Some facts about the 2008 Baylor Bears:
SCHOOL COLORS: Green and gold
FOUNDED: 1845
ENROLLMENT: 14,174
LOCATED: Waco, Texas
COACH: Art Briles, first season at Baylor, sixth overall (34-28)
2007 RECORD: 3-9 (0-8, 6th Big 12 South)
LAST BOWL: 1994 Alamo Bowl, lost to Washington State 10-3
STADIUM: Floyd Casey Stadium (50,000)
RETURNING STARTERS: 15 (9 offense, 6 defense)
KEY PLAYERS: LB Joe Pawelek, WR David Gettis, LT Jason Smith, WR Thomas White, DE Jason Lamb, DT Vincent Rhodes, FS Jordan Lake.
KEY RECRUITS: WR Kendall Wright, K Ben Parks, QB Robert Griffin, QB-RB Jeremy Sanders.
KEY DEPARTURES: RB Brandon Whitaker, OG Chad Smith, LB Nick Moore, CB Josh Bell.
COACHSPEAK: “The biggest challenge, without a doubt, is I feel like when people haven’t had a lot of success, a lot of times they’re scared of success.”—Briles.
2008 SCHEDULE:
Aug. 28—Wake Forest
Sept. 6—Northwestern State
Sept. 13—Washington State
Sept. 19—at Connecticut
Oct. 4—Oklahoma
Oct. 11—Iowa State
Oct. 18—at Oklahoma State
Oct. 25—at Nebraska
Nov. 1—Missouri
Nov. 8—at Texas
Nov. 15—Texas A&M
Nov. 29—at Texas Tech
