2017 Baylor Bears football team

The 2017 Baylor Bears football team represented Baylor University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bears played their home games at the McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas and competed in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Matt Rhule. They finished the season 1–11 (1–8 in-conference) to finish in ninth place in the Big 12.

Recruits
Baylor signed a total of 27 recruits.

Schedule
Baylor announced its 2017 football schedule on December 13, 2016. The 2017 schedule consists of 6 home, 5 away and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Bears will host Big 12 foes Iowa State, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia, and will travel to Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, and TCU. Baylor will play Texas Tech for the seventh season in a row in Arlington, Texas.

The Bears will host two of the three non-conference opponents, Liberty from the Big South Conference and UTSA from Conference USA and travel to Duke from the Atlantic Coast Conference.


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