One True Podcast: Baylor/Big 12 football

1. This isn't exactly the rivalry game most were expecting coming into this year, with Baylor (3-7) and TCU (4-6) really not having good years, to put it mildly. Is there really any reason to watch this one at all? 2. We've talked a lot about Baylor's spiraling season, but TCU has had a pretty awful year, too, following up on last year's national title game appearance. What has gone wrong in Fort...

We're joined by Kansas State beat writer Tim Everson of the Manhattan Mercury ( @iamtimeverson ), along with the Trib's Baylor beat writer Zach Smith ( @ByZachSmith ), Trib alum John Werner ( @JohnWernerTrib ) and sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk:  1. This is as big a mismatch as Baylor has had this year: The Kansas State Wildcats are...

We're joined by Houston beat writer Joseph Duarte of the Houston Chronicle ( @Joseph_Duarte ), along with the Trib's Baylor beat writer Zach Smith ( @ByZachSmith ) and sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk:  1. Saturday's game could be called the Disappointment Bowl — which may be the closest either of these teams gets to a bowl this year....

We're joined by Iowa State beat writer Randy Peterson of the Des Moines Register ( @RandyPete ), along with the Trib's Baylor beat writer Zach Smith ( @ByZachSmith ) and sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk: 1. Iowa State's last game was against Cincinnati, too, a 30-10 road win two weeks ago as the Cyclones are coming into Waco this Satur...

We're joined by Cincinnati beat writer Scott Springer of the Enquirer ( @sspringersports ), along with the Trib's Baylor beat writer Zach Smith ( @ByZachSmith ) and sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk: 1. About 15 or 20 years ago, an old ESPN.com feature broke down the "pillow fight of the week." That may not be exactly what's going on th...

We're joined by Trib alumn John Werner ( @JohnWernerTrib ), along with the Trib's Baylor beat writer Zach Smith ( @ByZachSmith ) and sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk:  1. Baylor's weird season took a further downturn in a home loss to the Texas Tech Red Raiders. It's hard to say what was most troubling: the non-existent rushing game, t...

We're joined by Lubbock Avalanche-Journal mainstay Don Williams ( @AJ_DonWilliams ), along with the Trib's Baylor beat writer Zach Smith ( @byzachsmith ) and sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk: 1. This probably isn't where either team expected to be, but Baylor and Texas Tech are both 2-3 (1-1) headed into Saturday's game at McLane Stadi...

We're joined by Orlando Sentinel beat writer Matt Murschel ( @osmattmurschel ), along with the Trib's Baylor beat writer Zach Smith ( @byzachsmith ) and sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk:  1. UCF is hosting Baylor this week — believe it or not, the Bears' first road game of the year. Other than the fact that they're both 0-1 in the Big...

We're joined by Austin American-Statesman royalty Kirk Bohls ( @kbohls ) and Cedric Golden ( @CedGolden ), along with the Trib's Baylor beat writer Zach Smith ( @byzachsmith ) and sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk:  1. It's the 113th meeting between Baylor and Texas on Saturday at McLane Stadium. And while Texas has bred skepticism for...

We're joined by Jerry Hill ( @ViewFromHill ) of the Baylor Bear Insider and a Trib alum, along with the Trib's Baylor beat writer Zach Smith ( @byzachsmith ) and sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk:  1. Baylor clearly made some across-the-board improvements last week; nevertheless, it's another L as the Bears fell 20-13 to No. 12 Utah. Wh...

We're joined by Eric Walden ( @tribjazz ), Utah correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune, along with the Trib's Baylor beat writer Zach Smith ( @byzachsmith ) and sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk: 1. Baylor’s surprising, perhaps inexplicable loss to Texas State in the season opener may take some of the shine off this matchup, but it sti...

Brice Cherry and Zach Smith take a minute to break down what they saw at McLane Stadium on Saturday night.  Read complete game coverage at https://wacotrib.com/sports/college/baylor/ Support the show: https://wacotrib.com/subscribe/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're joined by Texas State correspondent for the  Austin American-Statesman  and Bobcats alum Keff Ciardello ( @Keff_C ) along with Trib sportswriter Zach Smith ( @byzachsmith ) and Trib sports editor Brice Cherry ( @BriceCherry ), ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk: • Guys, at long last, college football is back. Baylor and Texas State will open the 2023 season at 6 p.m. Saturday...

