A season that started with dreams of a rare bowl bid has sunk to this - the Bears won't win another game playing like they did in Saturday's 34-7 loss to 14th-ranked Oklahoma State at Floyd Casey Stadium.

"We worked and we got out there and we pretty much rolled over," running back Jay Finley said.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

The outcome really wasn't all that surprising. No, the Cowboys looked as potent as advertised and mighty prepared for next Saturday's Halloween-night showdown with No. 3 Texas. They rolled up 445 yards, their third-highest total this season, and quarterback Zac Robinson set a school record by completing 85 percent of his passes.

But what made Saturday scary for Baylor was it was just another in a string of miserable performances by a team that's struggled since losing star quarterback Robert Griffin midway through non-conference play.

"Across the board," Baylor receiver David Gettis said, "I don't think we played up to what we were supposed to. We didn't make the plays we were supposed to make. That is why the outcome happened the way it happened."

Let's start with the Bears' offense, which has done next to nothing since the start of Big 12 Conference play.

Baylor (3-4, 0-3) didn't get on the board until 7:17 remained, on a 17-yard pass from third-string quarterback Nick Florence to Gettis. And this came after the Bears' only score in last week's loss at Iowa State came with nine seconds left. They haven't scored a meaningful touchdown in 10-plus quarters and have a whopping 24 points in three conference losses.

The Bears only threatened once before that garbage-time score, but Ben Parks' 41-yard field goal in the second quarter was wide left.

rschneider@temple-telegram.com