we still have a ways to go and i generally agree with the sentiment of your post. people are overreacting to beating a team that lost to texas state at home with a lot of zeal. i always find it pretty incredible how much this board overreacts in both directions to certain outcomes. in a sport that thrives on inconsistency even from very good teams (which is what makes cfb interesting), i have always found that amusing.
but...for the first time in what seems like a long time, texas did not play down (or up) to the opponent. herman and sark are both horrible about that. instead, the horns went out and did what they were supposed to do for the most part. and quinn finally threw a truly accurate deep pass (yay)! despite being put in a shit situation multiple times due to the most boneheaded fucking special teams game since maybe ncstate in 1999 off the top of my head, the defense absolutely obliterated the soul of a team that should have been able to get something going twice.
baylor is seriously horrible...especially the version we faced saturday. i can't believe dave has left them get so poor but that's another discussion. they had absolutely nothing. but, sark has a large body of work implying that texas goes out and has to win a stupid game that's closer than it should be on a couple of big plays to take baylor down 35-27 and instead, they dominated. that was refreshing. and if auburn can hit extra point distance field goals and xavier/jordan don't go full you know what on punt return, that is a 48-3 beatdown of a bad p5 team which has been a while.
we have a lot of "good" teams left on the schedule. teams that can win if texas lets them. ou, kansas, kstate, byu, tcu are all slightly above average teams and a couple of them are arguably top 25 teams. scares you to death but so far, (knock on the biggest fucking wood of all time) we have only suffered one critical injury and have had good luck on that front...and the defensive line is playing at an exceptional, national championship contending level. quinn is getting better, sanders is dominating, cook and mitchell offering the defense something else besides worthy opens up all kinds of shit, linebacker play is best since gary johnson, and the dbs are doing "enough." the other big takeaway from the last two games for me is that i might have to admit that i was overly skeptical about brooks' ability to make a difference. he's been fantastic since the third quarter of the wyoming game.
quinn still missed some subtle stuff (very minor relatively speaking) and special teams should be taken out back and shot but other than that, very little to nothing to complain about which is nice for a change. we disposed of the team that should be fighting houston for worst in the league this year. gets significantly more interesting from here. but at least it's interesting again.