Oct 11, 2003
Final Stats
By MICHAEL A. LUTZ
AP Sports Writer
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Reggie McNeal threw three touchdown passes, including a 91-yarder to Jamaar Taylor, and ran for two more scores as Texas A&M snapped a three-game losing streak with a 73-10 victory over Baylor on Saturday.
The Aggies (3-3, 1-1 in Big 12) quickly brought Baylor (3-3, 1-1) back down from the Bears' 42-30 upset of Colorado last week with a 28-point second quarter for a 38-10 halftime lead.
A&M kept rolling with a big-play third quarter that included a 1-yard TD run by McNeal, the 91-yard pass from McNeal to Taylor, and Courtney Lewis' 86-yard run for his second TD of the day.
The Aggies scored their most points since beating Texas Christian 74-10 in 1986 and the Bears lost their 30th straight conference road game. Baylor's last league victory was in 1995 against Southwest Conference foe SMU.
McNeal was 9-of-14 for 199 yards with no interceptions, and ran eight times for 61 yards. The Aggies had double 100-yard rushers for the first time since JaMar Toombs and Dante Hall in 1997. Lewis ran for 158 yards on 12 carries and Derek Farmer had 117 yards on 11 carries.
Baylor's Rashad Armstrong, the Big 12's leading rusher, gained 22 yards on 18 carries.
The Aggies get warmed up until they got 28 points on Jaxson Appel's 64-yard interception return for a score, McNeal's 2-yard TD run, a 1-yard touchdown dive by Lewis and McNeal's 8-yard touchdown pass to Taylor.
Taylor's TD catch came with 20 seconds left in the half and quickly answered Baylor's only touchdown of the game, a 37-yard pass from Aaron Karas to Marques Roberts moments earlier.
McNeal hit tight end Andy Matakis with a 6-yard touchdown pass and Todd Pegram kicked a 22-yard field goal in the first quarter and the Bears got a 46-yard field goal from Kenny Webb.
The Bears had sustained a long drive until they reached A&M's 35 as the second quarter started.
On the second play of the quarter, Baylor's Aaron Karas threw a pass intended for Jonathan Evans but it went right to Appel, who ran untouched for his first career interception TD return.
