10 takeaways from Week 4 of the college football season

5. Big 12 offenses on fire

Baylor (No. 5) got the Big 12 scoring party going first with a tremendous burst of offensive firepower over Rice.

Thanks to some precision passing by quarterback Seth Russell, who threw six touchdown strikes on just 16 attempts, Baylor scored 21 points in each of its first three quarters. The running game was unstoppable as well, racking up 427 yards and three touchdowns. The Bears earned a huge blowout victory, 70-17, over the Owls, who looked like they weren’t quite awake yet so early in the day.

While the Baylor blowout was wrapping up, Texas Tech and TCU got into a high-scoring slugfest and traded touchdowns from the opening kickoff until the final whistle.

TCU escaped Lubbock, Texas with a narrow 55-52 victory, and the Red Raiders almost pulled off a miracle finish with time expiring.

A thriller at Texas Tech, Texas Tech almost scored on this play, but they came up 10 yards short pic.twitter.com/C2C0k4WHfa

— THE MAIN MANN™ (@JacobMann_1) September 27, 2015

As it was, just 23 seconds earlier Trevone Boykin hit Aaron Green with a miracle play of grand proportions on a pass that was originally intended for receiver Josh Doctson, who had 18 catches on the day.

All told, between the two Big 12 teams there was 1,357 yards and 105 points in this game. Needless to say, offensive production doesn’t seem to be a problem in this conference.

As for defense? Well, that’s a story for another day.