Air Force 30, Baylor 15 Armed Forces Bowl What Happened, What It All Means

Air Force 30, Baylor 15: Armed Forces Bowl what happened, player of the game, and what it all means

Air Force beat Baylor to win the Armed Forces Bowl. What happened, who was the player of the game, and what does it all mean?


Air Force 30, Baylor 15 Armed Forces Bowl What Happened, Player of the Game, What It All Means

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Armed Forces Bowl What Happened

Air Force was able to march down relatively short fields to get up 9-0 – closing off the first drive with a short touchdown run from Brad Roberts. Baylor fought back late in the first half to get an eight-yard touchdown catch from Hal Presley, and that was about it for the fun. Air Force scores 21 straight points in the second half to put it away.

– Brad Roberts hammered home his second short touchdown run of the game to make it 30-7, and QB Haaziq Daniels ran for a score and connected with Caleb Rillos for a 15-yard touchdown in the third quarter.

Baylor couldn’t do anything to control the clock or knock Air Force off its game. It kept fighting and scores in the final few minutes on Blake Shapen’s second touchdown pass of the game – and a two-point conversion from Shapen – but Air Force recovered the onside kick and that was it.

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Armed Forces Bowl Player of the Game

Brad Roberts, FB Air Force 
He set the tone for the entire game with his hard running inside, carrying the ball 37 times for 116 yards and two scores.

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Armed Forces Bowl Fun Stats

– Air Force QB Haaziq Daniels completed four of his seven passes for 103 yards with a score, and ran 15 times for 81 yards and a touchdown.

– Third Down Conversions: Air Force 8-of-16 – Baylor 0-of-11

– Time of Possession: Air Force 40:03 – Baylor 19:57

Armed Forces Bowl What It All Means

It’s a third double-digit win season for Air Force in the last four years, it’s the third bowl win in those four seasons, and overall it’s the fourth straight bowl victory under Troy Calhoun and fifth win in six tries since 2014.

Air Force has its style, it keeps doing it at a high level, and it dares everyone to try to stop it. There might be a ceiling on what it can do, but 10-3 with a bowl win is a strong year no matter what.

It wasn’t exactly the follow-up season Baylor was looking for after winning the Big 12 title and Sugar Bowl. The team had plenty of solid moments, but considering it was ranked in the top ten going into the year, closing with a rough loss like this after dropping three in a row for a losing campaign wasn’t how it was supposed to go.

Head coach Dave Aranda knows how to tweak. He did it from 2020 to 2021, and it’s not like the program needs a rebuild.

 

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2022-2023 Bowl Schedule, Predictions

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Bowl games to attend in the state of Texas

There are bowl games all over the state of Texas.

If you’re looking for a bowl game to watch in Texas, you’ll have plenty from which to choose. The Lone Star State will play host to multiple teams over bowl season.

The No. 20 Texas Longhorns and No. 12 Washington Huskies will play in San Antonio in the Alamo Bowl. The Alamo Dome has become a second home for Texas in recent seasons. The 2022 game will mark the third time the team has played a postseason game there in four seasons.

The feature in-state game takes place in Arlington for the Cotton Bowl. No. 10 USC Trojans will battle the No. 16 Tulane Green Wave. Tulane defeated the Big 12 champion Kansas State Wildcats earlier this season and has history facing a Riley coached team.

Riley faced Tulane at Oklahoma last season in a performance he would probably rather forget. His team will need to guard against a letdown against a rapidly improving Tulane program.

Here are a handful of bowl games to watch in the state of Texas.

College Football: Where Texas teams are playing this bowl season

These teams won’t be watching bowl season with Texas A&M from home.

We’ve reached the most wonderful time of the year. It’s bowl season.

This year the No. 21 Texas Longhorns (8-4) will participate in the slate of games. Steve Sarkisian’s team will travel the short distance to San Antonio to face the No. 12 Washington Huskies (10-2) in the Valero Alamo Bowl.

The Longhorns previous two bowl nominations were to the Alamo Bowl. Texas dismantled the highly regarded Utah Utes 38-10 before defeating the Colorado Buffaloes 55-23 the following year.

This year’s game reunites Pete Kwiatkowski with his former team. His defenses at Washington were so potent they earned the nickname, “Death Row.”

Steve Sarkisian is also reunited with a former team. Sarkisian revitalized Washington going from 0-12 the year before he took over to three bowl games in four years.

Here’s a look at where Texas teams will play during bowl season.

Utah Wins Pac-12 Championship Over USC: What This Means For College Football Playoff

5 things Utah’s win over USC in the Pac-12 Championship means for the College Football Playoff

Utah rocked USC 47-24 to win the Pac-12 Championship. What does this all mean for the College Football Playoff?


