Bryson Washington ran for three touchdowns and caught another in Baylor’s 49-35 victory over West Virginia today at Milan Puskar Stadium.

Washington ran 18 times for 123 yards, while quarterback Sawyer Robertson completed 26 of 36 passes for 329 yards and three scores.

Today’s victory was Baylor’s first in Morgantown in seven visits here and extended its winning streak to four after a 43-21 loss at Iowa State on Oct. 5.

The Bears (6-4 overall and 4-3 in the Big 12) generated 516 yards of total offense and limited the Mountaineers to one meaningless touchdown after intermission.

“We played really poorly offensively in the second half,” West Virginia coach Neal Brown said.

“The defense played poorly in the first half but gave us some chances in the second half, and we didn’t take advantage of it.”

Baylor, coming off an open week and looking fresh, remains in contention for the Big 12 Championship in Arlington, Texas, and becomes bowl eligible, while West Virginia is knocked out of the title race and drops to 5-5 overall with games remaining against UCF here next Saturday and at Texas Tech to conclude the regular season.

Neither defense provided much resistance in the first half, reminiscent of the West Virginia- Baylor game here in 2012 that the Mountaineers won 70-63.

This afternoon, Baylor scored on five of its six first-half offensive possessions with four of those coming on explosive plays of 22, 43, 40 and 51 yards.

West Virginia, meanwhile, had an extra possession and three of its four first-half scores came on drives of eight plays or longer.

The Mountaineers took the opening kickoff and marched 79 yards in 12 plays, the scoring play coming on Garrett Greene’s 3-yard run.

It took Baylor just 2:24 to match it with Washington’s 22-yard touchdown catch coming out of the backfield.

After forcing a West Virginia punt, Baylor needed four minutes to return to the end zone when Josh Cameron caught a Robertson pass along the far sideline and outran the defense for a 43-yard touchdown.

WVU tied the game at the beginning of the second quarter when Greene found Tray long Ray in the back of the end zone for a 9-yard touchdown.

Baylor aided the touchdown with two third-down penalties, and Bear safety Devyn Bobby saw an interception go through his hands right into Ray’s arms for the touchdown.

Baylor scored the next two touchdowns on explosive plays, a 40-yard Monaray Baldwin touchdown catch, and a Washington 51-yard touchdown run down the middle of the field.

Isaiah Hankins’ conversion kick made the score 28-14, Baylor, with 4:22 left in the second quarter.

On the ensuing kickoff, the Bears gambled and tried on onside kick that went out of bounds, giving the Mountaineers the ball at the Baylor 41.

Greene ran 12 yards to the 29, and two plays later, CJ Donaldson Jr. found open field to the near side of the field and jogged into the end zone from the 23.

Unfortunately, it took just 26 seconds for WVU to score, giving Baylor 1:47 left in the half and all three timeouts remaining.

Baylor used just :52 of it to cover 51 yards, thanks to Jamaal Bell’s 41-yard kickoff return to midfield. Two Robertson short passes preceded a 21-yard hookup to Cameron to the Mountaineer 23.

Three plays later, Washington scooted into the end zone from the 8 for his second rushing touchdown of the half and third of the game.