Baylor Scores the Last Ten and Beats Colorado 23-13
Colorado tied this one at 13-13 with 11:04 left in the fourth quarter. Baylor then scored the next ten points and went home with a 23-13 win, which is how a game that was mostly a field-goal contest for three quarters ends up with a final that looks cleaner than it felt.
The early going was mostly kickers. Elliott Arnold hit a 24-yarder for Colorado at 3:22 of the first, and Rhett Armstrong tied it with a 37-yarder at 13:28 of the second. DJ Lagway then threw a three-yard touchdown to Gavin Freeman with 7:04 left in the half, and Baylor led 10-3 at the break. Armstrong added a 27-yarder in the third, Arnold answered with a 46-yarder, and it was 13-6 entering the fourth.
Then Isaac Wilson found Joseph Williams from 17 yards to tie it, and Baylor answered the way good teams do. Lagway hit Jadon Porter on a 33-yard touchdown at 9:02, and Armstrong closed it with a 54-yard field goal at 4:28. Colorado never got another score.
Colorado actually out-gained the Bears 363 yards to 338, with 280 of them through the air, but it ran 39 times for just 83 yards (2.1 a carry) and lost a fumble. Baylor's defense sacked Colorado five times and forced that one fumble without getting an interception, while its own offense threw one pick and lost nothing on the ground.
Baylor moves to 3-1. Colorado falls to 2-2. For fantasy, Williams was the best scorer on the field with 31.7 points, and he did it with 11 catches and a completed pass. Wide receivers do not usually throw for 49 yards and still lead the box score.