Kansas interim head coach Clint Bowen shows his frustration on the sideline after a Baylor touchdown during the fourth quarter at McLane Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014 in Waco, Texas.

Waco, Texas ? The juggernaut that is the Baylor offense is good enough to score points and rack up ungodly yardage totals without help.

But those advantages did not prevent the Kansas University football team from acting as gracious Homecoming guests on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon at brand-new McLane Stadium, where the 12th-ranked Bears benefited from several Kansas mistakes, great field position most of the afternoon and routed the Jayhawks, 60-14, in front of 47,574 fans.

The funny thing about KU’s willingness to help the Bears (7-1 overall, 4-1 Big 12) put up points in a hurry was that it really did not matter. Sure, Baylor scored 12 first-half points on three drives that started inside the KU 22 yard line, but the Bears also drove 88 yards for three more points and scored their first touchdown on a 72-yard pass from Bryce Petty to Corey Coleman on their fourth offensive play of the game.

Baylor led 20-7 after one quarter, 39-7 at halftime and 53-7 before the Jayhawks (2-6, 0-5) reached the end zone for a second time.

“The bottom line is they were moving the ball and they were ready to go on offense today,” KU coach Clint Bowen said after the loss.

It wasn’t so much that the Jayhawks seemed lost against Baylor’s attack as much as it was that they were powerless to stop it.

“Nothing surprised us,” senior cornerback JaCorey Shepherd said. “They did what they did and what we had seen on film. It hurts a lot, though. They’re a high-powered offense and you know they’re gonna make plays and they’re gonna make big plays.”

While so much of what Baylor accomplished on Saturday — 669 yards of total offense, 7.6 yards-per-play, points on 11 consecutive possessions after a three-and-out to open the game — was about the Bears’ talent and superior schemes, the Jayhawks continually did all they could to make BU look better and breathe easier.

Here’s a small summary of all of the oh-dear moments that plagued the Jayhawks on Saturday:

• KU had 14 plays go for negative yardage and managed just 16 rushing yards on 27 carries on a day it finished with 304 yards of total offense.

• The Jayhawks entered the game tied for the nation’s lead in fumbles lost, with one, but lost three of five fumbles against the Bears and did not force a turnover.

• On a fourth-and-goal try by the Bears from the one late in the first half, the Jayhawks had just 10 men on the field and Devin Chafin easily bulled his way into the end zone to put Baylor up 36-7 with 3:28 to play in the half. Bowen said the injury to Keon Stowers that knocked him from the game messed with KU’s substitution packages on the play.

• Just four minutes into the second half, Petty hit Corey Coleman with a 49-yard TD pass in which Coleman was both interfered with by Isaiah Johnson before the reception — the contact drew a flag from the officials — and escorted by Johnson into the end zone after it.

• Midway through the third quarter, after getting a fortunate spot by officials on a four-yard scramble by Petty to the end zone, Petty was stripped by KU senior Michael Reynolds on the next play and linebacker Courtney Arnick had two chances to fall on the loose ball. Instead of covering it, Arnick tried twice to pick it up, but to no avail. On the next play, Petty hit Levi Norwood with a 10-yard TD pass to put the Bears up 53-7 with 6:24 to play in the third quarter.

• Finally, with the game long since decided and Baylor leading 60-14, KU return man JaCorey Shepherd fielded a kickoff at the Kansas 3 yard line and allowed his momentum to carry him out of bounds. Despite that gaffe, the KU offense and junior quarterback Michael Cummings (21-of-30 passing for 288 yards and 2 TDs, both to Nick Harwell) actually put together a solid drive. But even that stalled at the 2 yard line, as Cummings’ fourth-down pass to the end zone fell to the turf without being touched.

By the end of this one, several players not even listed on the Bears’ two-deep depth chart were not only playing, but also succeeding against the Jayhawks. That is until Baylor began to kneel and even took an intentional delay of game penalty to keep from adding to its point total while running out the clock.

Bowen remained calm during his postgame meeting with reporters and broke the loss down into the simplest of terms: Baylor is a solid team. The Bears executed their gameplan better than KU did its and the Jayhawks have to find a way to get better.

Still, the mistakes ate at him.

“What gets you down is we knew we were playing a very good football team and we had to come out and match that and we didn’t come out and do the things that you (have to) do,” he said. “We control whether or not we hold onto the ball. We control penalties. We control jumping offsides. We didn’t control the things that we can control to give ourselves a chance.”

Saturday was the fourth game for Kansas under Bowen as its interim head coach and the first that truly went south. Despite that fact, there were no woe-is-me attitudes after the game nor any excuses.

“Every player in our locker room understands where we’re at right now,” Bowen said. “We got beat by a team that played very well today. That doesn’t diminish anything. Our players work extremely hard, they prepared very well and we came here and we got beat. Like I told ’em already, we’re gonna go right back to work (Sunday).”

When they get there, many of them figure to have a much better understanding of not only what it takes to compete and survive in the Big 12, but also what may still be ahead, with nationally-ranked TCU, Oklahoma and Kansas State still ahead on the schedule.

“It was a bad day, I mean, the score, obviously,” said freshman running back Corey Avery, who 92 receiving yards on four receptions. “But we can’t let that faze nothing we do. We just have to continue to work harder. Baylor, they’re one of the top teams in the nation so if we’re gonna compete with a top team, we’ve gotta play at their tempo and outplay their tempo.”