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2019 season's largest margin: Baylor 61, Kansas 6. A 55-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Baylor 14, Georgia 26. A 12-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Baylor fell to Georgia 14-26 in the postseason.

"Sic 'em"
— Baylor fanbase voice · 2019· synthesized
What it meant

2019 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.