One True Podcast: Baylor/Big 12 football

• Baylor went to Provo and fell in double-OT in the Big 12 After Dark game, and the crowd stormed the field after the game (even though they were favored, but whatever). In a game that featured 14 Baylor penalties, four sacks and just 137 passing yards for the Bears, they were still right there until the last moment. Is that a positive or a negative for Dave Aranda's squad? • Werner-Orts Universit...

Kevin Reynolds of the Salt Lake Tribune, on Twitter @KevinReynolds30, joins Trib sports guys John Werner and Brice Cherry as the Bears head to Provo:  • It's a big-time Big 12 matchup this week as the No. 9 Baylor Bears head to Provo to play the No. 21 BYU Cougars. On paper, this sets up as an enticing battle with near-even odds, according to the bookies. We ask our dueling beat writers: BYU/Baylo...

Jerry Hill joins the Trib guys as college football kicks off for 2022: • At long last, the season openers are here. Baylor will open up at home against the University of Albany on Saturday. The Bears, of course, are the Big 12 preseason favorites for the first time in program history. What will need to happen for Baylor to actually live up to that prediction this season? • Dave Aranda said this we...

Welcome to special guest Stephen Simcox, an alum of both TCU and ESPN Central Texas who hosts the Locked On Horned Frogs podcast , available anywhere that you pod. He's here to talk with Brice Cherry and John Werner about Big 12 football: The big news of the week is that Gary Patterson won't be on the sideline for the first time in 20 years when TCU face Baylor. Even though the Frogs have been tre...

We're glad to welcome Kirk Bohls ( @kbohls ) and Cedric Golden ( @CedGolden ) of HookEm.com (aka the Austin American-Statesman), here to talk about Baylor-Texas week with Trib sportswriters Brice Cherry and John Werner: Baylor hosts Texas on Saturday at McLane Stadium, and it's a tale of two teams going in very different directions. The Bears are coming off back-to-back wins over West Virginia and...

We're glad to welcome Jason Beede of the Orlando Sentinel, who's @therealBeede on Twitter, and welcome back Joseph Duarte of the Houston Chronicle who's @Joseph_Duarte on Twitter. They're here for a special Big 12 expansion edition with Trib sportswriters Brice Cherry and John Werner: So, the word is that UCF, Houston and Cincinnati are slated to join the league “no later than 2024-25.&rdquo...

We didn't have to go far to find special guest Chris Williams , who's @CWillTV on Twitter: He's been a sports reporter for KWTX-TV News 10 for about a year, and he joins Brice Cherry and John Werner to talk college football: Well, the Bears got back on track with a convincing 45-20 win over West Virginia last wee. What impressed you the most about Baylor's performance? Where was the biggest improv...

As the Bears regroup from their first loss, Brice Cherry and John Werner are ready to talk some college football: • The Baylor Bears will not go undefeated as the dream fizzled in Stillwater. Let's glance into John Werner's Dave Campbell-esque crystal ball — will the Bears be ranked in the Top 25 at the end of the season? • Offensively, Baylor has regressed in its last two games ag...

We're glad to welcome Jenni Carlson, who's @JenniCarlson_OK on Twitter: She's been writing for The Oklahoman since 1999 and joins Brice Cherry and John Werner to talk college football:  • Pretty good game this week in Stillwater: Are the undefeated Bears or the  undefeated Cowboys more surprising to you so far this season, and who do you like in this matchup? OSU has an good resume...

We're glad to welcome Randy Peterson , who's @RandyPete on Twitter: He's been writing for the Des Moines Register since the 1970s and he joins Brice Cherry and John Werner to talk college football: Following three straight afterthought opponents, Baylor takes a dramatic upward step in its schedule this week when 14th-ranked Iowa State comes to Waco. Both teams are coming off extremely impressive w...

• After a 2-0 start against a couple of in-state schools, Baylor opens up Big 12 play this week at Kansas. The Jayhawks are hitting the reset button again — what's the matter with Kansas? New head coach Lance Leipold, formerly of Buffalo, takes over a program that has been in a perpetual rebuilding cycle over the past 10-plus years. Is there any reason to believe that Leipold can succee...

