Baylor -17.5 Kansas
No disrespect to any endomorphs, but the last time Kansas had a winning record was when Mark Mangino was the head coach. Now Charlie Weis was an endomorph also, but he had the band surgery to try to lose weight so in his mind he wanted to not be fat, and they still lost football games. Now their coach is Les Miles and he’s going to bed every night saying, “what the hell was I thinking??”. Kansas was 3-9 last year and 1-8 in the Big 12. They started off this season getting mopped up by FBS pretender Coastal Carolina, down 28-3 at the half. Their starting QB has a 27.6 rating against a defense that won’t be as good as Baylor’s. We still don’t know how good Baylor is yet, since they haven’t played. We already know that Kansas sucks.
Last year, the Baylor Mike Bears were 11-3 and a couple of plays away from beating Oklahoma for the Big 12 championship and making the CFB playoff. Baylor lost their head coach from last year, but went out and hired Dave Aranda who was the Associate Head Coach of the championship LSU team. The guy’s a winner. Baylor’s QB, Charlie Brewer is a straight up stud. All he does is take massive hits, get up and throw touchdowns. Last season he threw for 3,161 yards and 21 touchdowns while completing 64.5 percent of his passes. He also likes to tuck it and run to get first downs. Baylor also has John Lovett coming back at RB, who is looking at a 1000 yard season. Baylor returns 4 out of 5 starters from the O-line. The skill players have mastered their super high tempo offense which Aranda plans to continue. Houston’s defense is their weakness, having given up 34 points per game last year. Baylor is going to score and score and score, stressing the Kansas defense until they capitulate. Last year Baylor beat Kansas 61-6.
Baylor is ready to play. “I think that we’ve got a lot of guys coming back with a lot of experience,” Brewer said. “We’ve got guys on defense like Terrel (Bernard), who’s such a great leader and will get those guys ready. The coaching staff that came in…they’re awesome. They’ve had a lot of success elsewhere so I don’t think it’ll change coming here.”
If you believe that Baylor is still up there with Oklahoma and Texas, then it’s really hard not to like them in this game. Even if Kansas is better than they were last year, (which remains to be seen) it would be hard to like them enough to see them close the gap down from 61-6. Giving up 38 points to Coast Carolina signals to me that Baylor is going to put up at least 48 points. I don’t see Kansas scoring 30 points with the QB play they showed in week 1. Baylor has a non-concussed Charlie Brewer at QB and his arm is well rested. I’ll lay the wood and go with the Bears -17.5.
No disrespect to any endomorphs, but the last time Kansas had a winning record was when Mark Mangino was the head coach. Now Charlie Weis was an endomorph also, but he had the band surgery to try to lose weight so in his mind he wanted to not be fat, and they still lost football games. Now their coach is Les Miles and he’s going to bed every night saying, “what the hell was I thinking??”. Kansas was 3-9 last year and 1-8 in the Big 12. They started off this season getting mopped up by FBS pretender Coastal Carolina, down 28-3 at the half. Their starting QB has a 27.6 rating against a defense that won’t be as good as Baylor’s. We still don’t know how good Baylor is yet, since they haven’t played. We already know that Kansas sucks.
Last year, the Baylor Mike Bears were 11-3 and a couple of plays away from beating Oklahoma for the Big 12 championship and making the CFB playoff. Baylor lost their head coach from last year, but went out and hired Dave Aranda who was the Associate Head Coach of the championship LSU team. The guy’s a winner. Baylor’s QB, Charlie Brewer is a straight up stud. All he does is take massive hits, get up and throw touchdowns. Last season he threw for 3,161 yards and 21 touchdowns while completing 64.5 percent of his passes. He also likes to tuck it and run to get first downs. Baylor also has John Lovett coming back at RB, who is looking at a 1000 yard season. Baylor returns 4 out of 5 starters from the O-line. The skill players have mastered their super high tempo offense which Aranda plans to continue. Houston’s defense is their weakness, having given up 34 points per game last year. Baylor is going to score and score and score, stressing the Kansas defense until they capitulate. Last year Baylor beat Kansas 61-6.
Baylor is ready to play. “I think that we’ve got a lot of guys coming back with a lot of experience,” Brewer said. “We’ve got guys on defense like Terrel (Bernard), who’s such a great leader and will get those guys ready. The coaching staff that came in…they’re awesome. They’ve had a lot of success elsewhere so I don’t think it’ll change coming here.”
If you believe that Baylor is still up there with Oklahoma and Texas, then it’s really hard not to like them in this game. Even if Kansas is better than they were last year, (which remains to be seen) it would be hard to like them enough to see them close the gap down from 61-6. Giving up 38 points to Coast Carolina signals to me that Baylor is going to put up at least 48 points. I don’t see Kansas scoring 30 points with the QB play they showed in week 1. Baylor has a non-concussed Charlie Brewer at QB and his arm is well rested. I’ll lay the wood and go with the Bears -17.5.