Crushed, for the second year in a row by unranked BYU, 41-7. Worse, in fact, than last year when they at least put up 20 points. Backup QB Tyrone Swoopes didn’t make any terrible mistakes but he didn’t do anything terribly good, either.
And the Texas defense, well, they gave up 41 points—28 of them in the third quarter. Ranked UCLA will probably walk all over the Longhorns next week. At least they can beat Kansas (the doormat of the Big 12) the following week. Probably. Maybe.
But I doubt if anyone sane will bet on it.
UPDATE: Not that it matters but it’s amusing that new coach Charlie Strong has a tendency to lapse into nonstandard English when he’s under pressure.
“They don’t have nothing to do with the way we played tonight,” Strong said of the two starters and one benchwarmer he suspended for rules violations before the game. Well, he is from Arkansas.
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