WACO, Texas -- DJ Lagway threw for a pair of scores, rushed for another, and ran for 119 yards, helping fuel a furious rushing attack in a 42-31 win over Iowa State, during Homecoming at McLane Stadium on Saturday.

Baylor (6-3, 4-2 Big 12 Conference) won its sixth game in the last eight tries and reached bowl eligibility for the 13th time in the last 17 seasons. The Bears rallied from down 17-7 late in the second half to score 28 unanswered and break the game open with a 35-17 lead in the middle of the third quarter.

BU fought off a pair of ISU touchdowns in the fourth quarter, sandwiched around a 54-yard Baylor scoring drive, to finish off the Cyclones, 42-31.

Baylor got another sterling performance from Lagway, the junior out of Willis, Texas, who threw for 229 yards on 16-of-28 passing, with two TDs, while setting career highs with 13 rushes for 119 yards, adding a score. He also nearly scored a second TD in the second quarter while reaching for the goal line but the ball popped out and was recovered by center Koltin Sieracki.

Lagway found Tony Livingston and Taz Williams Jr. for TDs, with Livingston now owning four TDs on the year, ranking sixth in BU single-season history among tight ends and eighth in career annals. Williams hauled in his first career TD, a 62-yard catch and run.

The Bears again got a strong outing from fifth-year WR Gavin Freeman, who had a team-high six catches for 60 yards, marking his ninth straight game leading BU in catches. Livingston, who had a highlight reel 24-yard TD, finished with three grabs for 49 yards. Louis Brown IV added a pair of catches for 17 yards and Dre'lon Miller had a 32-yard reception.

On the ground, the Bears rolled to a 194 yards rushing, led by Lagway, Baylor's first 100+ yard rusher in 2026. Freshman Ryelan Morris had a pair of TDs, his first multi-score game, carrying it nine times for 50 yards. Caden Knighten had seven totes for 26 yards.

Defensively, the Bears, a top-three team in the nation in sacks and tackles for a loss, had three sacks and nine TFLs. It brings the Bears to 37 sacks on the year, the fourth-most in single-season history and nine shy of the program mark.

Sacks came from Travion Barnes, Devin Turner, Zavion Hardy and Garrick Ponder. Hardy had a career-high 1.5 TFLs, with Micah Gifford, Hosea Wheeler, Kameron Washington and Jae'Lin Battle each charting full TFLs. Gifford led the defense with nine tackles, with Barnes chipping in eight.

Baylor finished with 423 yards of total offense, with 194 on the ground and 229 passing, committing just one penalty for 15 yards. Iowa State accounted for 472 yards, including 256 passing and 216 rushing.

Iowa State (4-5, 2-4 Big 12) was led by another dynamic outing from tailback Aidan Flora, who had 26 carries for 182 yards and a TD. He also threw a pass, completed a two-point conversion throw and had a team-high four catches for 20 yards. Cameron Pettaway had a 50-yard TD catch, one of two Clones to haul in scores. Jaylen Raynor threw for 256 yards on 22-of-37 passing and rushed 12 times for 23 yards.

Baylor returns to action on Saturday, traveling to face No. 7/8/9 BYU (7-2, 4-2 Big 12) in Provo. Game time will be announced following games on Nov. 7.

Iowa State opened the scoring with an eight-play, 91-yard drive, scoring on a 40-yard TD run from Aiden Flora, taking a 7-0 lead with 6:31 left.

The Clones pushed the lead to 10-0 with 3:22 left in the first on the leg of a 57-yard field goal from Kyle Konrardy, completing a six-play, 29-yard drive.

The Bears got on the board with 7:41 left in the second, as Lagway found Livingston for a 19-yard TD grab to complete a two-play, 48-yard drive that opened after a muffed ISU punt.

The ISU lead grew to 17-7 after a 50-yard TD pass from Raynor to Pettaway with 6:13 left in the second.

The Bears answered back with a 75-yard drive on five plays, with Lagway rumbling from 54 yards out for his second rushing score of the year.

After a stop on ISU's the next ISU drive, the Bears marched 78 yards on eight plays, to take a 21-17 lead into the half. The play saw Lagway rush it in from five yards out and the play was ruled a fumble, with Koltin Sieracki recovering it in the end zone. Sieracki is the first offensive lineman to record a TD since Mike Miller vs. Texas State in 2004.

At the break, the Bears led 21-17, with ISU owning a 284-242 lead in yards, including a 142-127 margin in rushing yards.

After the teams traded stops to open the second stanza, the Bears pushed the lead to 28-17 with 10:16 left in the third with a 62-yard scoring strike from Lagway to Williams. It completed a two-play, 62-yard drive. It was the first TD of the career for Williams.

The lead grew to 35-17 after a 33-yard rushing TD from Morris with 5:56 left in the third. The drive went six plays and covered 60 yards with the freshman finding the end zone for the second time in his career.

The Clones answered with a Raynor TD pass to Vince Benetti from nine yards out to cut the lead to 35-23 with 14:56 left in the fourth, which also featured a BU stop on the attempted two-point conversion.

An 11-yard TD rush from Morris, his second of the day, pushed the led to 42-23 with 4:11 left in regulation. It capped a seven-play, 54-yard drive.

Iowa State went 75 yards on 11 plays and scored on a Raynor three-yard rush with 1:45 left, converting the first two-point conversion allowed by the Bears in six tries in 2026 with a Flora pass to Raynor for the final margin, 42-31.