Baylor reminds me of 2010 Michigan State. They got to 8-0, and ranked #8, but beat WMU, FAU, Northern Colorado, Illinois and Northwestern (with a 4th quarter comebac) for 5 wins. They had one legit win, over Wisconsin at home, but missed OSU on the schedule that year. Beat a 5-0 Michigan team, that was ranked #17, but wound up 7-5. Needed Little Giants to beat Notre Dame, who was #22, but wound up 7-5.
Then Iowa blew their doors off, turned around to beat a bad Purdue team by 4, and then a mediocre Penn State team to finish 11-1, before Alabama blasted them in the Citrus Bowl.
It was a good MSU team, but they missed OSU, survived several close calls, had a couple big early wins turn out to not be so good, and went 1-2 against the good teams they played (with the losses being 37-6 and 49-7)