In Baylor's defense (choke! choke!) You can't say that UCONN is the UCONN of old. They have gotten better, as has most of the lower tier teams in the NCAA. Baylor has gotten better too, but I don't think they have the mustard to beat us...we will wear them out by the 4th Qtr. The biggest obstacle we have is to not beat ourselves with stupidity and penalties. I am hoping that the coaching staff emphasized what those penalties cost us against VT to the players. We have got to stop doing stupid crap.
Baylor is VT light. They don't have the same RBs VT has, the same OL or DL VT has, or the same WRs that VT has. The only thing they have that is comparable to VT is Griffin/Taylor. If we minimize Griffin like we minimized Taylor, we beat Baylor handily.
Excellent assessment. I'd agree. What NU did with Taylor was actually really impressive. Great plan well executed. Taylor did exploit the defensive breakdown in that last minute --- but generally he was neutralized.
And, like you, I am doubtful that anything outside of the QB that Baylor has even closely resembles what VT had. I'd even go so far as to say that Taylor is at least as good, if not better, than is Griffin.
So... i am not worried about Baylor too much. But.... Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Texas Tech are all worrisome. We could lose all those games as the worse case scenario or perhaps split those games as a best case scenario. I go with the middle road and see us as 1-3 against that foursome and we finish as a 4-loss team.
