Duke Heads To Texas To Take On Baylor

For  the second straight week Duke will be on the road as they travel to Waco Texas where they will take on  Baylor on Saturday  but they will be doing so without a couple of key players who were injured in last Saturday's win at Northwestern.

Those players are starting quarterback Daniel Jones who had surgery on his clavicle on his non throwing side and Mark Gilbert who is a running back who had hip surgery. Daniel Jones is out indefiantly while Mark Gilbert is done for the season. "according to  http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771224&DB_OEM_ID=4200

With Daniel Jones out Quentin Harris will start at quarterback for Duke.

Duke who is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference comes into the game against Baylor who is a member of the Big Twelve with a record of 2-0 "according to http://www.goduke.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=4200&SPID=1843&SPSID=22666 while Baylor comes into the game also with a record of 2-0. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Last season Duke and Baylor met  in Durham and  Duke won the game by fourteen points with the final score being 34-20. "according to http://www.goduke.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4200&SPID=1843&SPSID=22666&q_season=2017&conf_school_id=

As for Duke's previous game, they routed Northwestern.

Daniel Jones threw for three touchdowns before leaving the game with an apparent injury, and Duke beat Northwestern 21-7 on Saturday. "according to http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771103&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Jones passed for three TDs in the second quarter, propelling the Blue Devils (2-0) to another victory over the Wildcats (1-1) after pounding them at home last year. But he got driven to the turf on a sack by Joe Gaziano at the end of the third and was replaced by Quentin Harris early in the fourth. "according to http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771103&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Jones completed 16 of 22 passes for 192 yards in another big game against Northwestern. He accounted for 413 total yards and four touchdowns in last year's 41-17 romp. "according to http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771103&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Johnathan Lloyd had 94 yards receiving, including a 52-yard touchdown catch in the second quarter. Davis Koppenhaver had a one-handed TD grab late in the first half, and the Blue Devils won for the 21st time in 24 non-conference games.

Northwestern's Clayton Thorson was 22 of 38 for 198 yards and an interception in his second game back from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. He again shared time with TJ Green, who went 9 for 18 for 84 yards and an interception. "according to http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771103&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Jeremy Larkin ran for 121 yards and a Northwestern touchdown after going for a career-high 143 in the opener against Purdue. Flynn Nagel had 12 catches for 133 yards both career bests. But the Wildcats lost for the first time since Penn State beat them last Oct. 7. "according to http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771103&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Jones threw for 159 yards and three touchdowns in the first half to help the Blue Devils grab a 21-7 lead. "according to http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771103&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Larkin broke off a 40-yard run to the 4 and carried it in from the 2 for Northwestern on the game's first possession. But three TD passes by Jones in the second quarter gave Duke a 14-point lead. "according to http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771103&DB_OEM_ID=4200

He connected with T.J. Rahming on a 9-yarder just over a minute in and the Blue Devils scored on back-to-back possessions to go up 21-7. "according to http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771103&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Marquis Waters intercepted Thorson in double coverage, leading to the Wildcats' Cameron Green getting ejected for a helmet-to-helmet hit on him. Jones connected with Lloyd deep down the middle on the next play for a 52-yard touchdown to put Duke on top. An open Koppenhaver made it a 14-point game with 2:18 left in the half when he reached up with his right hand and hauled in a 9-yard touchdown in the back of the end zone. "according to http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771103&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Northwestern had a first down at the Duke 9 early in the third. But the drive stalled, with Thorson getting sacked on fourth down at the 4. "according to http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22672&SPID=1843&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211771103&DB_OEM_ID=4200

As for Baylor's previous game, they beat UTSA. 

Even one of his top threats drops the occasional pass, as both Denzel Mims and Jalen Hurd did in Baylor's 37-20 win over UTSA Saturday night at the Alamodome, Charlie Brewer shrugs it off and goes right back to them. "according to
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Nobody's perfect, by all means," said Brewer, who was 23-of-34 for 328 yards and three touchdowns in helping the Bears get off to a 2-0 start after losing their first eight last season. "I missed a ton of stuff tonight. But, I have utmost respect in those guys and their ability." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

He should.  "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Hurd (8-136) and Mims (8-133) both had 100-yard receiving days, Hurd's first as a Bear since transferring from Tennessee and sitting out last season.  "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Comparing his first 100-yard receiving game to the 11 100-yard days he had as a running back with the Vols, Hurd said, "A lot less toll on my body, so I'm pretty happy about that." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

It was Mims' sixth 100-yard receiving game, which ranks as the 11th-best total in program history. He has caught at least two passes in 14 straight games, dating back to last season. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

"We just try to come in and take what we can. We don't ever try to force anything," Mims said, "because when you force things, they don't seem to go so good. We just try to take what we can get." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

In the 55-27, season-opening win over Abilene Christian, it was more the running game that carried the Bears, with both John Lovett and JaMycal Hasty topping the 100-yard mark. This time, with UTSA (0-2) stacking the line of scrimmage, Baylor could muster just 91 yards on 31 carries (2.9-yard averaghttps://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspxe) and struggled in short-yardage sand goal-line situations. "according to

