DJ Lagway throws 4 TDs as Baylor routs UCF 41-9

Days after Dave Aranda was fired, the Bears piled up more than 450 total yards and collected five sacks while holding the host Knights to 215 yards.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) DJ Lagway threw for 319 yards and four touchdowns to lead Baylor to a 41-9 rout of UCF on Friday night in Joe Klanderman's first game as interim head coach.

Klanderman, Baylor's first-year defensive coordinator, took over this week after Dave Aranda was fired after more than six seasons following the Bears' 25-24 loss to Kansas.

Lagway finished 16-of-25 passing and threw touchdowns of 4 and 21 yards to tight end Tony Livingston, a 77-yard score to receiver Gavin Freeman and a 5 yard toss to tight end Matthew Klopfenstein.

Running back Caden Knighten added a 2-yard rushing score for Baylor (5-3, 3-2 Big 12), which snapped UCF's four-game home win streak.

UCF's Keyone Jenkins was 14-for-21 passing for 82 yards and an interception before leaving with an apparent lower leg injury in the third quarter. Alonza Barnett III, who had been sidelined the past five games with a hamstring injury, replaced Barnett and finished with 133 yards on 8-of-16 passing.

Lagway connected with Freeman - who entered Friday third in the country in receptions per game - over the middle for a score that put Baylor ahead 34-6.

Barnett found receiver Josh Derry for a 67-yard pick up on the next drive - the Knights' best play of the day - but UCF (4-4, 2-3) went backward from 8, and the possession ended with Devin Turner's sack, Baylor's fifth of the game.

UCF kicker Rhett Armstrong made field goals of 35 and 39 yards and added a 57-yarder just before halftime - the longest field goal in school history.

Baylor: Klanderman said this week he hopes to provide a jolt of energy for the Bears after the coaching change. It seems he did. The Bears topped 450 total yards before the end of the third quarter, had 184 yards rushing and ended a two-game skid.

UCF: The Knights' struggled to move the ball all night, failing to pick up a first down until midway through the second quarter and finishing with just 215 total yards, one week after upsetting then-No.2 BYU for the biggest win in program history.

Baylor: Hosts Iowa State next Saturday.

UCF: At Kansas next Saturday.

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