Baylor 69 - 3 Wofford (Final)

I have nothing to say about this game, which was a blowout from the beginning.  Baylor's record in UCFC games is now 19-18-3, and they will defend the Big Golden Trophy next week at home against Buffalo.  Wofford's UCFC record is now 0-1, and it will probably be awhile before they get another chance.

Baylor 21 - 0 Wofford (2:49 left in 1st Quarter)

OK, unless the Terriers make it close, I'm done with this game.

Baylor 14 - 0 Wofford (7:01 left in 1st Quarter)

Two possessions, two touchdowns.  I don't think we need to spend a lot more time on this game.

Baylor 7 - 0 Wofford (13:32 left in 1st Quarter)

Baylor normally scores about 50 points in UCFC games, and sure enough they have already turned the opening kickoff into a touchdown.  For the record, I am not planning to track all of the many touchdowns Baylor is likely to score in this game.

Baylor 0 - 0 Wofford (14:55 left in 1st Quarter)

Uniform check:

Baylor is wearing dark green helmets with gold BU logo, dark green shirts with gold numerals, and dark green pants.

Wofford has solid gold helmets with no logo, white shirts with black numerals, and gold pants.  It is a very sharp look.

Baylor v. Wofford

Baylor came out of nowhere last year to upset Kansas State, seize the UCFC, and hold it through the end of the season, capping off their year with a thumping victory over UCLA in the Holiday Bowl.  Now, for the first time in about nine months, the Bears will defend the Big Golden Trophy.  Their opponents, the Wofford Terriers, are ranked number 5 in the country in Division I-AA.  Baylor is unranked in Division I-A.  Wofford will be very much aware that another I-AA team -- North Dakota State -- upset Big XII power Kansas State 24-21 just last night.  Can Wofford shock the world and take the Big Golden Trophy back to Spartanburg, South Carolina?  That would be huge for The Citadel, which will host Wofford next Saturday.

Vegas is not expecting an upset -- Baylor is favored by 30 points.  And based on how well Baylor played last year, that would not be a surprising result.

This is the first-ever meeting between Baylor and Wofford.

Wofford

Benjamin Wofford was a Methodist minister who lived from 1780 to 1850 and who spent much of his life in Spartanburg, South Carolina.  He was married twice (his first wife died in 1835), and each of his wives was quite wealthy.  He also seems to have been quite careful in terms of managing his money.  And, as far as I could tell, he had no children.  As a result, he was left with a pretty nice fortune and no one to leave it to.  When he died, his will stated that he had left $100,000 ($2.7 million today) to start a school of "literary, classical, and scientific education in my native district of Spartanburg."  Four years later, Wofford College began.  It remains on the same campus (which was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974) to this day.  According to U.S. News, Wofford ranks 64th on the list of National Liberal Arts Colleges.

Wofford is a very small school, with only 1,588 undergraduates.  Although Wofford has fielded football teams since 1889, they spent most of that time playing other small colleges.  They were an NAIA school until 1988-89, and then they played in Division II of the NCAA until the 1997-98 school year.  Since then, they have been in Division I-AA as a member of the Southern Conference.  The rise of Wofford football coincides with the coaching career of Mike Ayers, who took over the Wofford program in 1988 (its first year in D-II), and who has gone 171-115-1 since then.  The Terriers have finished in the Top 25 of I-AA in nine of the last 13 seasons.  Last year they went 9-4, finished 9th in the country, and lost to eventual national champion North Dakota State in a heartbreaker -- 14-7 on the road -- in the I-AA quarterfinals.  So they were pretty good.

This will be the Terriers' first attempt to win the Unofficial College Football Championship.