Dave Aranda's second season at Baylor has been one of turnarounds. The Bears improved from 2-7 last year to 7-2 this year, but they suffered a setback last week in a 30-28 loss to an emotional TCU team following Gary Patterson's departure.
This week provides the best measuring stick yet for Aranda on how far his Bears have come with Oklahoma coming to town. Winners of 17 straight games, the Sooners have also won eight consecutive road games against ranked conference opponents, one shy of matching the longest such streak in the AP poll era (since 1936).