Baylor's undefeated football team (pictured) has lit up scoreboards this season with numbers that are incomprehensible by football standards: 69 points, 70 points twice, 73 points and, on Saturday, 71 points against Iowa State. These scoring explosions are so absurd that they can't be compared with other football numbers. They are basically basketball statistics.

As it turns out, though, football teams regularly outscore their men's basketball teams against a common opponent in the same school year: It has happened 183 times...