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Why Baylor football is unstoppable in close games
The Baylor Bears beat West Virginia on Thursday night at McLane Stadium and moved to 4-0 in one-score games in 2019. Here's why the Bears keep winning those critical games in the biggest moments.
WACO -- Fireworks shot out of the roof at McLane Stadium as Baylor jogged in front of its band. The scheduled postgame pyrotechnic show was the most explosive thing inside the venue on Halloween, but it didn’t really matter.
The No. 12 Bears inched past Big 12 doormat West Virginia, 17-14, in the ugliest win BU’s newish home has seen in its short history. There’s math to back that up; the Bears haven’t won a game while scoring fewer than 20 points since Sept. 30, 2006, when Guy Morris led the program. It’s a far cry from recent history, when the Bears fielded some of the most explosive offenses in program history. But now, for just the third time in program history, the Bears are 8-0.
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