BAYLOR Bears

National Forecast: 58 • Big 12 Prediction: 8 • Projected Record: 6-6, 3-6 Big 12

Jeff Grimes can’t imagine trying to install a new offense without spring ball. “We lost most of our spring at BYU last year, but that was my third year there. It was different,” says Grimes, who left BYU in January to join head coach Dave Aranda at Baylor as offensive coordinator. Talk about your perfect storm. As a firsttime head coach, Aranda was trying to implement new offensive and defensive systems last year during a pandemic and didn’t get one day of spring ball. The end result was a 2–7 finish just a year after playing in the Big 12 Championship Game and Sugar Bowl with current Carolina Panthers head coach Matt Rhule. His confidence not shaken, Aranda says the Baylor men’s basketball team’s national championship provided a blueprint of…

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Athlon Sports (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2021 National College Football

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