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Texas Tech football report card: Dissecting a blowout home loss to Baylor
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Josh Cameron caught three touchdown passes and set up another TD with a long punt return, and Baylor routed the Texas Tech football team 59-35 Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium, costing the Red Raiders a share of the Big 12 lead.
Bryson Washington rushed for 116 yards and two touchdowns for Baylor (3-4, 1-3), which had lost 17 of its previous 22 games.
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Caleb Douglas caught three touchdown passes for Tech (5-2, 3-1), and Tahj Brooks got his 18th career 100-yard game with 125 on 25 carries. Douglas (99 yards) and Josh Kelly (76 yards) caught nine passes apiece. Behren Morton had 286 passing yards and his first interception in five games.
Former Coronado quarterback Sawyer Robertson , playing for Baylor against his hometown team, threw for 274 yards and a career-high five touchdowns. The last four blew open the game after Brooks went 31 yards on fourth-and-1 for a touchdown that narrowed the gap to 24-21 early in the third quarter.
On Baylor's next four series, Robertson connected with Cameron from 11 yards, Hal Presley from 35 yards, Monaray Baldwin from 24 yards and Cameron again from 12 yards, making it 52-21.
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Washington scored twice on 1-yard runs, the first after his own 44-yard burst and the second after Cameron's 73-yard punt return.
Rara Dilworth recovered a muffed kickoff by Drae McCray, positioning the Bears for a field goal that made the lead 17-7. Tech narrowed the gap to 17-14 at 1:54 before halftime on a 20-yard trick-play touchdown pass to Douglas from tight end Jalin Conyers.
Armed with three timeouts, Baylor went 75 yards and Cameron got open for a 6-yard TD catch at 4 seconds before halftime.
Here is the Red Raiders' report card.
Monaray Baldwin #4 of Baylor Bears runs with the ball during the first half of the game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders at Jones AT&T Stadium on October 19, 2024 in Lubbock, Texas.
Offense: F
Brooks and Douglas were bright spots in an otherwise ho-hum performance. Too many non-productive stretches.
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Defense: F
An effective Baylor run game set the tone. Then Robertson faced little pressure and sliced up the pass defense.
Special teams: F
A smorgasbord of gaffes included fair-catch interference, a shanked punt, a line-drive punt that yielded a big return, a muffed kickoff and a kickoff out of bounds. Uncharacteristic from units that have been a strength.
Coaching: F
Joey McGuire has a Dave Aranda problem. Baylor's embattled coach has spanked Tech on two trips in a row to Lubbock.
Overall: F
Home games against second-division teams are ones Tech has to take advantage of. This was the perceived easiest game of the last six.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech football report card: Dissecting blowout home loss to Baylor
