Texas Football: Five Overreactions from Texas vs San Jose

Texas will lose to USC, big

A game over a decade in the making, Texas faces No. 4 USC on Saturday night and despite a strong showing versus San Jose State, all signs point to an absolute mess on the Longhorns part.

One look at Texas’ social media tells the whole story, the fan base and the team is hype after getting into the win column on Saturday. However, the strength of the team doesn’t seem to be there. As a result of this, I see USC and teams after them just dominating the Texas secondary. At this point, USC is favored by 76 percent according to ESPN, that’s a lot.

Currently, USC starter Sam Darnold has as many touchdowns as he has interceptions and if Texas wants to have a chance at all they will have to exploit that and create turnovers. However, USC has put up 91 points between their first two games. This is an offense full of talent and strength. Look for them to stretch their legs against the Texas defense that just hasn’t figured things out yet.

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The USC defense shut down the Standford offense on Saturday and expect them to do much of the same against UT. Texas may be back to national prominence soon, but I don’t see this being the year. They have way too many questions on both sides of the ball to answer before they can officially be considered “back.”