"That's a good football team," coach Matt Rhule said of the Roadrunners, who handed Baylor a 17-10 loss at McLane Stadium last year. "They have edge, they're tough, they're big and they're physical. They held us under 100 yards (rushing), which is unacceptable." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Because of that, the Bears had to probably throw it more than Rhule would like. Including a 36-yard end-around pass from receiver Jared Atkinson back to Brewer, Baylor hit 27 of 41 passes for 403 yards. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Still, Rhule was not pleased with the number of dropped passes. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

"To me, the story was more about our ability to catch the football," he said. "If we catch the ball just a little bit better, then that's a lot more yards throwing and maybe opens a few more things up." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Mims said it always bothers him when he drops a pass, "but I can't let it affect my game." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

"I I just have to keep going and just go to the next play," he said. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Hurd, who converted from running back to receiver when he transferred to Baylor, said he had one drop Saturday night,"and that' won't happen again, for sure. It happens, you just have to move on from it, but it won't happen again." "according to
https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx
Brewer, getting his sixth consecutive start and splitting series with NC State transfer Jalan McClendon through the first half, engineered a nine-play, 50-yard drive on the Bears' opening series and beat an all-out blitz on third-and-goal with a three-yard TD pass to Hasty out of the backfield. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

after Temple transfer Derrek Thomas intercepted a Cordale Grundy pass over the middle on UTSA's next play from scrimmage, the Bears extended the lead to 10-0 on the first of three field goals by Connor Martin. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx
 
The Roadrunners answered with field goals of 47 and 46 yards by Jared Sackett to tighten things up at 10-6. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Baylor was pinned down at its own 3-yard line when freshman Tyquan Thornton called a fair catch on the ensuing kickoff and dropped it. In the new kickoff rule, a clean fair catch brings it out to the 25, but you have to take it from that point when you drop it.  "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

All the Bears did was drive 97 yards in seven plays, with Brewer getting it started with a 16-yard run out of his own end zone. A big hitter to Mims nearly went for a touchdown as the receiver tip-toed down the left sideline, but it was brought back by a holding penalty down the field by fellow receiver Chris Platt. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Four plays later, Mims hauled in a 22-yard TD pass from Brewer over the single coverage of cornerback Avery Jackson for a 17-6 lead. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

"He had a one-on-one right there, and I just kind of threw it up, on his back shoulder, and let him go get it," Brewer said. 
ims called it a "beautiful pass." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

"When I turned around, I wasn't really expecting it," he said. "But it was there, so I had to go make the play." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

trying to "go for the jugular" at that point, the Bears caught UTSA sleeping with an onside kick that Jalen Pitre recovered near midfield. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

"I told our guys going into this game that we were going to empty everything we had," Rhule said. "We did (the onside kick) because we thought it was there. . . . I told the defense,'Hey, we're going surprise onside. And if we don't get it, I expect you guys to be excited to go play.''' "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

In the very next play, Atkinson took an end-around handoff from running back Trestan Ebner, rolled to his right and found Brewer wide open for a 36-yard pass down to the Roadrunners' 15. In last year's 38-9 blowout of Kansas on the road, Atkinson tossed a 20-yarder to Brewer. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

"That's just something we kind of always have in," Rhule said. "UTSA was in man-to-man. And when you're in man-to-man, the only guy you don't have a man for is the quarterbacks. It's just of a play we sort of knew we had there." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

The Bears had to settle for a 32-yard field goal by Martin, extending the lead to 20-6. And they had a chance to put some more points on the board in the last minute, but UTSA came up with a big sack and fumble by McClendon that led to a touchdown with just nine seconds left in the half. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

McClendon was trying to hit Mims down the right sideline, "but you can't get mad at him," he said. "It was definitely a touchdown (if he could have got it out there)." All of a sudden, it was back to a one-score game, 20-13. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Keeping the team on the field for a few minutes before going into a shared locker room, Rhule told them, "Boy, aren't we lucky that this happened to us?" "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

"It was just an opportunity to find out if we could battle back from adversity," he said. "When you play a team that's tough and has moxie like (UTSA), it's not about panicking, it's not about getting complacent, it's about playing. I told them at the half, I'd probably normally take a knee. We thought we had a shot down the sideline to Mims, and we did. We sack-fumbled, and they went out there and scored, and I'm just proud of our guys to not quit, to not complain, to keep playing." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

What the Bears did was just go out and dominate the third quarter with two long offensive series, going up 27-13 when Brewer avoided a sack, scrambled to his left and found Hurd near the front pylon for a seven-yard TD pass. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

"It's funny, because we practiced that exact same play, I think it was after just a long day of camp," Hurd said. "We just kind of did that little scramble drill in the end zone, where he throws it low and outside. It was like late one night, at around 10 o'clock. It's funny how it just shows up in a game like that. He put it exactly how we practiced it and what did in the indoor that one night." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Baylor answered a fourth-quarter touchdown by UTSA with another Martin field goal and a one-yard TD plunge by Hasty to put it away. "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

"There's a lot of things that we missed on tonight," said Brewer, who took all of the second-half snaps. "There's a lot of opportunities where we could have made some big plays. We were close to doing it, and shot ourselves in the foot a little bit. We have to get that corrected this week." "according to https://baylorbears.com/news/2018/9/8/brewer-throws-for-3-tds-in-footballs-37-20-win-at-utsa.aspx

Kick-Off is set for 3:30pm from McLane Stadium. The game will be televised on FS1. "according to http://www.goduke.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4200&SPID=1843&SPSID=22666&q_season=2018&conf_school_id=