No. 11 Baylor stays perfect in 3OT,

FORT WORTH, Texas — No. 11 Baylor needed a 51-yard field goal in the closing minute of regulation just to keep playing. The Bears were then celebrating after the first overtime, thinking the game was over before a replay review gave Texas Christian a touchdown on an incredible leaping catch.

The Bears finally had their 11th consecutive victory and remained undefeated when Grayland Arnold came down with a fourth-down interception in the end zone in the third overtime for a 29-23 win over TCU on Saturday.

“There were a lot of times in that game where a lot of the world probably thought we were going to lose just from the situations we were in,” Arnold said. “Once we got that second chance, we were like, we’ve got another opportunity to play football.”

Charlie Brewer ran for a 3-yard touchdown in the first overtime before throwing TD passes in the next two extra periods to Denzel Mims — a lunging and reaching grab for a 20-yard score on fourth down in the second overtime before a leaping 4-yarder that won it for the Bears (90, 6-0 Big 12, No. 12 CFP).

“I knew it was crunch time and it was time for like grown-man football,” Mims said.

Arnold picked off Max Duggan’s fourth-down pass in the end zone. That came six plays, and a facemask penalty that put the ball at the 1, after Duggan’s scramble and spinning move along the sideline on what was initially ruled a 20-yard touchdown before replay review showed he stepped out at the 3.

“We’re just a tough, hard-nosed, resilient group of guys that goes out there and just competes and plays,” Baylor coach Matt Rhule said. “We’re not perfect, but a lot of teams would have lost that game today.”

After Brewer’s 3-yard TD run to start overtime, the Bears were already celebrating a victory when officials initially ruled that Te’Vailance Hunt came down out of bounds on the fourth-down play.

But the replay showed Hunt came down with his hand inbounds before the rest of his body fell outside the end zone, resulting in a 24-yard touchdown for TCU (4-5, 2-4).

Just to get to overtime, Baylor needed John Mayers’ 51-yard field goal with 36 seconds left in regulation that barely cleared the crossbar to tie the game at 9.

Ron Jenkins The Associated Press Baylor receiver Denzel Mims catches what turned out to be the winning touchdown in the third overtime against TCU on Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas. The Bears stayed in the Big 12 and national title pictures with a 29-23 victory.