Welcome to new Trib sportswriter Zach Smith ( @byzachsmith ), who will be covering the Baylor football beat going forward after John Werner's retirement. Zach and Trib sports editor Brice Cherry are ready to dig into some BU and Big 12 football talk: • Baylor opened its preseason camp Thursday, which means football season is officially here. What does Dave Aranda’s team need to accomplish the most...

Welcome to special guest  Stephen Simcox (@SimcoxStephen),  an alum of both TCU and ESPN Central Texas who hosts the  Locked On Horned Frogs podcast , available anywhere that you pod  and on YouTube. He's here to talk with Brice Cherry and John Werner about Big 12 football, which only means one thing this week in our bonus episode: • From "One True Champion" to the national championship on One Tru...

We're zooming this week with Kirk Bohls ( @kbohls ) and Cedric Golden ( @CedGolden ) of HookEm.com (aka the Austin American-Statesman) and the  Longhorn Confidential podcast . Brice Cherry and John Werner return to dissect the state of the Big 12 headed into this week's championship game: • Just as everybody expected, it's K-State vs. TCU for the Big 12 title this week. The Frogs back in October s...

• Many of us wrongly thought TCU was going to slip up in Austin last week, but that didn't happen as the Frogs stayed undefeated with a 17-10 win over Texas and clinched a Big 12 title game berth. How do the Frogs just keep doing this week after week? Is the gap between them and the rest of the league just that big? • TCU travels to Waco this week, and all logic says that TCU wins this one: They'r...

• Is anyone in the Big 12 playing any better than the Bears at this particular moment? Baylor got it done on the road for the second straight week, as the Bears traveled to Norman and pulled out a gritty 38-35 win over the Sooners. Outside of TCU – or maybe even including TCU  is anyone in the Big 12 playing any better than the Bears, right now? • Baylor now finds itself in a three-way logjam for...

Special guest Jenni Carlson ( @JenniCarlson_OK ) of The Oklahoman, now in her 24th year covering Sooner state football and other cool stuff like the NBA, joins Trib sports guys John Werner and Brice Cherry for some college football talk:  • Last week was kind of a surprise for BU, with Baylor winning impressively in Lubbock over Texas Tech, and now they're on the road for a second straight week to...

Special guest Don Williams ( @AJ_DonWilliams ) of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, who's been on the Texas Tech beat since 1986, joins Trib sports guys John Werner and Brice Cherry for some college football talk: • There are many intriguing subplots to Baylor-Texas Tech this week: An ultra-competitive series — a three-point game last year, a one-point game in 2020,  double-overtime in 2019, etc. — p...

Special guest Blair Kerkhoff ( @BlairKerkhoff ) of the Kansas City Star, in the sportswriting biz for 41 years, joins Trib sports guys John Werner and Brice Cherry for some Big 12 football talk: • Going into this season, Baylor probably wasn't looking at the Oct. 22 matchup with Kansas too closely. Now it's suddenly a big deal. At 5-2, the formerly nationally ranked Kansas Jayhawks are coming to t...

Special guest Chris Williams (@CWillTV) of KWTX-TV, Channel 10, joins Trib sports guys John Werner and Brice Cherry for some college football talk: • Coming off an open week and a loss to Oklahoma State, Baylor heads into an unforgiving climate: The Bears play their annual Thursday night game at West Virginia, quite the doomsday scenario for BU, as they've never won in Morgantown. Is this the year...

Special guest Kurtis Quillin (@KurtisQuillin) of KCEN-TV, Channel 6, joins Trib sports guys John Werner and Brice Cherry for some college football talk: • Oklahoma State got a little payback on Baylor — and while they're still good and it's only one loss, unless something changes, it seems like the Bears are not destined for a return to Jerryworld for the Big 12 championship game. Agree or disagre...

Special guests Kelly Hines (@KellyHinesTW) and Guerin Emig (@GuerinEmig), both mainstays of the venerable Tulsa World, join Trib sports guys John Werner and Brice Cherry for some college football talk: • Obviously this is an intriguing matchup Saturday in Waco, a rematch of last year's Big 12 championship game at AT&T Stadium, which came right down to the McWire in a thrilling finish for the B...

• This sets up as a pretty interesting Big 12 opener for both Iowa State and Baylor, which is traveling to Ames this week. It was also intriguing as last year's opener, as the Bears were unranked and unproven before their 31-29 win over the No. 14-ranked Cyclones. Do you see Iowa State flipping the script this year? • The Cyclones haven't given up more than 10 points so far this year. How does thi...