{"id":72,"date":"2007-09-17T08:06:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T14:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/09\/17\/baylor-qb-continues-impressive-aerial-assault\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T08:06:48","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T14:06:48","slug":"baylor-qb-continues-impressive-aerial-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/09\/baylor-qb-continues-impressive-aerial-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor QB continues impressive aerial assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/blake-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Blake Szymanski - football - 2007 action\" align=\"right\" \/>A week after setting school records for passing yards and touchdowns, sophomore quarterback Blake Szymanski nearly broke his own marks Saturday, passing for 411 yards and five touchdowns in <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/recaps\/091607aac.html\">Baylor&#8217;s win over Texas State<\/a>. Thanks to Szymanski and the Bears&#8217; spread offense, Baylor currently ranks <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncf\/sortables?stat=team&amp;sort=passypg&amp;season=2&amp;year=2007&amp;group=80\">eighth in the nation in passing yards per game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just three weeks into his first season as a starter, Szymanski now holds the top two spots in the Baylor recordbooks for passing yards in a game (412 vs. Rice, 411 vs. Texas State) and passing touchdowns in a game (6 vs. Rice, 5 vs. Texas State). No other Baylor quarterback has ever thrown for five touchdowns in a game more than once, and no Bear but Szymanski has ever topped 400 yards passing in a game &#8212; a mark he has now reached in consecutive weeks. His 11 touchdowns this year are already tied for 11th place on the Baylor single-season list.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Szymanski!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after setting school records for passing yards and touchdowns, sophomore quarterback Blake Szymanski nearly broke his own marks Saturday, passing for 411 yards and five touchdowns in Baylor&#8217;s win over Texas State. Thanks to Szymanski and the Bears&#8217; spread offense, Baylor currently ranks eighth in the nation in passing yards per game. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}