No doubt the Horns have more raw talent up and down their roster than we do. Team speed will be to their advantage as well. They've looked terrible and last week not great in their first two games. Yet, college football is often a game of a teams ceiling and when the light goes on for a talented team, it can change things quickly.
For Texas, it's really their OL and DL that need to play to their talent level. If they do, we could be in for a long day. Charlie Strong is no joke as a coach and his back is against the wall. He's had success defending teams that run similar offenses to ours, he has the horses to get pressure rushing only four players and this will be week two in the Heard experiment.
Playing at home on national TV, Texas is going to be peaked out emotionally to beat us. They are a young team that may find itself on Saturday. In Cal, they are facing a defense that they can outman both in size and speed. Our offense is going to present them with problems but again they have the athletes to pressure Goff without blitzing which is exactly what you have to do to slow us down.
College football is a funny sport in that early performance is quite often not indicative of later performance and especially with the innate turnover of players, teams take big jumps between weeks 1 and 5.
If I'm Dykes, I'm selling the team hard on our being an underdog facing a team that believes they are "better" than us with recruits who believe they are the best of the best. A team that has everything to gain by beating us and who are backed against a wall. I like our confidence but we need to be hungrier than we are confident in this game.
The outcome feels pretty binary to me. Either Texas rises up in a big way and we're in a dog fight to the final whistle OR we get up early and break their fragile psyches, running away with the game. In the latter scenario, it's possible that Texas is simply too young and has too little skill at QB, the OL and DE to match up with us.
For Texas, it's really their OL and DL that need to play to their talent level. If they do, we could be in for a long day. Charlie Strong is no joke as a coach and his back is against the wall. He's had success defending teams that run similar offenses to ours, he has the horses to get pressure rushing only four players and this will be week two in the Heard experiment.
Playing at home on national TV, Texas is going to be peaked out emotionally to beat us. They are a young team that may find itself on Saturday. In Cal, they are facing a defense that they can outman both in size and speed. Our offense is going to present them with problems but again they have the athletes to pressure Goff without blitzing which is exactly what you have to do to slow us down.
College football is a funny sport in that early performance is quite often not indicative of later performance and especially with the innate turnover of players, teams take big jumps between weeks 1 and 5.
If I'm Dykes, I'm selling the team hard on our being an underdog facing a team that believes they are "better" than us with recruits who believe they are the best of the best. A team that has everything to gain by beating us and who are backed against a wall. I like our confidence but we need to be hungrier than we are confident in this game.
The outcome feels pretty binary to me. Either Texas rises up in a big way and we're in a dog fight to the final whistle OR we get up early and break their fragile psyches, running away with the game. In the latter scenario, it's possible that Texas is simply too young and has too little skill at QB, the OL and DE to match up with us.
