1978 Baylor Bears football team

1978 Southwest Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1978 Baylor Bears football team represented the Baylor University in the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Bears finished the season sixth in the Southwest Conference.^[1] Sophomore Mike Singletary established a team record with 232 tackles in 1978, including 34 in a game against the University of Houston.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 16	at Georgia*	Sanford Stadium Athens, Georgia	L 14–16	43,000
September 23	at Kentucky*	Commonwealth Stadium Lexington, Kentucky	L 21–25	57,793	^[2]
September 30	at No. 13 Ohio State*	Ohio Stadium Columbus, Ohio	L 28–34	87,998
October 7	Houston	Baylor Stadium Waco, Texas	L 18–20	35,000
October 14	SMU	Baylor Stadium Waco, Texas	L 21–28	36,500
October 21	at No. 12 Texas A&M	Kyle Field College Station, Texas	W 24–6	55,458
October 28	at TCU	Amon G. Carter Stadium Fort Worth, Texas	W 28–21	16,722
November 4	at Texas Tech	Jones Stadium Lubbock, Texas	L 9–27	48,895
November 11	No. 16 Arkansas	Baylor Stadium Waco, Texas	L 14–27	45,000
November 18	at Rice	Rice Stadium Houston, Texas	L 10–24	13,000
November 25	No. 9 Texas	Baylor Stadium Waco, Texas	W 38–14	31,500
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.^[3]

^ "1978 Baylor Bears Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
^ D.G. FitzMaurice (September 24, 1978). "UK 25, Baylor 21: A Wacky Wildcat Win". Sunday Herald-Leader. pp. C1, C5 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "1979 NFL Draft Listing - Pro-Football-Reference.com". Archived from the original on 2007-12-21.

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1978 Southwest Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 10 Houston $	7	–	1	–	0	9	–	3	–	0
No. 11 Arkansas	6	–	2	–	0	9	–	2	–	1
No. 9 Texas	6	–	2	–	0	9	–	3	–	0
Texas Tech	5	–	3	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
No. 19 Texas A&M	4	–	4	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
SMU	3	–	5	–	0	4	–	6	–	1
Baylor	3	–	5	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Rice	2	–	6	–	0	2	–	9	–	0
TCU	0	–	8	–	0	2	–	9	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll