Saturday, October 4
Waco, Texas
11 a.m.
Baylor
vs
Kansas State
FB Hosts Kansas State on Saturday at McLane Stadium
9/28/2025 3:37:00 PM | Football
WACO, Texas -- Baylor football will return to McLane Stadium on Saturday to play host to Kansas State with kickoff slated for 11 a.m. with the broadcast live on ESPN+ and the Baylor Sports Media Network. The game will be presented by McDonald's and will serve as Baylor's annual "Go Gold" game.
Baylor (3-2, 1-1 Big 12 Conference) faces Kansas State (2-3, 1-1 Big 12) in its final game of a six-game stretch to open the season that featured matchups with Auburn, No. 16 SMU, Arizona State, Oklahoma State and the Cats. Following the K-State game, the Bears will break for an idle week in advance of its game at TCU on Oct. 18.
The Bears are coming off a 45-27 win at Oklahoma State on Saturday in Stillwater, their third win at OSU since WW2. Baylor used a blistering offensive performance and a stingy second-half defensive outing to post the win over OSU. BU rolled to 612 yards of total offense, including 393 yards passing and five TDs from the nation's leader in passing yards, passing TDs and passing yards per game, Sawyer Robertson. Baylor allowed just 99 yards of total offense in the second half vs. OSU, including eight yards rushing.
SCOUTING THE CATS
• Kansas State enters the matchup with the Bears fresh off a win over UCF in Manhattan last weekend. The Wildcats snapped a two-game skid that saw a loss at Arizona and vs. Army, with a win over North Dakota and a narrow loss vs. Iowa State in Dublin, Ireland, on the docket.
• QB Avery Johnson leads the offensive attack for the Cats. RB Dylan Edwards entered the year as one of the best tailbacks in the nation but has battled injuries in the early going for K-State. Joe Jackson has shouldered the load in the running game. Jayce Brown leads the team in the passing game.
• Defensively, Austin Romaine is one of the most accomplished linebackers in the Big 12.
• The Wildcats are led by head coach Chris Klieman, who is in his seventh year after taking over the program from legendary head coach Bill Snyder. Klieman came to K-State after a decorated career at the FCS level, leading North Dakota State from 2014-18, which included four FCS national titles in his five years at the established powerhouse school. He led K-State to the 2022 Big 12 Championship with a 10-4 season and a berth in the Sugar Bowl, and wins in the 2019 Liberty Bowl and the 2022 Texas Bowl. His career began at his alma matter, Northern Iowa, in 1991 and has seen him coach at Western Illinois, Kansas, Missouri State, Loras College (Iowa), Northern Iowa a second time and North Dakota State, where he was the DB coach and defensive coordinator for three years before taking over the helm.
• Klieman is assisted by assistant head coach Van Malone, who is the cornerbacks and passing-game coordinator. He served as the SMU defensive coordinator from 2015-17, also working at Oklahoma State, Tulsa, Texas A&M, Western Michigan and North Dakota State. Joe Klanderman is the defensive coordinator, who came with Klieman from North Dakota State, where he coached DBs from 2014-18 after opening his career at Minnesota State. Former Texas Tech head coach Matt Wells is in his first year leading the offense as the associate head coach.
• Gene Taylor is in his seventh year as the AD at Kansas State. He was named the 2022-23 Cushman & Wakefield FBS AD of the Year, is on the CFP Selection Committee and the LEAD1 Board of Directors. He graduated from Arizona State in 1980 and earned his master's degree from St. Thomas (Fla.) University. He worked in the ticket office at SMU, before time at Navy, which included time as the commissioner of the 5-team Collegiate Sprint Football League that included Army, Navy, Penn, Princeton and Cornell. He was the AD at North Dakota State for 13 years before time as the Deputy AD at Iowa, starting in 2014. His wife Cathy has a daughter, Casey and son, Jared. Deputy AD Jill Shields serves as the sport administrator for football, one of just three power-3 SPAs in the nation.
SERIES HISTORY
• This will mark the 22nd all-time meeting in the series with Kansas State, with the two teams meeting each year since 2006. The series is led by K-State, 11-10, with the Bears holding a 6-5 lead in games played in Waco.
• The Bears had a four-game winning streak in the series snapped with a 31-3 loss to the Cats in 2022 in Waco. Baylor has won eight of the last 12 meetings in the series.
• Then-No. 25 K-State posted a 59-25 win over the Bears in Manhattan in 2023.
LAST MEETING
• The last times the two teams met in 2023, Kansas State used a monster first-half lead to post a 59-25 win over the Bears as the No. 25 team in the nation in Manhattan. The Cats jumped out to a 21-7 lead in the first quater and owned a 35-13 lead at halftime, stretching the lead out to 52-19 after thee quarters.
• K-State rolled to 451 yards of total offense, including 268 passing and 183 rushing, with QB Will Howard leading an elite offensive attack that allowed freshman QB Avery Johnson to get some minutes in the late going. Howard was 19-for-29 for 235 yards and three TDs, RB DJ Giddens rushed 18 times for 115 yards, and Ben Sinnott, Garrett Oakley and Giddens each had receiving TDs. Sinnott had three catches for 68 yards.
• BU QB Blake Shapen threw four TDs on 22-of-45 passing, while Dominic Richardson rushed 17 times for 89 yards. TE Drake Dabney caught four balls for 105 yards and a TD, while Dawson Pendergrass hauled in two TDs receiving. LB Jeremy Evans had the best game of his career, totaling a career-best seven tackles.
2022 MEETING
• In the 2022 meeting, Kansas State posted a 31-3 win over Baylor to snap a three-game BU winning streak in front of the ninth-largest crowd in McLane Stadium history.
• The Wildcats scored the first 17 points of the game and held complete control of the contest following an interception on Baylor's first drive of the game. Baylor cut the lead to 17-3 with a field goal from John Mayers to end the first half but couldn't muster anything the remaining 30 minutes as the Wildcats scored TDs in each quarter for a 28-point win.
• Kansas State held the football for 37:37 in the game and had the ball for over 11 minutes in the first and fourth quarters. The Wildcats rolled to 184 yards on the ground and threw for 221 yards as backup QB Will Howard replaced Adrian Martinez in the first quarter and threw for 196 yards and three TDs. Deuce Vaughn had 25 carries for 106 yards and added eight grabs for 50 yards and a TD.
• Baylor freshman Richard Reese led the offense with nine carries for 54 yards, with Blake Shapen throwing for 203 yards. Monaray Baldwin set a new career high with eight grabs, while Josh Cameron had career highs in catches (six) and yards (83).
LAST MEETING IN MANHATTAN
• Baylor posted a 20-10 win last year in Manhattan, improving to 9-2 and 6-2 in league with the win over Kansas State.
• The Bears got a strong performance from QB Blake Shapen off the bench as the freshman stepped right in for injured Gerry Bohanon and threw for 137 yards and rushed for 44 to help No. 11 BU to a pair of key field goals in the win. Bohanon strained his hamstring with 59 seconds left in the first half after going 9 of 14 for 76 yards and a TD, also rushing for 38 yards. Shapen came in and threw passes in five of his first six plays, connecting on a 32-yarder to Drew Estrada that led to an Isaiah Hankins 21-yard field goal to end the half with a 17-7 lead.
• After getting a key fourth-down stop to open the second half, K-State went 43 yards on five plays to make it a three-point game with 8:24 left in the third. Shapen then went to work on the ensuing drive, connecting on 6 of 9 passes for 32 yards, including a 28-yard run, that capped a 13-play, 72-yard drive with a Hankins field goal for a 20-10 lead.
• Al Walcott picked off a fourth-quarter pass in BU territory, and the Bears ran out the last three minutes to secure the win.
BU ROLLS TO WIN AT OKLAHOMA STATE
• Baylor won its fifth straight road game with a 45-27 win at Oklahoma State in Stillwater, exploding for 612 yards of total offense, while holding OSU to just 99 yards of offense in the second half.
• The Bears threw for 393 yards on the strength of QB Sawye Robertson, who tossed TD passes to four different receivers and rushed for a score late in the game. Baylor used a balanced rushing attack that saw freshmen Caden Knighten and Michael Turner rush a combined 18 times for 128 yards, with Knighten toting it five times for 81 yards and Turner carrying it a career-best 13 times for 47 yards. Kole Wilson, Kobe Prentice, Michael Trigg and Matthew Klopfenstein each had TD grabs, including a 73-yarder to Prentice to open the second half.
