Iowa State found itself on the wrong side of history after Saturday’s 23-13 defeat at the hands of the Baylor Bears.

Baylor came into Jack Trice Stadium 0-37 in conference road games in the 10-year history of the Big 12 conference.

The Bears had also lost their last road game in the Southwest Conference, running their conference road losing streak to 38 overall – until Saturday.

“It’s another gorilla off our back,” said Baylor coach Guy Morriss.

Both teams came off heartbreaking overtime road losses last week, with Baylor falling 16-13 at Texas A&M and Iowa State losing 27-20 in double-overtime to Nebraska.

It was Baylor, though, that was able to bounce back faster and win the game Saturday.

“I said all week that the team that was able to bounce back the quickest would win this football game,” Morriss said. “I don’t feel like we came out with the same emotion as last week, but somewhere along the way, we picked it up.”

During halftime the Baylor players said Morriss’ speech really picked them up in the locker room, where they trailed the Cyclones 13-10.

“I didn’t think it was go in there and yell and scream at them,” Morriss said. “I just said I thought that [the second half] will be the most pivotal half of football we may play the rest of the season. I guess they listened.”

After the game, while the Bears celebrated their first win on the road in conference play, Iowa State was left mourning missed opportunities.

“We didn’t make enough plays, but we had enough opportunities to,” said ISU coach Dan McCarney. “It’s real hard to win games when we turned the ball over as much as we did.”

Iowa State turned the ball over three times in the game, including one as running back Greg Coleman was preparing to cross the goal line.

The Cyclones were leading 13-10 in the third quarter when Coleman fumbled the ball at the 1-yard line into the endzone where it was recovered by Baylor safety Maurice Lane.

“Somebody hit [the ball] and it flew out,” Lane said. “I just dove on it.

“It was a huge play. They had the momentum and our offense was struggling. That play gave us some confidence.”

The ISU defense, which kept the Cyclones in the game all day, came up with another stop and forced the Bears to punt from their own 33-yard line.

But the reigning Ray Guy award winner, Daniel Sepulveda, uncorked a 68-yard punt, pinning the Cyclones at their own 1-yard line, swinging the momentum in arguably the most significant series of the game.

“It was a huge turn of events because we had a chance to go up by 10 and [Sepulveda] pinned us inside the one,” McCarney said. “He showed why he won the Ray Guy Award last year.”

But the biggest turnover of the game came with 6:23 left in the fourth quarter, when the Bears forced another ISU fumble as the Cyclones were driving deep in their own territory.

Baylor linebacker Tyler Lindstrom forced R.J. Sumrall to fumble at the Baylor 19-yard line. The fumble was recovered by Josh Bell.

“As soon as I looked at [Bret] Meyer and where his eyes were, he was just staring down that receiver,” Lindstrom said. “He threw it a little high and since I hadn’t played so well the rest of the game I figured it was time I should do something to help my team.”

The fumble led to a 12-play, 81-yard touchdown drive by the Bears that took 5:01 off the clock and gave Baylor a 23-13 lead that would be the final advantage.