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Baylor Week: Will Texas play to the standard or to its opponent?

Expect another close game unless Texas starts playing to the standard this week.

The Texas Longhorns take on the Baylor Bears on Saturday. It poses another challenge for the team, albeit the challenge would be of Texas’ own making.

The Longhorns have played substandard football in two of their first three games. And as much as we have made of starting quarterback Quinn Ewers’ improvement, he is still completing just 60.7 percent of his passes this season. The completion rate is better than last season, but not good by any stretch.

Texas receivers are certainly culpable for Ewers’ low completion percentage. The unit has dropped catchable passes and missed on several other catchable footballs. Even so, there’s a marked difference between Ewers against Alabama and how he plays against lesser opponents.

The focus hasn’t been there for both Ewers and his receivers this season, and the lackadaisical nature of the passing game has led to unimpressive results. Texas might be 3-0 now, but it won’t be for long if the passing game continues to be inefficient.

On the flip side, a focused effort this week could lead to a strong performance against Baylor this weekend. Texas needs to play to a championship-level standard it wants championship results. If it does, the Longhorns should beat the Bears comfortably on Saturday.

Black Friday: Five reasons Texas should defeat Baylor

Texas can finish 8-4 and push for a Big 12 title spot.

It’s a tough week to be a Baylor Bear. In recent weeks, the team has seen their conference title hopes disintegrate with consecutive home losses.

The week doesn’t get any easier for Baylor. They will now face a Texas team coming off its best performance of the season.

Texas didn’t get much from the passing game, but it didn’t matter much. The Longhorns ran for 427 yards against Kansas last week, led by Bijan Robinson’s 243-yard game. Jonathon Brooks broke 100 yards as well.

This year’s Baylor team will present new challenges for Texas as Blake Shapen has raised their offensive ceiling. Nevertheless, Steve Sarkisian should have a sizable talent advantage given what the Bears lost to the 2022 NFL Draft.

Here are five reasons Texas should beat Baylor on Friday.

Four bold predictions for Texas’ game against Baylor

Time to be BOLD as the fate of the season is hanging in the balance.

The fate of Texas’ season is hanging in the balance, as any hope of reaching the Big 12 championship either will continue or end after Saturday’s game against Baylor.

After dropping two consecutive games to the Oklahoma schools, the Longhorns are fifth in the conference standings, and badly need to pull off a win against Baylor in order to help themselves stay in contention. Texas does not really have a clear path to the Big 12 Championship, as they need to win out, and also rely on a couple other teams to lose in order to shake the conference up.

Iowa State helped them out last week by beating Oklahoma State, but if Texas does not beat Baylor this week, that win does nothing for them.

The Longhorns do not match up well with Baylor, as the Bears are home to the No. 9 rushing offense in the nation averaging 240 yards rushing per game, while Texas has been giving up a horrendous 200 rushing yards per game. The Longhorns gave up at least 200 yards rushing in all of their losses this season. In their four wins, Texas has not allowed an offense to rush for 200 yards.

If Texas cannot take advantage of the two weeks to prepare for Baylor’s outside zone running game, they will quickly find themselves with three straight losses and out of contention for the Big 12 title.

It will take a huge performance from the defense, and also Texas’ offense who looked abysmal in the loss to Oklahoma State. If Texas needed anything from Casey Thompson these past couple weeks, it was for him to get back to full strength, because what we saw against Oklahoma State looked like a completely different player that lacked confidence and accuracy.

Taking everything into consideration, it is time for my weekly bold predictions for Texas’ matchup against Baylor.

Texas vs. Baylor: Who the experts are picking to win

“Texas is 4-0 when allowing offenses to run for fewer than 200 yards, and it’s 0-3 when allowing 200 or more.”

Texas will travel to Waco to face No. 16 Baylor in Week 9. Continue reading “Texas vs. Baylor: Who the experts are picking to win”