Baylor vs. Texas Tech – Sport Recap – October 29, 2022

LUBBOCK, Texas — — Freshman Richard Reese ran for 148 yards and three touchdowns, AJ McCarty returned an interception for a rating and Baylor beat Texas Tech 45-17 on Saturday night time.

Second amongst NCAA freshmen in yards dashing coming in, Reese had 53 of the 75 yards on a drive to his tiebreaking 1-yard TD within the second quarter as Baylor (5-3, 3-2 Huge 12) dominated time of possession.

Baylor ended a 10-game shedding streak in Lubbock whereas handing Texas Tech (4-4, 2-3) its first house loss below coach Joey McGuire, the lifelong Texan who was a Baylor assistant the previous 5 seasons.

On an evening Texas Tech celebrated star Kansas Metropolis quarterback Patrick Mahomes as its eighth ring of honor member, the Purple Raiders ended up throwing 5 interceptions whereas attempting all of their high three QBs.

“I believe offensively what Tech was doing actually stresses you,” Baylor coach Dave Aranda mentioned. “There’s a good quantity of creativity with their tempo. I credit score the gamers as a result of they went out and actually had a chip on their shoulder and performed with an edge.”

Tyler Shough entered trailing 31-17 within the fourth quarter for the primary time since injuring his shoulder because the opening day starter, and McCarty stepped in entrance of his first move and ran untouched 18 yards down the sideline.

Freshman Behren Morton was 4 of 17 with two interceptions and three sacks after a choose within the first minute of the second half arrange Blake Shapen‘s 9-yard TD move to Hal Presley for a 24-3 Baylor lead.

Morton responded with two touchdowns, together with his 8-yard run on fourth-and-7 to get Texas Tech inside 24-17 after a fumble by Reese.

The Purple Raiders have been as much as 4 interceptions — three from Morton and one other from Donovan Smith on considered one of his two passes when McGuire turned to Shough, who the coach mentioned can be out there subsequent week.

“Received to take a look at the movie and see what these guys did good,” McGuire mentioned. “It was sort of a type of offers the place we acquired the purpose late within the sport, we have been actually attempting to verify we didn’t come out with any person banged up or damage.”

Reese’s third TD was a 1-yard plunge to cap an 11-play, 75-yard drive after the Purple Raiders had pulled inside seven.

“It was good to see,” Aranda mentioned. “I believed the offensive line actually took it upon themselves to impose their will and to actually be bodily, and our working backs actually labored on enjoying behind their pads and churning their legs and all of it.”

Morton completed 11 of 33 for 152 yards and three interceptions. Shapen was rather more environment friendly, going 19 of 30 for 211 yards with a TD and no interceptions for the defending Huge 12 champions.

THE TAKEAWAY

Baylor: With a 21-point lead right down to seven, Reese had a 16-yard run on third-and-3 to spark the TD drive that ended along with his 1-yard rating. Simply considered one of Reese’s first 9 TDs was on the street coming in. He was coming off a 186-yard outing with two TDs at house in opposition to Kansas.

Texas Tech: The Purple Raiders ran simply 27 performs within the first half and completed with 73 after coming in main the FBS at almost 90 performs per sport.

UP NEXT

Baylor: At Oklahoma subsequent Saturday.

Texas Tech: At undefeated No. 7 TCU subsequent Saturday.

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