Baylor vs. West Virginia final score: Geno Smith powers record-breaking win

Nick Saban has a point about points, but he's also a curmudgeon

A scoreboard-shattering shootout every now and then never hurt anybody, but Nick Saban's just being Nick Saban.

The Numerical, Week 5: Yards, points and outsourced Iowa jokes

The numbers that mattered in Week 5 of the college football season. But mostly yards and points.

West Virginia vs. Baylor: Defenses ineffective in shootout

Geno Smith and the West Virginia Mountaineers tore up the scoreboard alongside the Baylor Bears on Saturday during their 70-63 win. The two teams combined for over 1,500 yards of offense and the scoreline indicates pretty clearly just how much defense the two teams managed to play.

West Virginia blog The Smoking Musket put the focus on the defense, which gave up almost as much as their offense put up. Fortunately for them, they doubt that they'll face another offense like the one Baylor showed any time soon:

The one consolation I keep repeating to myself is that WVU will likely not face an offense of that caliber again the rest of the year (hopefully ever).

Baylor blog Our Daily Bears took the same approach, noting that the offense was as fantastic as it could be but the defense was leaving way too much to be desired:

Our biggest problem at this point is clearly the defensive line, where we're playing a redshirt freshman in an alignment we've never used before because we lost our starter before the season. Over and over again before the game I stressed that pressure would make all the difference; we couldn't expect any secondary, much less ours, to cover receivers like WVU's indefinitely. Today, we got almost zero effective pressure even when we did bring extra rushers. They were close on numerous occasions, but not close enough to impact the play and Geno Smith picked us apart. With better talent, close plays missed become important plays made. That we lack that talent in certain important areas now is not Bennett's fault.

Baylor will move on to play TCU in two weeks while WVU will face the Texas Longhorns in their next game. Both schools will assuredly be looking for some improved defensive play for their next games after one of the greatest shootouts in college football we've ever seen.

Watch 'Shutdown Fullback' scream about Baylor-West Virginia!

WOOWEE what a shootout that was between West Virginia and Baylor! The world's only college football show is here to recap that and much more from Week 5!

West Virginia vs. Baylor 2012 highlights: Highest scoring football game in Big 12 history

Geno Smith of the West Virginia Mountaineers outpaced Nick Florence of the Baylor Bears in a 70-63 track meet.

College football rankings, Week 6: West Virginia, Texas sure to rise

The West Virginia Mountaineers and the Texas Longhorns are ready to rise in the top 25 after big victories over Baylor and Oklahoma State respectively. Stanford will probably fall after an upset loss to Washington.

Baylor vs. West Virginia 2012 results: Geno Smith, Mountaineers win epic slugfest, 70-63

West Virginia defeated Baylor in an offensive slugfest that featured a combined 133 points and nearly 1,500 total yards.

Geno Smith leads avalanche of stats in record-breaking Baylor-WVU game

You'll get winded just reading about the stats from Saturday's matchup between Baylor and West Virginia.

CATCH OF THE MILLENIUM OF THE HOUR: J.D. Woods' 1-hander vs. Baylor

The battle for CATCH OF THE [time measurement] might be done thanks to this plunging grab by West Virginia's J.D. Woods. GIF:

Geno Smith, WVU putting up ridiculous stats

Midway through the third quarter, Baylor and West Virginia have combined for 84 points. They had 70 at the half, and neither defense looks too interested in putting up a fight. Add it all up and you've got ridiculous stat lines that are sure to grow to even more ridiculous levels before this game is over.

• Geno Smith is 34-of-38 for 436 yards and six touchdowns. There's still nine minutes left in the third quarter.
• That's more touchdowns than incompletions for Smith, also known as the Robert Griffin III stat.
• Marc Bulger held the school record for touchdowns in a game, but Smith is threatening to put the thing out of reach. The record was six, and Smith has already tied it. The way we're going, Smith could get into double-digits
• Tavon Austin: 12 catches for 204 yards and two touchdowns.
• Stedman Bailey: Nine catches for 126 yards and three touchdowns
• J.D. Woods: 10 catches for 85 yards and a touchdown
• West Virginia has 532 total yards so far, 436 of which have come through the air.
• Andrew Buie has 66 yards on 14 carries, so West Virginia could pile a 100-yard rusher on top of all this.

The game isn't out of reach by any means, meaning there's no reason for Dana Holgorsen to take his foot off the gas (as if he would anyway). Everyone just sit back and watch the show.

West Virginia's checkerboard looks so pretty this time of year

The Mountaineers have no defense and can gather large amounts of people based on the color of a T-shirt, thus officially qualifying them for Big 12 membership.

Good job, good effort Tavon Austin

When celebrations go wrong.

Did Nick Florence cross the line of scrimmage or not?

Bears QB Nick Florence got mighty close to the line of scrimmage before throwing the eleventy-twelfth touchdown of Baylor-West Virginia. After further review, officials concluded he did not cross, meaning yet another touchdown rang up the scoreboard.

Have a look for yourself, but keep in mind the blue line isn't official, and is just FOX's best estimation of where the line is:

Going by the line, he appears to have executed a perfect handball shot. Remember handball? The internet loved that sport.

This feels super important right now, as it's 35-35 at the half, but seriously, we won't even remember this after like 17 more touchdowns.

The slow mo version:

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Nick Florence can multitask

Sure, Nick Florence was being sacked and the play is still live. But that wasn't going to stop him from making sure the refs saw a facemask.

Stedman Bailey catch lights up Baylor-West Virginia

Baylor-West Virginia's lacked highlights, you say? We were promised big plays and billions of touchdowns? Geno Smith and Stedman Bailey are trying to help. Bailey's beautiful, 47-yard, over-the-shoulder grab to tie this Big 12 shootout back up:

Smith's now 18-of-20 for 171 yards and two touchdowns with 36 minutes still to go. Heisman front-runner indeed.

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Baylor vs. West Virginia game time, TV schedule, spread and more

The West Virginia Mountaineers and Baylor Bears will tangle on Saturday in what figures to be an offensive explosion.

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