Early 2026 Baylor Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Bud Elliott sits down with Garrett Ross of Baylor Bears 247 to preview Baylor's 2026 season.
They discuss the pressure facing Dave Aranda as he enters a pivotal season in Waco, the arrival of quarterback DJ Lagway, and whether the Bears can find a path to bowl eligibility despite mounting expectations. Plus, a look at Baylor's key position groups, defensive outlook, and what success would look like in 2026.
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(0:00) Dave Aranda Hot Seat
(1:17) DJ Lagway
(3:15) Wide Receivers
(4:49) Offensive Line
(5:46) Running Backs
(7:00) Offensive Breakouts
(8:05) 2026 Defense
(10:30) Defensive Line
(11:29) Linebackers
(12:19) Secondary
(13:30) Schedule Breakdown
(15:50) Money
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| 0:00.0 | Indiana can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's going to be fighting for six wins anymore. |
| 0:07.3 | Malachi Tony, is he going to be ready? |
| 0:09.3 | Dante Moore, he showed improvement, better command. |
| 0:18.3 | What's going on, y'all? |
| 0:19.3 | I'm buddy. |
| 0:19.8 | All by myself here. And that means it's summer school on the cover three podcast network. |
| 0:23.8 | That's my man, Garrett Ross, of Bears Illustrated. We were talking a little Baylor today. So let's go ahead and do this thing. Garrett, welcome to the show, man. Hey, bud. Thanks for having me on, bro. Yeah, man, for sure. I was excited to do this one. So obviously, they retain Dave Randa off a kind of a rocky season last year, you know, |
| 0:40.6 | get the whole vote of confidence thing. |
| 0:42.2 | I guess we'll just off the jump. |
| 0:44.2 | I don't know, like how hot the hot seat talk is or whatever, but certainly kind of a need |
| 0:49.4 | to show something here, I would assume here, right? |
| 0:51.5 | Yeah, I think really honestly, dude, like everybody knows coming into this season that if the scandal wouldn't have happened with Mac Roads last |
| 0:58.5 | season, the AD, and they had to get rid of him or part ways, however you want to put that, |
| 1:03.5 | Dave Rana would have been fired. So there's, everybody knows this is essentially borrowed time |
| 1:08.5 | that he's on coming into this season. |
| 1:15.2 | And there's really not much expectations for the season, honestly. |
| 1:16.3 | Gotcha. |
| 1:19.9 | I guess if you're going to take a swing to save your job, |
| 1:21.6 | we'll jump in this on the offense. |
| 1:25.2 | I think Lagway is the right kind of swing to take, right? |
| 1:44.6 | Like, I mean, because the potential, if he could stay healthy and kind of get it back together, the guy that we saw against Old Miss in 2024, right? Some of those were not a lot of guys in college football making those throws. You know, has he, has he been okay there? Like, I know they retained Jake Spavittal. Like, how is he fitting into this Baylor offense? I would say he's integrated well with it. |
| 1:47.6 | It's not much different than things that he saw at Florida. |
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