Sept 13, 2003
Final Stats
By STEPHEN HAWKINS
AP Sports Writer
WACO, Texas (AP) - Rashad Armstrong's 4-yard touchdown run on Baylor's first second-half drive gave the Bears the winning margin as they beat SMU 10-7 Saturday night for their first win under coach Guy Morriss.
The Bears (1-2) had just 182 total yards, their second-lowest in a win since 1956. But after a last-minute loss in their opener and a turnover-filled debacle last week, they will take any win any way.
Keylon Kincade ran for 113 yards on 30 carries for SMU (0-2), which outgained Baylor with 204 total yards.
Baylor has won eight straight games against the Mustangs, though the old Southwest Conference rivals were playing for the first time since 1995, that league's last season.
Since then, both teams have struggled for wins, ad both were coming off bad losses. Baylor had turnovers its first six possessions in a 52-14 loss at North Texas last week, and the Mustangs lost 58-10 at Texas Tech in their opener two weeks ago.
The Bears won their 18th game since joining the Big 12. SMU, now in the WAC, has 26 wins the last eight seasons, and had four taken away because of an ineligible player in 1998.
Baylor's first drive of the second half started at the SMU 35 after Willie Andrews' 22-yard punt return. Aaron Karas' 19-yard pass to Robert Quiroga and a facemask penalty against SMU set up Armstrong's TD run.
Kenny Webb, who kicked a 47-yard field goal in the first half, missed a 51-yard attempt on Baylor's next possession.
After the missed field goal, SMU managed only one first down before punting and got into Baylor territory only one other time. Chris McMurtray was wide left on a 38-yard field goal attempt midway with 8:32 left.
Chris Cunningham's 22-yard punt return late in the first quarter set up the Mustangs at Baylor 33, and they needed nine plays to score. Kincade had seven carries for 18 yards, twice converting third-and-short, before Richard Bartel's 5-yard TD pass to Matt Rushbrook.
During a 4?-minute stretch in the second quarter when they deflected a punt, recovered a fumble on a botched punt return and had an interception, the Bears managed just a field goal.
Baylor went three-and-out after the 8-yard SMU punt, but its line-drive punt bounced off Cunningham and was recovered by Quiroga at the 18. After Karas was sacked on consecutive plays, Webb kicked his field goal.
Andrews then intercepted a pass by Bartel at the SMU 30, but Baylor gave the ball back two plays later when Armstrong fumbled.
