Baylor Football: Will the Bears avoid going 0-12?

Call it a coin flip

at Kansas – Nov. 4

That’s sad. It’s sad that the Bears’ only real chance of winning is a road game in Lawrence, and even that isn’t a gimme. The Jayhawks pushed Charlie Strong out of a job with a shocking upset of the Longhorns last season. David Beaty’s team is dangerous, but they also lack any semblance of an offensive identity.

Kansas is averaging 26.5 points per game in conference play, both home losses. West Virginia defeated the Jayhawks 56-34 and Texas Tech beat them 65-19. Baylor might not have figured it all out on offense yet, but Zach Smith has proven he can sling it with the best of them. The Kansas secondary is not as strong as their defensive line, so if they can get to the quarterback their will be receivers open down the fied.

According to ESPN FPI, this is the only remaining game that Baylor is projected to win. They place the odds of Baylor picking up a win in Lawrence at 81.6. That seems pretty rich for a team with losses to Liberty and UTSA on the books, but even those teams would have probably forced at least a competitive game with Kansas.

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Baylor is bad. The off-field issues that rocked the program are having implications with the team in the locker room. It’s hard to imagine that they won’t be good enough to at least find one win and prevent their first win-less season since 1969. If it’s not over Kansas, Baylor might not scratch across a win at all in 2017.