This is when the fifth-ranked Baylor Bears - and everybody else - find out if they are for real. For all their ridiculous offensive numbers, their highest ranking in 60 years and reaching November as the Big 12's only undefeated team, coach Art Briles and the Bears (7-0, 4-0 Big 12) feel as if their season is really just getting started. Up next for Baylor is its first ranked opponent this season, at home Thursday night against No. 12 Oklahoma (7-1, 4-1). I think everybody's going to embrace that.'' Arguably the most anticipated game in Baylor history starts a five-week span when the Bears also play 25th-ranked Texas Tech, at No. 15 Oklahoma State and then later their regular-season finale against Texas, the only other team that hasn't lost a Big 12 game.

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