We're glad to welcome back Joseph Duarte , who's @Joseph_Duarte on Twitter: He's spent 25 years on several sports beats at the Houston Chronicle and he joins Brice Cherry and John Werner to talk college football: Baylor opened the year with a fairly pedestrian 29-20 win over Texas State on Saturday. What did we see that was encouraging for the 2021 Bears, and what areas of concern jumped out? Inst...

• Baylor opens its season with its first-ever game in San Marcos — luckily, we have two Texas State alums, former Tribber Jason Orts and longtime Baylor beat writer John Werner, to reflect on the rise of the program from the NAIA ranks to the FBS: What's the gameday atmosphere like at Bobcat Stadium, and how does it compare to those halcyon student days?  • Both the Bears and...

For the first time since 2008, Baylor will travel to Lubbock this week — that was Art Briles' first year, so it's been awhile. Two not-so-great teams will meet there, with the 1-4 Bears seeing injuries start to mount while the Red Raiders are just 2-5. Who do you think needs a win more, Tech or Baylor? It's Matt Wells' second year now at Tech, and while he didn't exactly inherit a juggernaut...

Hello to our old friend Jerry Hill, who's  @ViewFromHill on Twitter: He's been covering sports in Waco since he started at the Tribune-Herald 1983 and he's been on the Baylor football beat since 1987, before moving over to edit the Baylor Bear Insider in 2008. He joins Brice Cherry and John Werner for a Trib reunion to figure out what's going on with this year's crop of Bears: • It was a...

We're joined by Drew Davison , who's  @drewdavison  on Twitter: He's spent 13 years at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the last three on the Horned Frogs beat, and he joins Brice Cherry and John Werner return to dissect this week's head-scratcher at Amon Carter Stadium: • This week it's a renewal of the old TCU-Baylor rivalry, and it feels like the Frogs and Bears are floating do...

Zooming with Kirk Bohls ( @kbohls ) and Cedric Golden ( @CedGolden ) of HookEm.com (aka the Austin American-Statesman), Brice Cherry and John Werner return to dissect this week's showdown in Austin with the Longhorns: • As of right now, the Baylor-Texas game is still a go for Saturday as the Bears are 2-3 this year —  2 games played, 3 canceled. Has this tumultuous season going lik...

Chad Conine drops by to talk Big 12 football with Brice Cherry and John Werner as the Bears take another unexpected siesta this week: • This one wasn't a scheduled bye week: The Bears are dealing with an outbreak of COVID-19 cases that led to the postponement of the homecoming game with Oklahoma State, and as we sit here today, it feels like even next week's game at Texas is in question. Has...

Chad Conine drops by to talk Big 12 football with Brice Cherry and John Werner as the Bears take a breather this before homecoming Oct. 17: • So, the cliché tells us that the biggest improvement in a team comes from Week 1 to Week 2, and Baylor's Dave Aranda even agreed with that sentiment last week. So, what exactly happened to the Bears in Morgantown? And what was the most disappoint...

We welcome a very special guest in Trib sports writer Chad Conine this week. Baylor finally got a game in, trouncing Kansas handily with a 47-14 win . But on a scale from “it's just Kansas” to “that was a thoroughly impressive performance,” where does this one rank? It's yet unknown whether WVU fans will burn couches after watching the Mountaineers from home as the Bears go...

Hello to  Benton Smith , who's  @BentonASmith  on Twitter: He's spent 9 years at the Lawrence Journal-World in Jayhawks county and he joins Brice Cherry and John Werner to talk about (hopefully) a football game being played in Waco this week: • Baylor had the first Power 5 game in the country  canceled on a Friday  this year, and given everything going on, what's...

We're glad to reconnect with Joseph Duarte , who's @Joseph_Duarte on Twitter: He's spent 25 years on several sports beats at the Houston Chronicle and he joins Brice Cherry and John Werner to talk Baylor-Houston, the Big 12's disaster week and more: • It's remarkable how this game came together so quickly, especially in the age of college football schedules being set up eight to 10 years in a...

Welcome to special guest Max Olson, @max_olson on Twitter, who has covered national college football for The Athletic since 2017. Prior to that, he spent six years covering Big 12 football and recruiting for ESPN.com. After the weirdest offseason in memory, Here's what Brice Cherry, John Werner and Max have on their minds this week: • We will have a college football season — kind of. Af...