Soon enough, we headed down to Waco, keeping up with Iowa State-Texas and Iowa-Minnesota on a variety of electronic devices. I remember watching OU-Kansas in 2014, the game in which Samaje Perine broke the NCAA single-game rushing record, while riding to Waco for the OSU-Baylor game.

Saturday morning, I slept in a little, got some work completed and eventually started watching football. We didn’t have to leave until 3 p.m., so I got to see all of the OSU-Kansas game, plus assorted others.

We got to Waco and I again marveled at the great transition of Baylor football. Just six years ago, the Bears were playing at old Floyd Casey Stadium, which was off campus and void of charm. Now Baylor has a fabulous setting, on the north end of campus on the edge of the river. McLane Stadium was packed for the huge showdown, with great revelry and tailgating beforehand. And Baylor’s tradition of the student body taking the field to form a human tunnel for the Bears is one of college football’s cool traditions.

The McLane Stadium pressbox has all the amenities you could want. Big dining area, with televisions. We sat around and watched the end of the four great games – the two involving the Iowa schools, plus Georgia-Auburn and Kansas State-West Virginia. Then it was time for OU-Baylor.

But there’s a problem with the McLane Stadium pressbox. It’s spacious and quite nice and has all the bells and whistles anyone could want. Except a decent view of the field. We’re in the corner, which is no big deal, and high in relation to the stadium, which is good. The higher the better. But the windows used in the stadium were not designed for people trying to watch a ballgame – large frames, both vertical and horizontal. If you’re sitting on the front row, you can see through the windows just fine. But the televisions, which we use to immediately watch replays and figure out what’s going on, are not really observable from the front row. So most of the writers sit on the second row, and the window frames block the views. The windows open, which means the horizontal frames no longer are an issue. But it was a 50-degree night, and we got cold fast, and we weren’t dressed for outdoor football anyway. In front of us, the windows went up, then came back down. I couldn’t figure out if the more-obstructed view was worth being chilly or not. Thus we spent most of the night leaning over or leaning down or standing up, trying to find a good view of the game.

Another element of the Baylor campus – and a lot of the new pressboxes – is that it’s not separate from the suite areas. Fans come and go in our midst and sometimes come and stay. Which means lots of cheering in the pressbox, which is no-no. I don’t blame Baylor’s media relations staff; they’ve been put in a difficult position by the design of the stadium. It’s like this in Lubbock. It’s hard to blame the fans. They’re just being fans. It’s a construction problem.