Baylor Football: Bears spoil Jayhawks’ hot start

Baylor football took down the red-hot Kansas Jayhawks with relative ease as the Bears started off Big 12 play undefeated.

The Kansas Jayhawks arrived at McLane Stadium in Waco, TX winners of two-straight. After snapping an unbelievably long road losing streak with a win over Central Michigan in Week 2, the Jayhawks massacred Rutgers at home to improve to 2-1.

The oddsmakers were wary of the Jayhawks. Baylor entered the game as a 7.5-point favorite, not that large of a margin considering Baylor beat Kansas 38-9 in Lawrence, KS last year.

Any hopes that Kansas had of ending Baylor’s eight-game winning streak were all-but dead in the water at halftime. Baylor took a 23-0 lead into the break after three Charlie Brewer touchdown passes.

Kyler Murray and Will Grier have dominated the headlines, but Brewer could quietly force his way into the conversation if he has another game like this. Brewer has only thrown one interception on the year and has calmly led the Baylor offense which entered the weekend No. 26 in the nation, averaging 500 yards per game. Against Kansas, Brewer threw for 221 yards with those three touchdown passes.

The Baylor defense came to play, too. After posting back-to-back 100-yard rushing performances, Kansas’ lead back Pooka Williams Jr. was completely shut down. The Jayhawks entered halftime with zero yards rushing on 13 carries and ended the game with 122 rushing yards on 28 attempts.

With the ground attack gone, the Kansas passing offense withered. Quarterbacks Peyton Bender and Miles Kendrick were completely ineffective, making any hopes of a comeback unrealistic. It was a good run for the Jayhawks’, but they have much more work to do before they’re truly ready to contend in the Big 12.

The road gets tougher for Baylor next weekend when they travel to Norman, OK to take on the No. 5 Oklahoma Sooners. Kansas returns home to take on the No. 15 Oklahoma State Cowboys.