• Baylor rushed for 219 yards in the win, averaging 5.6 yards per carry.
• The win marked the third win for the Bears in Stillwater since WW2.
Baylor (3-2, 1-1 Big 12 Conference) faces Kansas State (2-3, 1-1 Big 12) in its final game of a six-game stretch to open the season that featured matchups with Auburn, No. 16 SMU, Arizona State, Oklahoma State and the Cats. Following the K-State game, the Bears will break for an idle week in advance of its game at TCU on Oct. 18.
The Bears are coming off a 45-27 win at Oklahoma State on Saturday in Stillwater, their third win at OSU since WW2. Baylor used a blistering offensive performance and a stingy second-half defensive outing to post the win over OSU. BU rolled to 612 yards of total offense, including 393 yards passing and five TDs from the nation's leader in passing yards, passing TDs and passing yards per game, Sawyer Robertson. Baylor allowed just 99 yards of total offense in the second half vs. OSU, including eight yards rushing.
SCOUTING THE CATS
• Kansas State enters the matchup with the Bears fresh off a win over UCF in Manhattan last weekend. The Wildcats snapped a two-game skid that saw a loss at Arizona and vs. Army, with a win over North Dakota and a narrow loss vs. Iowa State in Dublin, Ireland, on the docket.
• QB Avery Johnson leads the offensive attack for the Cats. RB Dylan Edwards entered the year as one of the best tailbacks in the nation but has battled injuries in the early going for K-State. Joe Jackson has shouldered the load in the running game. Jayce Brown leads the team in the passing game.
• Defensively, Austin Romaine is one of the most accomplished linebackers in the Big 12.
• The Wildcats are led by head coach Chris Klieman, who is in his seventh year after taking over the program from legendary head coach Bill Snyder. Klieman came to K-State after a decorated career at the FCS level, leading North Dakota State from 2014-18, which included four FCS national titles in his five years at the established powerhouse school. He led K-State to the 2022 Big 12 Championship with a 10-4 season and a berth in the Sugar Bowl, and wins in the 2019 Liberty Bowl and the 2022 Texas Bowl. His career began at his alma matter, Northern Iowa, in 1991 and has seen him coach at Western Illinois, Kansas, Missouri State, Loras College (Iowa), Northern Iowa a second time and North Dakota State, where he was the DB coach and defensive coordinator for three years before taking over the helm.
• Klieman is assisted by assistant head coach Van Malone, who is the cornerbacks and passing-game coordinator. He served as the SMU defensive coordinator from 2015-17, also working at Oklahoma State, Tulsa, Texas A&M, Western Michigan and North Dakota State. Joe Klanderman is the defensive coordinator, who came with Klieman from North Dakota State, where he coached DBs from 2014-18 after opening his career at Minnesota State. Former Texas Tech head coach Matt Wells is in his first year leading the offense as the associate head coach.
• Gene Taylor is in his seventh year as the AD at Kansas State. He was named the 2022-23 Cushman & Wakefield FBS AD of the Year, is on the CFP Selection Committee and the LEAD1 Board of Directors. He graduated from Arizona State in 1980 and earned his master's degree from St. Thomas (Fla.) University. He worked in the ticket office at SMU, before time at Navy, which included time as the commissioner of the 5-team Collegiate Sprint Football League that included Army, Navy, Penn, Princeton and Cornell. He was the AD at North Dakota State for 13 years before time as the Deputy AD at Iowa, starting in 2014. His wife Cathy has a daughter, Casey and son, Jared. Deputy AD Jill Shields serves as the sport administrator for football, one of just three power-3 SPAs in the nation.
SERIES HISTORY
• This will mark the 22nd all-time meeting in the series with Kansas State, with the two teams meeting each year since 2006. The series is led by K-State, 11-10, with the Bears holding a 6-5 lead in games played in Waco.
• The Bears had a four-game winning streak in the series snapped with a 31-3 loss to the Cats in 2022 in Waco. Baylor has won eight of the last 12 meetings in the series.
• Then-No. 25 K-State posted a 59-25 win over the Bears in Manhattan in 2023.
