The SMU Mustangs couldn’t carry the momentum of their 42-13 win over East Texas A&M last week into their game against the Baylor Bears on Saturday.
It took two overtime periods, but the Mustangs (1-1) fell for the first time this season, 48-45, to the Bears in Dallas at Gerald J. Ford Stadium.

Baylor quarterback Sawyer Robertson threw two of his four total touchdown passes in the final 5 1/2 minutes of the fourth quarter before redshirt freshman kicker Conner Hawkins kicked a game-ending 27-yard field goal in the second overtime to beat the No. 17 Mustangs on their home turf.

Roberts finished 34-of-50 with 440 yards for Baylor (1-1), and Bryson Washington added 115 yards on the ground and two scores, including a two-yard TD run in the first overtime, as the Bears have now won 14 in a row over their former Southwest Conference rival since 1986.

“It’s a way competitive group. There’s guys that want to win. … We talk about battle, and hey, you’re in it to win it. You saw that,” Baylor coach Dave Aranda said. “We can’t get all 14 (points) back right now, so I just said one play at a time,” Robertson said about the deficit midway through the fourth quarter. “In my brain, I was thinking that we’ve got to make something shake and pretty fast. Thankfully, we did, and then we had to get the ball back and go do it again. Pretty crazy.”

SMU kicker Collin Rogers missed two field goals, including a 57-yarder at the end of regulation and a 38-yard try in the second overtime period after the Mustangs’ offense failed to produce a first down.

Kevin Jennings threw for 296 yards and three touchdown passes and TJ Harden ran for 115 yards and three touchdowns.

“For 3 1/2 quarters, we were the better team and then we didn’t finish. You can’t start the job and not finish the job,” SMU coach Rhett Lashlee said. “Obviously, in the second overtime we weren’t able to put the ball in the end zone, and then on top of it we missed the field goal. So we kind of it made it easy on them, didn’t make them have any game pressure there.”

Ashton Hawkins posted 10 catches for Baylor for 145 yards of the 601 total yards gained by the Bears. This was just the seventh time the two schools have played each other since the breakup of the SWC after the 1995 season – the two campuses are just 100 miles apart.

Up next, Baylor heads home to play FCS Samford on Saturday, while the Mustangs play at Missouri State, a first-year FBS team in Conference USA, also on Saturday.