Queensland are poised to wrap up victory over South Australia on Tuesday after taking firm control of their Sheffield Shield clash at the Gabba.
The Redbacks were 4-181 at stumps on day three and need 68 more runs to make the Bulls bat again.
Tom Cooper (30) and Alex Ross (23) were the men left at the crease, having combined for a 55-run fourth-wicket stand.
Cooper and Ross, who scored 92 in his first innings, negotiated a tough, rain-interrupted final session to frustrate a Queensland attack that at one stage had a whiff of an innings victory.
"I thought we were (a chance)," Bulls captain Chris Hartley said.
"The wicket's very good for batting, it's probably at its best on day three for batting.
"To expect to just roll through a side is unlikely but our bowling attack has the potential to do that.
"(But) any time you've got half the wickets in the second innings and still got some credit runs there, you're in a very good position.
"We've got to turn up tomorrow and put in a big first hour and if we can do that and get into the wicketkeeper and bowlers early, while our bowlers are fresh, we can put them under a lot of pressure."
When Travis Head (4) was dismissed cheaply for the second time in the match, the Redbacks were 4-126 and looking shaky as the Bulls closed in.
Opener Mark Cosgrove (65) and Callum Ferguson (36) had made an encouraging start for South Australia - only for impressive debutant Billy Stanlake (2-35) to break up their 95-run partnership by luring Cosgrove into chipping one to Travis Renshaw at square leg.
Head's wicket clinched a piece of Queensland cricket history for Hartley, who gloved an edge from the SA captain to overtake Wade Seccombe and claim the state's first class record of 501 catches.
Hartley is now also tied with Seccombe for 519 career dismissals (catches and stumpings).
"It'd be nice to get a couple more tomorrow and finish off this particular game," he said.
There is still plenty of batting to come for SA but the Bulls will fancy their chances of finding a breakthrough in the morning and then cleaning up the tail.
Stanlake has done well in his Shield debut, while veteran James Hopes (2-23) has been the most economical of the Queensland bowlers.
Earlier, after resuming on 5-316 in reply to the Redbacks' 203, Queensland piled on the runs with an 83-run stand between Hopes (57) and Hartley (46).
The Bulls were eventually dismissed for a mammoth 452, with Joe Mennie claiming three wickets.
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