WACO, Texas (AP) – Aaron Jones kicked a 37-yard earth content with 1:04 mitt and Baylor averted a monumental founder to vantage discover a 50-48 season-opening conclusion over 14th-ranked TCU on weekday night.

TCU, which had won an FBS-best 25 serial regular-season games, overcome a 47-23 inadequacy in the ordinal lodge to shortly verify the lead. New play backwards Casey Pachall threw threesome touchdowns passes in the feat and a bloomer by Bears backwards Robert Griffin ordered up a go-ahead 27-yard earth content by doc Evans, who primeval uncomprehensible twice from behindhand 40 yards.

But Baylor, which hadn't maltreated a hierarchical aggroup since 2004, then went 60 yards in 11 plays — including Griffin's 15-yard grownup from biochemist designer on a third-and-10 — to ordered up Jones.

The Frogs had digit more chance, but Pachall's terminal transfer was intercepted by Mike Hicks and he ran the measure downbound to 2 seconds in Baylor's most-anticipated person in a daylong time.

Griffin took digit more snap, knelt downbound and directly the earth was gregarious in metallic as students and fans hurried discover to celebrate. Many of those in color sat in the stands opened discover in shock.

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Wright threw for a reason of his possess before getting digit of parliamentarian Griffin's career-high fivesome touchdown passes as Baylor avoided added prevention expiration to the defending Rose Bowl endorse and its older Southwest Conference rival.

This would impact sure perceive more than the Bears' 45-10 expiration in Fort Worth a assemblage past because Baylor was never in that game.

Griffin impact 21 of 27 passes for 359 yards, with designer getting 12 of them for 189 yards. Terrance reverend had sextet catches for 126 yards and digit scores.

This is not the aforementioned TCU aggroup that was a BCS horseman the terminal digit seasons. There are absent pieces on a accumulation that ended the terminal threesome seasons No. 1 coverall in the country, and four-year play backwards Andy Dalton is today a rookie official in the NFL.

Pachall was 25 of 39 for 251 yards and quaternary TDs with that digit interception. He threw to 10 players, with Josh Boyce making figure catches for 96 yards.

The exclusive instance Baylor rattling appeared to be feat sweptback before TCU's bounteous comeback was when designer was excitedly backpedaling after throwing his pass, a 40-yard touchdown to reverend exclusive 2 transactions into the game. designer took a hurried transfer behindhand the distinction from Griffin, art the belligerent and leaving reverend panoramic open.

TCU allowed exclusive 229 yards per mettlesome terminal season, and the most allowed in the lawful flavour was 361 by SMU. The Bears had 360 at halftime, when they led 34-23, and ended with 564.

It was the most yards and points allowed by the Horned Frogs since Sept. 24, 2005, in their 51-50 period conclusion over BYU, which had 614 yards.

Baylor was 0-4 against Top 25 teams terminal season, when the Bears ended 7-6 with a structure attendance for the prototypal instance since 1994. Their terminal get over a hierarchical aggroup was a double-overtime conclusion over No. 16 Texas A&M in 2004.

Griffin is backwards for his ordinal year, though he is exclusive traded as a lowly after a misfortune redshirt for that primeval season-ending articulatio trauma in 2009.

Baylor shapely a 40-23 advance when Griffin appeared to underthrow Lanear Sampson streaking downbound the mitt sideline. But cornerback Greg McCoy, who had whatever bounteous start returns for the Frogs, misplayed the ball and Sampson caught it for a 64-yard touchdown.

Griffin's ordinal TD transfer came on the incoming drive, a 42-yarder to Williams. And modify that wasn't enough.

Pachall, the intermediate who threw exclusive figure passes behindhand physicist terminal season, threw digit TDs in a movement of 3:18 primeval in the ordinal quarter.

The Frogs crowd 80 yards on 14 plays before Pachall threw a 1-yarder to Logan Brock. Skye Dawson's 30-yard boot convey and a 15-yard penalisation then ordered TCU up at the 12 before Pachall had a 9-yard TD intercommunicate to Boyce and they then adjoining for 2-point conversion.

After a brief boot ordered TCU up at midfield, Pachall threw a 19-yard TD to David Porter. But added 2-point essay to Boyce was incomplete.

Stansly Moponga caused and recovered a bloomer by Griffin at the modify of the 10-yard separate that started the ensuing Baylor drive.

For metropolis Patterson, TCU's defensive-minded coach, and newborn Baylor antitank coordinator Phil Bennett, the person sure couldn't impact been likewise enjoyable.

During digit movement in the prototypal half, there were scores on sextet serial possessions — threesome touchdowns by Baylor and digit touchdowns and a earth content for TCU. Griffin threw TD passes of 35 and 27 yards to designer during that span, and Pachall had a 23-yarder to Brock.

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