Utah 47, USC 24: What This Means For The College Football Playoff

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5. USC is out of the College Football Playoff

There’s a chance the College Football Playoff committee really did do its homework on USC. Maybe it decides it’s not fair to punish a team for playing a conference championship, while some other team that finished its season getting rocked by its rival got to spend its Saturday holiday shopping.

The committee can’t complain about the USC defense. It gave up 562 yards to Utah in the first meeting – a 43-42 Ute win – and gave up 400 yards or more six times in the final seven games. The bad D cake was baked when USC was ranked fourth in the penultimate rankings.

Maybe the committee figures that out, and maybe it goes a step further and projects that USC really is one of the four best teams in college football once Caleb Williams’ leg heals a month from now.

Nah. Going off of past CFP ranking precedent, USC will likely drop below Utah, who could rise up as high as 6 but will probably settle in at 7.

4. Utah is going to the Rose Bowl

That’s two years in a row for Utah going to the Rose Bowl as the Pac-12 Champion. Don’t discount what a massive deal that is for a program that’s still the new guy on the block after moving over from the Mountain West in 2011.

That sets off a chain of major bowl things.

The win almost certainly puts Ohio State in the College Football Playoff. It also pushed out Washington, who likely would’ve gone to Pasadena with a USC Pac-12 Championship win. That means Penn State will almost certainly slide on into the open spot as the best available Big Ten team.

That all means USC will probably go to the Cotton to face the Tulane/UCF winner.

All of that means Ohio State won’t go to the Orange Bowl, which means Tennessee – or possibly Alabama – will end up playing the ACC champion. With an SEC team in and a Big Ten team out, that pushes down Notre Dame in the bowl chain thanks to a slew of procedural things.

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3. TCU is almost certainly locked into the College Football Playoff no matter what

This could all change if Kansas State beats TCU 55-3 – or just dominates in the win – but according to College Football Playoff tradition and precedent, it’s going to be hard to kick out a 12-1 team for a two-loss team that didn’t win its conference championship – like Alabama or USC.

Utah would be more in the discussion if it lost twice, but it’s not getting in with three losses. Clemson might have a shot of getting a whole lot closer than you think in the final rankings – like 5 – with an ACC Championship win over North Carolina, but the two losses are too much to overcome.

Had USC won, it would’ve been in no matter what as a 12-1 Power Five conference champion. If TCU loses and gets destroyed, then the debate would’ve been with Ohio State for that fourth spot. With USC losing, that solves the problem.

Could two-loss Alabama get in over as 12-1 TCU that loses the Big 12 Championship? Nah, because …

2. Remember, no two-loss team has ever made the College Football Playoff

2017 Auburn would’ve had the best shot of breaking through this ceiling.

It lost two games, but it beat Alabama. Had it beaten Georgia for the SEC Championship, it would’ve been a tough theoretical lift to put in the Dawgs and Tide over the Tigers – Georgia was 3, Alabama 4 in the final rankings after Auburn lost the SEC Championship.

That year Ohio State had a beef, too. It was 11-2 with a Big Ten championship, closing out with a win over a previously unbeaten Wisconsin. However, an 11-1 Alabama team that didn’t win its own division got in.

In 2016, Penn State beat Ohio State 24-21, but it lost two games earlier in the season. It went on to win the Big Ten Championship to finish 11-2 with a Power Five championship. 11-1 Ohio State not only got in instead, it was the 3 seed.

Eight years, 32 College Football Playoff spots. Not one team has ever been in with more than one loss.

This year? No matter what, there will be four teams with no more than one loss. That means …

1. Ohio State, your table is ready

Everyone will be dogging the idea of Ohio State getting in without playing that one tough extra game that USC did – and everyone might be right.

However, Ohio State is still the only team in college football to start 11-0 winning every game by double-digits.

It beat Notre Dame. It hung 77 on a Toledo team playing in the MAC Championship. It put up 54 on Iowa, 44 on Penn State, and ended up scoring 43 points against nine of those first 11 games except for the 21-10 win over the Irish and a 21-7 win over Northwestern in crazy weather conditions.

It’s one sin was a 45-23 pasting at home by Michigan.

If Michigan had been 9-3 – like Utah was going into the Pac-12 Championship – that might be a deathblow.

If Clemson hadn’t blown it against South Carolina and could pull off an ACC Championship at 12-1, it would’ve been in instead.

Had Tennessee not gacked in a blowout over South Carolina and finished 11-1, it would’ve had a better resumé than Ohio State.

