The Baylor–Texas football rivalry is an American

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rivalry between the

Baylor Bears The Baylor Bears are the athletic teams that represent Baylor University. The teams participate in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as one of only three private school members of the Big 12 Conference. Prior t ...

and

Texas Longhorns The Texas Longhorns are the athletic teams representing the University of Texas at Austin. The teams are sometimes referred to as the Horns and take their name from Longhorn cattle that were an important part of the development of Texas, and ...

History

The in-state rivals have played each other 113 times, with the first game between Baylor and Texas being played in 1901. Only

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and

Texas A&M Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of ...

have played Texas more times than Baylor. Both Baylor and Texas were founding members of the

Southwest Conference The Southwest Conference (SWC) was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at various times the conference also included schools from Oklaho ...

and the

Big 12 Conference The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida ...

. Texas leads the all-time series with Baylor 81–28–4. However, starting in 2010 this rivalry intensified as Baylor established themselves as a major contender in the Big 12 with Baylor playing for 4 conference titles and winning 3, including a head-to-head win over Texas to clinch the conference title in 2013, in what is now known as the "Ice Bowl". Losing the Big 12 title to Baylor, 30–10, was

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's last regular season game as the head coach at Texas. With Texas departing the Big 12 to join the

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(SEC) in 2024, the future of the rivalry is uncertain beyond 2023. Since 2010 the series is led by Texas, 8–6.

Game results

References

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History

Game results

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