HA! You fools, picking the under in Baylor vs. West Virginia. Vegas guessed these two teams would combine for 75.5 points. They hit 100, with No. 2 Baylor pulling away for a 62-38 win.
Baylor blows past West Virginia in college football’s newest, POINTS-iest rivalry.
Baylor and West Virginia combined for 100 points Saturday for the third time in four tries. Each team has won twice. This should be a RIVALRY.
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West Virginia had pretty touchdowns:
Baylor had more touchdowns, and prettier touchdowns:
Seth Russell had 380 yards passing and five touchdowns, and another 160 yards and a touchdown running. Three of those TD’s were to Corey Coleman, who has already set the Baylor record for touchdown catches about halfway through the season. Baylor had 693 yards total offense, their sixth straight game with 600 yards of offense. According to ESPN, no team has done that in 20 years.
The game ended up being kinda uncompetitive. West Virginia got as close as 24-17, but Baylor scored three touchdowns in the third quarter to put the game out of reach. They even covered the 21.5-point spread.
But one thing is clear. If you like POINTS, you need to watch West Virginia vs. Baylor, regardless of the year.
West Virginia vs. Baylor is an odd matchup for a rivalry. The schools are 1,300 miles apart. West Virginia still seems like an outlier in a conference where everybody else is in the Plains or Texas. Baylor has rarely been the class of college football. But in four years, these teams have played split four offensive shootouts, combining for 416 points along the way.
2012
No. 9 West Virginia beats No. 25 Baylor 70-63, the highest-scoring game in Big 12 history. Geno Smith goes 45-for-51 (what) with 656 yards passing (WHAT) and eight touchdowns (WHAAAAAT). This is the game that got Nick Saban to ask "is this what we want football to be?"
2013
Baylor hangs 70 of its own, dropping the Mountaineers 73-42. It wasn’t even that close. Baylor scored 35 unanswered points in the second and third quarters.
2014
West Virginia hands No. 4 Baylor their only regular season loss, 41-27. The teams were tied 27-all at the end of the third quarter, but Clint Trickett threw two touchdowns in the fourth to get the Mountaineers an upset win at home. It’s the loss that eventually keeps Baylor out of the first College Football Playoff.
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There’s no good reason for these teams to hate each other -- besides the occasionally incredibly meaningful results between them -- but we really hope they start. Because as long as Art Briles is in Waco and Dana Holgorsen is in Morgantown, the games between these two are gonna be fun.
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