On August 31, the Baylor Bears will open their 2024 college football schedule versus Tarleton State, an FCS opponent. See below for more information.

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2024 Baylor Game and TV Schedule

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Baylor 2024 Strength of Schedule

• In terms of difficulty, based on their opponents’ combined win total last season, the Bears will be facing the 55th-ranked schedule this year.
• In terms of difficulty, using our predictions, Baylor will be playing the 27th-ranked schedule this year.
• According to its opponents’ projected win total this season (80), Baylor has the 12th-toughest schedule in college football.
• The Bears are playing the 22nd-hardest conference schedule this season (based on their Big 12 opponents’ combined win total last year).
• Baylor has a schedule that includes seven games in 2024 against teams that finished over .500 in 2023 (one of those teams won nine or more games and zero of them picked up less than four wins).
• The Bears will have seven games against teams who played in a bowl in 2023 bowl.

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Baylor Stat Insights (2023)

• With 421.3 yards allowed per game on defense, which ranked 21st-worst in FBS, the Bears were forced to lean on their 73rd-ranked offense (377.8 yards per contest) to keep them in games last season.
• Despite sporting a bottom-25 scoring defense that ranked 18th-worst in FBS last season (33.3 points allowed per game), Baylor had more success offensively, ranking 101st in FBS by totaling 23.1 points per game.
• The Bears averaged 263 passing yards per game on offense last season, which ranked them 37th in FBS. On the other side of the ball, they ranked 85th, surrendering 236.4 passing yards per contest.
• Baylor ranked 23rd-worst in rushing offense (114.8 rushing yards per game) and 16th-worst in rushing defense (184.9 rushing yards per game allowed) last season.
• Despite having a bottom-25 defense on third down that ranked 22nd-worst in FBS last season (44.1% third-down percentage), the Bears put up better results offensively, ranking 92nd in FBS by posting a 36.2% third-down conversion rate.
• Baylor forced 15 total turnovers (99th in FBS) last season and turned it over 15 times (35th in FBS) for a turnover margin of an even, 69th-ranked in college football.

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