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Texas Football: Way-too-early game-by-game predictions for 2020

By Jake Mitchell

HOUSTON, TX - SEPTEMBER 14: Head coach Tom Herman of the Texas Longhorns prepares to lead the team onto the field before the game against the Rice Owls at NRG Stadium on September 14, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)
HOUSTON, TX - SEPTEMBER 14: Head coach Tom Herman of the Texas Longhorns prepares to lead the team onto the field before the game against the Rice Owls at NRG Stadium on September 14, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) /
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WACO, TEXAS – NOVEMBER 16: Charlie Brewer #12 of the Baylor Bears celebrates a touchdown run Xavier Newman-Johnson #55 against the Oklahoma Sooners in the first quarter at McLane Stadium on November 16, 2019 in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
WACO, TEXAS – NOVEMBER 16: Charlie Brewer #12 of the Baylor Bears celebrates a touchdown run Xavier Newman-Johnson #55 against the Oklahoma Sooners in the first quarter at McLane Stadium on November 16, 2019 in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) /

Week eight features Texas’ second run-in with part of the 2019 LSU National Championship team. This time, it’s Bears head coach Dave Aranda, who’ll be making his head-coaching debut in 2020 after serving as the highest-paid assistant in the country during his time in Baton Rouge.

It was a special season in Waco as well. Baylor went 11-3, and those three losses were as good as it gets. Two of the defeats came to playoff-participant Oklahoma, and the last was a Sugar Bowl defeat at the hands of fifth-ranked Georgia.

A lot of that team returns too. There are just seven draft-eligible bears heading for the NFL, and while losing players like Denzel Mims and James Lynch will be tough, much of the 2019 squad is still intact.

Matt Rhule may have jumped to the NFL, but Baylor still has unfinished business. This team lost by a combined ten points in the two losses to Oklahoma a year ago, and it’s a guarantee that they’re aware of that.

Often, after a season in which a team over-performs the way Baylor did in 2019, there is some sort of hangover the following year. This Baylor team will be the exception to that rule.

Prediction: Texas 21, Baylor 24 (7-1, 4-1)

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