1980 Baylor Bears football team

1980 Baylor Bears football

Southwest Conference Champions
Cotton Bowl Classic, L, vs. Alabama, 2–30
Conference	Southwest Conference
1980 record	10-2 ( SWC)
Head coach	Grant Teaff
Home stadium	Baylor Stadium

1980 Southwest Conference football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#14 Baylor $	8	–	0	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
#20 SMU	5	–	3	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
Houston	5	–	3	–	0	7	–	5	–	0
Texas	4	–	4	–	0	7	–	5	–	0
Rice	4	–	4	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Arkansas	3	–	5	–	0	7	–	5	–	0
Texas Tech	3	–	5	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Texas A&M	3	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
TCU	1	–	7	–	1	1	–	10	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1980 Baylor Bears football team represented the Baylor University in the 1980 college football season. The Bears finished the season first in the Southwest Conference. During Mike Singletary's senior season of 1980, Baylor won 10 games for the only time in school history to that point (Baylor would finally match that total during its 2011 season). Throughout his Baylor career, Singletary averaged 15 tackles per game. After Baylor's 16-0 victory over Texas in the Regular Season finale, the Longhorns would not suffer another shutout for 24 years, which was one of the longest anti-shutout streaks in college football history.

Schedule

Date	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	Result	Attendance
September 13	at Lamar*		Provost Umphrey Stadium • Beaumont, TX	W 42–7	18,500
September 20	West Texas State*		Baylor Stadium • Waco, TX	W 43–15	25,000
September 27	at Texas Tech		Jones Stadium • Lubbock, TX	W 11–3	48,539
October 4	Houston	#20	Baylor Stadium • Waco, TX	W 24–12	40,000
October 11	#20 SMU	#18	Baylor Stadium • Waco, TX	W 32–28	35,000
October 18	at Texas A&M	#13	Kyle Field • College Station, TX	W 46–7	69,735
October 25	at TCU	#11	Amon G. Carter Stadium • Fort Worth, TX	W 21–6	22,385
November 1	San Jose State*	#10	Baylor Stadium • Waco, TX	L 22–30	35,000
November 8	Arkansas	#16	Baylor Stadium • Waco, TX	W 42–15	46,000
November 15	at Rice	#12	Rice Stadium • Houston, TX	W 16–6	26,000
November 22	#20 Texas	#11	Baylor Stadium • Waco, TX	W 16–0	48,500
January 1	vs. #9 Alabama*	#6	Cotton Bowl • Dallas, TX (Cotton Bowl Classic)	L 2–30	74,281
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to game. All times are in Central Time.

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Game notes

Texas Tech

Baylor at Texas Tech

	1	2	Total
• Baylor	4	7	11
Texas Tech	0	3	3

Date: Saturday, September 28
Location: Jones Stadium, Lubbock, Texas
Game weather: Rain

Source: Palm Beach Post

Baylor's first win in Lubbock since 1966.

Team Players drafted into the NFL

The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.

Player	Position	Round	Pick	Franchise
Mike Singletary	Linebacker	2	38	Chicago Bears
Robert Holt	Wide Receiver	6	161	Buffalo Bills
Doak Field	Linebacker	7	192	Philadelphia Eagles
Mike Fisher	Wide Receiver	8	198	St. Louis Cardinals
Frank Ditta	Guard	9	232	Chicago Bears

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Awards and honors

Mike Singletary, (All-America) honors
Mike Singletary, Davey O'Brien Memorial Trophy, awarded to the most outstanding player in the Southwest Conference.^[3]

References

Baylor Bears football

Venues	Carroll Field (1902–1925, 1930–1935) Cotton Palace (alternate, 1902–1929) Municipal Stadium (1936–1949) Floyd Casey Stadium (1950–2013) McLane Stadium (2014–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games TCU Texas A&M: Battle of the Brazos Texas Tech

Culture & lore	"Old Fite" The Golden Wave Band

People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders

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Southwest Conference football champions

Oklahoma & Baylor (1915) Texas (1916) Texas A&M (1917) Texas & Oklahoma (1918) Texas A&M (1919) Texas (1920) Texas A&M (1921) Baylor (1922) SMU (1923) Baylor (1924) Texas A&M (1925) SMU (1926) Texas A&M (1927) Texas (1928) TCU (1929) Texas (1930) SMU (1931) TCU (1932) Arkansas (1933) Rice (1934) SMU (1935) Arkansas (1936) Rice (1937) TCU (1938) Texas A&M (1939) Texas A&M (1940) Texas A&M (1941) Texas (1942) Texas (1943) TCU (1944) Texas (1945) Rice & Arkansas (1946) SMU (1947) SMU (1948) Rice (1949) Texas (1950) TCU (1951) Texas (1952) Rice & Texas (1953) Arkansas (1954) TCU (1955) Texas A&M (1956) Rice (1957) TCU (1958) Arkansas, Texas, & TCU (1959) Arkansas (1960) Texas & Arkansas (1961) Texas (1962) Texas (1963) Arkansas (1964) Arkansas (1965) SMU (1966) Texas A&M (1967) Arkansas & Texas (1968) Texas (1969) Texas (1970) Texas (1971) Texas (1972) Texas (1973) Baylor (1974) Arkansas, Texas & Texas A&M (1975) Houston & Texas Tech (1976) Texas (1977) Houston (1978) Arkansas & Houston (1979) Baylor (1980) SMU (1981) SMU (1982) Texas (1983) SMU & Houston (1984) Texas A&M (1985) Texas A&M (1986) Texas A&M (1987) Arkansas (1988) Arkansas (1989) Texas (1990) Texas A&M (1991) Texas A&M (1992) Texas A&M (1993) Texas A&M (1994) Texas (1995)

National championships in bold

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