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It\u2019s hard to believe, but the upcoming Baylor football season will be the 10th at McLane Stadium. How time flies!<\/p>\n
The epicenter of Bear Country every home football Saturday, McLane Stadium has aged gracefully, if it\u2019s aged at all. It\u2019s still tied with an incoming conference rival (Houston’s TDECU Stadium)\u00a0as the newest Power 5 football stadium<\/a>, and the images surrounding gameday at McLane have only grown better with time: sailgaters on the Brazos, a mass of green and gold fans streaming over the Umphrey Bridge, and the surge of the Baylor Line rushing onto the field.<\/p>\n It’s fun to look back to the days when plans for McLane were unveiled<\/a> in 2011, or when the stadium debuted in 2014<\/a>, and remember how it felt. And whatever the dreams were for the stadium back then, it\u2019s fair to say they\u2019ve been met and exceeded in many ways. Baylor fans have been treated to fantastic finishes<\/a> and fans flooding the field, visiting dignitaries<\/a> and community gatherings<\/a>, and of course, Big 12 champions — twice, in 2014 and again in 2021 (and oh so close in 2019).<\/p>\n What does the next decade hold for McLane? It begins with the excitement of an energized and expanded Big 12 Conference<\/a> and the promise of new rivalries. More than likely, there will be moments that become known in shorthand — like \u201c61-58<\/a>\u201d for the next generation, or some \u201cSailor Bear Magic<\/a>\u201d at Homecoming — and the pursuit of more Big 12 titles. As head coach Dave Aranda\u2019s program leads McLane toward its second decade, there\u2019s also the culture of \u201cperson over player,\u201d pursuing excellence off the field as they deliver it on gameday, making us all proud.<\/p>\n Happy first decade, McLane Stadium! We’ll see you soon — September 2, when the Bears host Texas State to kick off the 2023 season.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, McLane Stadium!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s hard to believe, but the upcoming Baylor football season will be the 10th at McLane Stadium. How time flies! The epicenter of Bear Country every home football Saturday, McLane Stadium has aged gracefully, if it\u2019s aged at all. It\u2019s still tied with an incoming conference rival (Houston’s TDECU Stadium)\u00a0as the newest Power 5 football […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}