1. Baylor is a pretender
Starting the season 7-0 is a great feat for any team, especially a Baylor football program that tallied one win just two seasons ago. And sure, they’re currently ranked in the Top 15 – but the Bears are absolute pretenders.
West Virginia isn’t a good football team. They’ve got a handful of really good players, namely on defense, but they’re also super young, don’t have an offensive line (which means they have no rushing attack), and they don’t have a quarterback. Baylor, a ranked team – at home – in a night game, struggled to beat them.
Baylor turned the ball over three times and scored just two touchdowns, but ultimately won the game. And that’s the goal, to win. But to do it in this fashion? Against this team? The Mountaineers are to be respected, but Baylor should’ve blown them out of Waco early in the first half and didn’t letting them hang around and think they belong. They average almost 40 points per game, but posted just 17 against WVU.
Could the Bears cupcake of a non-conference schedule inflated their status as a good football team? Wins against Stephen F. Austin, UTSA, and Rice are unimpressive regardless of score. They’ve yet to play any of the heavy-hitters in the Big 12, either. They get Oklahoma and Texas in Waco in back-to-back weeks just before Thanksgiving which’ll be the true test. But until they actually beat somebody, Baylor will be considered a pretender in the grand scheme of things, and not a legitimate contender.