Coach: Guy Morris (15-31) Fifth Year
Last Year: 4-8, 3-5 Big 12, Sixth in the South 
Returning Starters : Offense 4, Line 3 | Defense 7, Line 3

Three Things You Should Know
1) Sophomore linebacker Joe Pawelek (6-2, 231 #41) leads a Baylor defense that returns seven starters. Last year Pawelek finished among the top 10 tacklers in the Big 12 with 86 total tackles.
2) The Bears swept the north last year by pulling off a rare Big 12 road win at Boulder paired with a couple of home wins against the Hawks and Wildcats (nice work by the Sunflower tandem). It could go the opposite this year. KU and K-State certainly will want to erase the memory of last year and things will be a little different in Kansas. Colorado will want to avoid back-to-back losses to the Bears, but the Buffs do tangle with Oklahoma the week before travelling to Waco.
3) Baylor had two transfers come in to take over the quarterback position in the offseason, but both have fallen at least to third string. The battle appears to be between sophomore Blake Szymanski (6-4, 209, #6) and reshirt freshman Tyler Beatty (6-3, 202, #12). Beatty was fifth on the depth chart last spring. Szymanski has game experience after taking over for injured Shawn Bell toward the end of last season. He completed 52.9% of his passes and threw four TDs against seven touchdowns. He was also sacked 13 times in the final three games. It also appears that he is currently battling an ankle injury.

Trends
Baylor's last bowl game was the 1994 Alamo Bowl ... a 10-3 loss to Washington St.

How KU Wins
For starters, KU has not lost to Baylor in Lawrence since the inception of the Big 12. KU's defense will be better. Baylor's offense is suspect with the loss of QB Shawn Bell and six other starters. Plus, if KU finds a way to beat K-State in Manhattan, the stadium will be packed. Speaking of which, that is the best thing going for the Bears. The 'Hawks will put everything they have into the KSU game the week before ... a Wildcat hangover is an advantage for the Bears. Still, no matter how you slice it, Kansas plays tough at home, so this will be an uphill battle for the Bears.

2007 Baylor Schedule
Sat, Sep 1 at (22) TCU
Sat, Sep 8 Rice
Sat, Sep 15 Texas State
Sat, Sep 22 at Buffalo
Sat, Sep 29 at (25) Texas A&M
Sat, Oct 6 Colorado
Sat, Oct 13 at Kansas
Sat, Oct 20 (4) Texas
Sat, Oct 27 at Kansas State
Sat, Nov 3 Texas Tech
Sat, Nov 10 at (8) Oklahoma
Sat, Nov 17 Oklahoma State