LAST MEETING
• The last times the two teams met in 2023, Kansas State used a monster first-half lead to post a 59-25 win over the Bears as the No. 25 team in the nation in Manhattan. The Cats jumped out to a 21-7 lead in the first quater and owned a 35-13 lead at halftime, stretching the lead out to 52-19 after thee quarters.
• K-State rolled to 451 yards of total offense, including 268 passing and 183 rushing, with QB Will Howard leading an elite offensive attack that allowed freshman QB Avery Johnson to get some minutes in the late going. Howard was 19-for-29 for 235 yards and three TDs, RB DJ Giddens rushed 18 times for 115 yards, and Ben Sinnott, Garrett Oakley and Giddens each had receiving TDs. Sinnott had three catches for 68 yards.
• BU QB Blake Shapen threw four TDs on 22-of-45 passing, while Dominic Richardson rushed 17 times for 89 yards. TE Drake Dabney caught four balls for 105 yards and a TD, while Dawson Pendergrass hauled in two TDs receiving. LB Jeremy Evans had the best game of his career, totaling a career-best seven tackles.
2022 MEETING
• In the 2022 meeting, Kansas State posted a 31-3 win over Baylor to snap a three-game BU winning streak in front of the ninth-largest crowd in McLane Stadium history.
• The Wildcats scored the first 17 points of the game and held complete control of the contest following an interception on Baylor's first drive of the game. Baylor cut the lead to 17-3 with a field goal from John Mayers to end the first half but couldn't muster anything the remaining 30 minutes as the Wildcats scored TDs in each quarter for a 28-point win.
• Kansas State held the football for 37:37 in the game and had the ball for over 11 minutes in the first and fourth quarters. The Wildcats rolled to 184 yards on the ground and threw for 221 yards as backup QB Will Howard replaced Adrian Martinez in the first quarter and threw for 196 yards and three TDs. Deuce Vaughn had 25 carries for 106 yards and added eight grabs for 50 yards and a TD.
• Baylor freshman Richard Reese led the offense with nine carries for 54 yards, with Blake Shapen throwing for 203 yards. Monaray Baldwin set a new career high with eight grabs, while Josh Cameron had career highs in catches (six) and yards (83).
LAST MEETING IN MANHATTAN
• Baylor posted a 20-10 win last year in Manhattan, improving to 9-2 and 6-2 in league with the win over Kansas State.
• The Bears got a strong performance from QB Blake Shapen off the bench as the freshman stepped right in for injured Gerry Bohanon and threw for 137 yards and rushed for 44 to help No. 11 BU to a pair of key field goals in the win. Bohanon strained his hamstring with 59 seconds left in the first half after going 9 of 14 for 76 yards and a TD, also rushing for 38 yards. Shapen came in and threw passes in five of his first six plays, connecting on a 32-yarder to Drew Estrada that led to an Isaiah Hankins 21-yard field goal to end the half with a 17-7 lead.
• After getting a key fourth-down stop to open the second half, K-State went 43 yards on five plays to make it a three-point game with 8:24 left in the third. Shapen then went to work on the ensuing drive, connecting on 6 of 9 passes for 32 yards, including a 28-yard run, that capped a 13-play, 72-yard drive with a Hankins field goal for a 20-10 lead.
• Al Walcott picked off a fourth-quarter pass in BU territory, and the Bears ran out the last three minutes to secure the win.
BU ROLLS TO WIN AT OKLAHOMA STATE
• Baylor won its fifth straight road game with a 45-27 win at Oklahoma State in Stillwater, exploding for 612 yards of total offense, while holding OSU to just 99 yards of offense in the second half.
• The Bears threw for 393 yards on the strength of QB Sawye Robertson, who tossed TD passes to four different receivers and rushed for a score late in the game. Baylor used a balanced rushing attack that saw freshmen Caden Knighten and Michael Turner rush a combined 18 times for 128 yards, with Knighten toting it five times for 81 yards and Turner carrying it a career-best 13 times for 47 yards. Kole Wilson, Kobe Prentice, Michael Trigg and Matthew Klopfenstein each had TD grabs, including a 73-yarder to Prentice to open the second half.
• Baylor rushed for 219 yards in the win, averaging 5.6 yards per carry.
• The win marked the third win for the Bears in Stillwater since WW2.
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