Podcast: Jairon McVea & The Big 12 Champions

For the first time since 2014, the Baylor Bears are Big 12 Champions. It all came down to a single play; two players racing towards the same pylon with a Big 12 Championship hanging in the balance. Jairon McVea takes a near-perfect angle on the play to stop Dezmon Jackson’s leaping dive towards the end zone mere inches short. Naturally, we have to begin the podcast with this play, and we’re kicking it off with the iconic radio call by John Morris and J.J. Joe.

We’re doing things a little bit differently for this recap, after taking time focusing on the McPlay, McVea himself and some other stuff, we’re walking through this one chronologically. It was such a tale of two halves that we thought…