DALLAS (AP) — Baylor quarterback Sawyer Robertson threw two of his four touchdowns in the final 5 1/2 minutes of regulation and redshirt freshman Connor Hawkins kicked a game-ending 27-yard field goal in the second overtime as the Bears rallied to beat 17th-ranked SMU 48-45 on Saturday.
Robertson was 34-of-50 passing with 440 yards for the Bears (1-1), who have won 14 meetings in a row against their former Southwest Conference rival since 1986. Bryson Washington ran for 115 yards and two scores, including a 2-yard TD in the first overtime.
“It’s a way competitive group. There’s guys that want to win. ... We talk about battle, and hey, you’re in it to win it. You saw that,” Baylor coach Dave Aranda said.
“We can’t get all 14 (points) back right now, so I just said one play at a time,” Robertson said about the deficit midway through the fourth quarter. “In my brain, I was thinking that we’ve got to make something shake and pretty fast. Thankfully we did, and then we had to get the ball back and go do it again. Pretty crazy.”
Collin Rogers was well short on a 57-yard field goal attempt at the end of regulation, then was wide right on a 38-yard try when SMU (1-1) had the ball first in the second overtime period but were held without a first down.
Kevin Jennings threw for 296 yards and three touchdowns, with two 75-yard scores and then a 25-yarder to Romello Brinson on the Mustangs’ first play in overtime. Brinson had one of the 75-yarders on the first play of the game, and Jennings hit freshman Jalen Cooper in stride for the other long score when he got open behind the secondary late in the second quarter.
TJ Harden ran for 115 yards and three touchdowns for SMU, including on back-to-back drives between a Baylor fumble in the fourth quarter to turn a 24-all tie into a 38-24 lead with 8:38 left in regulation. Brinson had four catches for 126 yards.
“For 3 1/2 quarters, we were the better team and then we didn’t finish. You can’t start the job and not finish the job,” SMU coach Rhett Lashlee said. “Obviously in the second overtime we weren’t able to put the ball in the end zone, and then on top of it we missed the field goal. So we kind of it made it easy on them, didn’t make them have any game pressure there.”
Ashtyn Hawkins had 10 catches for 145 yards for Baylor, which had 601 total yards. Josh Cameron (nine catches, 151 yards) and Kobe Prentice (four catches, 63 yards) each scored twice. Cameron had a 48-yard TD with 5:23 left in regulation, and Prentice’s 21-yard catch with 34 seconds left tied the game.
While the schools are only about 100 miles apart, this was only the seventh time they played since the SWC broke up after the 1995 season. It was the first since 2016.
Robertson’s third consecutive 400-yard passing game made him only the fourth Big 12 QB in 15 years to do that. Patrick Mahomes did it for Texas Tech in 2016, five years after Robert Griffin III for Baylor and Brandon Weeden for Oklahoma State. ... Only two other FBS quarterback since 2000 have had at least 850 yards passing with seven touchdowns and no interceptions through the first two games in a season. Both were from Texas Tech: Nic Shimonek in 2017 and Cody Hodges in 2005.
Baylor: After trailing by at least 10 points four times, the Bears took their only lead on the game-ending kick. This was a nice rebound after a season-opening 38-24 loss to Auburn.
SMU: The Mustangs last year made the 12-team College Football Playoff in their ACC debut and first season in a major conference since the SWC, but have lost their last three games against FBS opponents (Clemson in the ACC title game; Penn State in the CFP; and Baylor). The opener this year was a 42-13 win over FCS East Texas A&M, which lost 77-3 at Florida State on Saturday.
Before going undefeated in ACC play last year, SMU lost 18-15 at home to Big 12 team BYU in the third game of the season.
Baylor is home on Saturday to play FCS team Samford.
SMU plays at Missouri State, a first-year FBS team in Conference USA.
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SMU wide receiver Jalen Cooper (10) catches a touchdown pass in front of Baylor defender Carl Williams (5) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that forced him out of office and other allegations.
Yoon was impeached, arrested and dismissed as president after his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024 triggered huge public protests calling for his ouster.
The most significant criminal charge against him alleges that his martial law enforcement amounted to a rebellion, and the independent counsel has requested the death sentence in the case that is to be decided in a ruling next month.
Yoon has maintained he didn’t intend to place the country under military rule for an extended period, saying his decree was only meant to inform the people about the danger of the liberal-controlled parliament obstructing his agenda. But investigators have viewed Yoon’s decree as an attempt to bolster and prolong his rule, charging him with rebellion, abuse of power and other criminal offenses.
In Friday’s case, the Seoul Central District Court sentenced Yoon for defying attempts to detain him, fabricating the martial law proclamation, and sidestepping a legally mandated full Cabinet meeting and thus depriving some Cabinet members who were not convened of their due rights to deliberate on his decree.
Judge Baek Dae-hyun said in the televised ruling that imposing “a grave punishment” was necessary because Yoon hasn’t shown remorse and has only repeated “hard-to-comprehend excuses.” The judge also restoring legal systems damaged by Yoon’s action was necessary.
Yoon’s defense team said they will appeal the ruling, which they believe was “politicized” and reflected “the unliberal arguments by the independent counsel.” Yoon’s defense team argued the ruling “oversimplified the boundary between the exercise of the president’s constitutional powers and criminal liability.”
Prison sentences in the multiple, smaller trials Yoon faces would matter if he is spared the death penalty or life imprisonment at the rebellion trial.
Park SungBae, a lawyer who specializes in criminal law, said there is little chance the court would decide Yoon should face the death penalty in the rebellion case. He said the court will likely issue a life sentence or a sentence of 30 years or more in prison.
South Korea has maintained a de facto moratorium on executions since 1997 and courts rarely hand down death sentences. Park said the court would take into account that Yoon’s decree didn’t cause casualties and didn’t last long, although Yoon hasn’t shown genuine remorse for his action.
South Korea has a history of pardoning former presidents who were jailed over diverse crimes in the name of promoting national unity. Those pardoned include strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who received the death penalty at a district court over his 1979 coup, the bloody 1980 crackdowns of pro-democracy protests that killed about 200 people, and other crimes.
Some observers say Yoon will likely retain a defiant attitude in the ongoing trials to maintain his support base in the belief that he cannot avoid a lengthy sentence but could be pardoned in the future.
On the night of Dec. 3, 2024, Yoon abruptly declared martial law in a televised speech, saying he would eliminate “anti-state forces” and protect “the constitutional democratic order.” Yoon sent troops and police officers to encircle the National Assembly, but many apparently didn’t aggressively cordon off the area, allowing enough lawmakers to get into an assembly hall to vote down Yoon’s decree.
No major violence occurred, but Yoon's stunt caused the biggest political crisis in South Korea and rattled its diplomacy and financial markets. For many, his decree, the first of its kind in more than four decades in South Korea, brought back harrowing memories of past dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s, when military-backed leaders used martial law and emergency measures to deploy soldiers and tanks on the streets to suppress demonstrations.
After Yoon's ouster, his liberal rival Lee Jae Myung became president via a snap election last June. After taking office, Lee appointed three independent counsels to look into allegations involving Yoon, his wife and associates.
Yoon's other trials deal with charges like ordering drone flights over North Korea to deliberately inflame animosities to look for a pretext to declare martial law. Other charges accuse Yoon of manipulating the investigation into a marine’s drowning in 2023 and receiving free opinion surveys from an election broker in return for a political favor.
A supporter of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol shouts slogans outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs and flags outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
A supporter of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol waits for a bus carrying former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs as police officers stand guard outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs and flags outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hold signs outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
A picture of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is placed on a board as supporters gather outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