If Michigan really is the No. 2 team in the country – or maybe No. 1 with a Big Ten Championship win and a Georgia loss – then theoretically, Ohio State might be No. 3.

No matter how it happened, it’s one of the four remaining teams without at least two losses. Thanks to Utah, Ohio State will almost certainly get its shot.

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How to watch, listen and stream No. 23 Texas vs. Baylor on Friday

One last time to see the seniors play at DKR.

No. 23 Texas is hoping to send several key seniors off on a high note with a win over Baylor on Friday. Continue reading “How to watch, listen and stream No. 23 Texas vs. Baylor on Friday”

Where each Big 12 team lands in latest bowl projections

Several intriguing matchups projected, including Spencer Rattler facing off against Oklahoma.

With only one regular season game left on the schedule, we’re starting to see what bowl game each Big 12 program could be a fit for. Continue reading “Where each Big 12 team lands in latest bowl projections”

Black Friday: Five reasons Texas should defeat Baylor

Texas can finish 8-4 and push for a Big 12 title spot.

It’s a tough week to be a Baylor Bear. In recent weeks, the team has seen their conference title hopes disintegrate with consecutive home losses.

The week doesn’t get any easier for Baylor. They will now face a Texas team coming off its best performance of the season.

Texas didn’t get much from the passing game, but it didn’t matter much. The Longhorns ran for 427 yards against Kansas last week, led by Bijan Robinson’s 243-yard game. Jonathon Brooks broke 100 yards as well.

This year’s Baylor team will present new challenges for Texas as Blake Shapen has raised their offensive ceiling. Nevertheless, Steve Sarkisian should have a sizable talent advantage given what the Bears lost to the 2022 NFL Draft.

Here are five reasons Texas should beat Baylor on Friday.

TCU’s ‘hurry-up’ field goal keeps Horned Frogs’ playoff dreams alive with game-winner

TCU kept its College Football Playoff hopes alive with this wild ending.

Jason Benetti was screaming, and so were we, along with anyone who bet on TCU, probably.

Down two points on the road to Baylor with 1:34 to play, the No. 4 Horned Frogs put together a nine-play drive that covered 45 yards, giving kicker Griffin Kell a chance to kick a game-winning field goal.

What created the chaos was that TCU burned all its timeouts. And instead of spiking the ball or running out of bounds to stop the clock on the play before the kick, the Horned Frogs ran the ball up the middle for two yards.

So, the clock just kept ticking away as TCU frantically ran onto the field to set up for a 40-yard game-winning field goal. And this wasn’t just any game-winner; TCU’s playoff hopes were at stake.

But it worked. I present to you, the hurry-up field goal:

TCU fans had a big reason to celebrate after that kick, but bettors who put money on TCU to cover did not.

The Horned Frogs were 2.5-point favorite. So, while they won and kept their playoff chances alive, they didn’t cover and caused bettors a whole lot of heartache.

According to DraftKings, one bettor put $50,000 on TCU to cover.

Bettors were enticed by TCU for several reasons. The Horned Frogs were undefeated, for starters, and were coming off an impressive 17-10 win over Texas. All of TCU’s wins this season were by at least three points or more. Additionally, Baylor was coming off an ugly 31-3 loss to Kansas State.

What put TCU in the position where it had to drive half the length of the field for a game-winning kick was a missed extra point kick in the third quarter, and then a failed two-point conversion on their final touchdown.

Bettors be damned, the hypno-toads are still undefeated and dancing toward the College Football Playoff.

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TCU vs. Baylor, live stream, preview, TV channel, time, how to watch college football

The TCU Horned Frogs will meet the Baylor Bears in Big 12 football action on Saturday afternoon from McLane Stadium.

The TCU Horned Frogs will meet the Baylor Bears in Big 12 football action on Saturday afternoon from McLane Stadium.

TCU is coming off a 17-10 win over Texas to stay undefeated at 10-0 on the season as they look to extend that streak and keep pushing for the CFP. As for Baylor, they will look to bounce back in front of the home crowd on Saturday after dropping to 6-4 after a 34-3 loss to Kansas State.

This will be a great day of college football, here is everything you need to know to watch and stream the action.

#4 TCU vs. Baylor

  • When: Saturday, November 19
  • Time: 12:00 p.m. ET
  • TV Channel: FOX (4K)
  • Live Stream: fuboTV (watch for free)

NCAA Football Odds and Betting Lines

NCAA odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook. Odds were updated at 10:00 a.m. ET on Saturday.

TCU (-2) vs. Baylor 

O/U: 57

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