EDITORIAL: Stakes are high at Baylor's Big 12 game this weekend
Speaking of calling out to the campus faithful, Baylor is looking forward to another large crowd at Floyd Casey Stadium this weekend — and the summons focuses not just on faculty, students, staff and alumni but all the rest of us in Central Texas.
Considering that Baylor has won three of its four matchups this season, this Saturday’s game offers something exceptional, complete with consequences: After two weeks focused on friendly rivals from the old Southwest Conference, this is the first game in which Baylor is pitted against one of its Big 12 stablemates, in this case the Kansas Jayhawks.
The Jayhawks are under a new coach, and while their season has been uneven thus far, it includes a surprising 28-25 upset over then-No. 15 Georgia Tech and a 42-16 pummeling of New Mexico State.
Which means the Bears will need to be in superior form, possibly better than ever this season.
Our part: Showing up at the first Big 12 game of the season and lending support in the way only fans can. Pardon us if we revel in Coach Art Briles’ homespun play on words about the game: “If you’re going to get home cooking, there’s only one place to get it, and that’s home.”
We saw more than 40,000 fans show up for Baylor’s winning home games over Sam Houston State and Buffalo; according to Baylor officials, the combined 83,674 fans at those first two home games mark the best total since 1975.
Conclusion: We expect to see our friends, neighbors and fellow readers at this Saturday’s game, a joyous reaffirmation of the Big 12 Conference and our role in it, win or lose. And we need to make an especially strong showing this weekend as the game is being televised nationally.
We’ll be in the stands well before 11 a.m. kickoff. See you there.
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