Texas schedule/Big XII teams ranked by ESPN's efficiency metric this season (unlike SP+, FPI, and others, this only takes data from this season). Teams left on the regular season schedule are bolded
3) Oklahoma
'8) Texas
13) Alabama
20) Kansas State
34) Kansas
37) West Virginia
39) Texas Tech
40) Iowa State
43) UCF
47) TCU
53) BYU
59) Wyoming
64) Oklahoma State
68) Cincinnati
85) Houston
95) Rice
120) Baylor
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Houston's defense ranks #113. The Texas offense's ability to move the ball and finish in the redzone should mostly only be limited to whether or not it shoots itself in the foot. Play a clean game offensively and this should be elementary.
BYU's offense is bad, and barring a turnover disaster type of game, they shouldn't be able to score enough points to beat Texas at home. A typical game here should be something like 34-10 Texas.
Will Howard's running ability has been limited for most of the season, and since he's not a great passer, it's really limited their offense. This weekend KSU replaced Howard with a backup true freshman early in the game, and the offense took off. I'm happy that KSU will put two more weeks of tape of that guy on film before we play them
TCU suddenly looked more dangerous this weekend after Max Duggan Josh Hoover replaced Chandler Morris, and threw for 439 yards against a decent BYU defense. He did throw two INTs. They limited BYU to 3.7 yards per play. A very impressive win, we'll see if that was a high water mark or if they're turning into a dangerous team. This will be a road game.
Iowa State is now 3-1 in conference (wins against OK St, TCU, Cincy) despite losing a bunch of players to the sports gambling crack down. Their loss was a 30 pointer that was much closer for most of the game, before OU piled on at the end. They've had a surprisingly solidly efficient offense, seemingly due to their QB Rocco Becht, who's a gamer type. This will be a second road game in two weeks, in Iowa in November.
Tech had to play their third string QB after halftime, a true freshman, and he was ineffective. It'll be interesting to see how serious the Morton injury is.