Analysis of the heavy home defeat against Baylor

Josh Cameron caught three touchdown passes and set up another touchdown with a long punt return, and Baylor defeated the Texas Tech football team 59-35 on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium, costing the Red Raiders a share of the Big 12 lead .

Bryson Washington rushed for 116 yards and two touchdowns for Baylor (3-4, 1-3), which had lost 17 of its last 22 games.

Caleb Douglas caught three touchdown passes for Tech (5-2, 3-1) and Tahj Brooks had his 18th career 100-yard game with 125 on 25 carries. Douglas (99 yards) and Josh Kelly (76 yards) each caught nine passes. Behren Morton had 286 passing yards and his first interception in five games.

Former Coronado quarterback Sawyer Robertson, playing for Baylor against his hometown team, threw for 274 yards and five touchdowns, a career-best. The final four tied the game open after Brooks scored a 31-yard touchdown on fourth-and-1 that cut the deficit to 24-21 early in the third quarter.

On Baylor's next four series, Robertson connected with Cameron from 11 yards, Hal Presley from 35 yards, Monaray Baldwin from 24 yards and Cameron again from 12 yards, making the score 52-21.

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Washington scored twice on 1-yard runs, the first on its own 44-yard burst and the second on Cameron's 73-yard punt return.

Rara Dilworth recovered a missed kickoff from Drae McCray and put the Bears in position to score a field goal that secured the lead 17-7. Tech cut the deficit to 17-14 with 1:54 left before halftime on a 20-yard trick-play touchdown pass from tight end Jalin Conyers to Douglas.

Armed with three timeouts, Baylor gained 75 yards and Cameron had a chance for a 6-yard TD catch with 4 seconds before halftime.

Here is the Red Raiders report card.

Offense: F

Brooks and Douglas were bright spots in an otherwise dull performance. Too many unproductive routes.

Defense: F

An effective Baylor running game set the tone. Then Robertson barely came under pressure and cut open the pass defense.

Special teams: F

A plethora of gaffes included a fair catch interference, a shanked punt, a line drive punt that yielded a big return, a muffed kickoff and a kickoff out of bounds. Untypical for units that were a strength.

Coach: F

Joey McGuire has a Dave Aranda problem. Baylor's embattled coach has trounced Tech on two straight trips to Lubbock.

Overall: F

Home games against second division teams are the ones Tech needs to take advantage of. This was supposedly the easiest game of the last six.

Analysis of the heavy home defeat against Baylor

ByVanessa

Offense: F

Defense: F

Special teams: F

Coach: F

Overall: F

By Vanessa

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