Dave Campbell: Baylor beats Iowa State in conference opener

There is a time-honored axiom that you cannot take the foot out of football, nor can you take the toe out of the foot. The Baylor Bears used both to ease past the visiting Iowa State Cyclones and win the team’s Big 12 Conference opener, 23-21, before a sweltering crowd of an announced 42,359 fans eager to see what their favorite team can do. What they saw was their Bears can do what what did several times last season when they nosed past both Kansas State and Oklahoma State with just seconds left on the scoreboard clock.

Just enough time for red-shirt freshman John Mayers to kick a 38-yard field goal into the swirling wind. He had missed one earlier when he had the tricky wind at his back. The scoreboard clock showed 21 seconds left.