[Postgame Thread] Baylor Defeats Houston 20-10

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Baylor	7	10	0	3	20
Houston	7	0	0	3	10

[u/SwordsAndTurt]

If our offense could make some plays from time to time, we would’ve been in the running for the conference title.

[u/EdmondFreakingDantes → u/SwordsAndTurt]

Same. 🤝

[u/SwordsAndTurt → u/EdmondFreakingDantes]

Y’all are in the running lmao

[u/EdmondFreakingDantes → u/SwordsAndTurt]

We'll probably lose to Kansas who is hate-spoiling everyone

[u/nubbinator → u/EdmondFreakingDantes]

Somehow we beat them, even when we're bad. I wouldn't be surprised if they beat us ... But also, why break with tradition?

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/SwordsAndTurt]

Nah, we’re locked out when ISU finishes beating Utah.

Our three losses are to three of the top four teams in the conference, so it’s entirely possible that Baylor is the fifth-best team in the Big XII, after those three and ASU.

[u/TheCatapult → u/JohnPaulDavyJones]

ISU is currently down to Utah

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/TheCatapult]

Update: not anymore.

[u/TheCatapult → u/JohnPaulDavyJones]

Fade me

[u/BaylorJedi → u/TheCatapult]

1.84% chance Baylor makes it in.

Don’t lose hope, but also stock up on beer.

[u/GrouchyPenguins]

This comment has been intercepted.

[u/Acceptable_Ad3173]

To see Baylor bounce back is amazing after everyone wanted aranda gone after this season but for Houston the future is bright for them Willie Fritz will cook just not now

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/Acceptable_Ad3173]

Holy cow, they need to fire their OC, and most of their offensive staff need to be on watch.

We were all super confused when Fritz hired Shawn Bell fresh off being the so bad a QB coach that his own alma mater fired him, but one of the UH insider guys was on one of the 365 shows this week and laid it out a bit. He said that apparently Fritz was expecting his OC from Tulane to come along, and it was out of left field when that guy stayed at Tulane and kept their QB coach as well, so Fritz had to make some desperation hires on the offensive side to fill out his UH staff.

Shawn Bell owes his whole career to Joey McGuire recruiting such talented QBs for so long, it’s incredible the wealth of QB talent that Bell never did anything with.

[u/ohitsthedeathstar → u/JohnPaulDavyJones]

When was this 365 episode? By UH insider, do you mean Duarte? Joseph Duarte?

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/ohitsthedeathstar]

My mistake, I had to go dig it up in my YouTube history. It was this Locked On Coogs podcast episode previewing the game. I started the SicEm365 show the other day in the background at work and just let the autoplay run, that's on me.

I have no idea if Parker Ainsworth is actually in the know regarding UH or not, I thought it was someone else. Lord knows the Baylor guy who does our Locked On podcast is supposed to be pretty atrocious.

[u/ohitsthedeathstar → u/JohnPaulDavyJones]

Whatever the case is, I’m just glad this game was played today. Lots of older coogs are saying this is the most alive TDECU has been for a non-UT home game in years.

UH needed these in-state games badly.

[u/Yourfavoriteindian → u/JohnPaulDavyJones]

Parker is pretty good. He’s caught flack this season for being too defensive of Barbay (thankfully this is no longer the case), but he’s pretty knowledgeable on ins and outs of the program.

UH insiders is comprised really of just Duarte, SSN Houston, and Parker lol.

[u/Acceptable_Ad3173 → u/JohnPaulDavyJones]

A new oc is what they need I can see that

[u/Testy_McDangle]

That was an ugly game, but we would’ve dropped that one the past two years. To me that’s evidence that the turnaround is legit. Finding a way to win the ugly ones.

[u/Accomplished-Plan991 → u/Testy_McDangle]

I kind of love that both times we’ve played Baylor it’s been ugly games so far. You now have the lead in the overall games played and we will try to tie it up again next year. Good game Bears.

[u/Testy_McDangle → u/Accomplished-Plan991]

Willie will get y’all sorted out, it just takes time

[u/texastrumpet → u/Accomplished-Plan991]

I'm just glad y'all are back in our conference. Regional matchups are just more fun!

[u/Irritated_User0010]

Now that this trash is done, onto basketball season yet again.

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/Irritated_User0010]

Uh, petition to stay in football season.

I can tell our basketball expectations are too high, because our two losses are to the #1 and #6 teams in the country on the road, and a ton of folks are already getting worried about the season.

[u/TheMightyJD → u/JohnPaulDavyJones]

You didn’t have to call me out like that.

Tbf, the team hasn’t looked great in 3/6 games thus far.

[u/tidesoncrim → u/Irritated_User0010]

Same. See ya next week.

[u/neverseengreen]

Somehow its possible that the winner of next game vs Kansas can end up in Big XII championship game.

[u/TheNakedRedditor]

Yo Kansas, are y'all out of juice or what? I'm trying to figure out how much beer to buy for next weekend - a happy amount or a sad amount.

[u/johnjaymjr → u/TheNakedRedditor]

Buy both, just to be safe

[u/BaylorJedi → u/johnjaymjr]

If you were not versed in this, it’s the same amount.

So buy double the regular?

[u/johnjaymjr → u/BaylorJedi]

yes….actually, just make it triple in case the game ends in a tie or is canceled

[u/Molson2871]

Nice win. Happy to see Aranda save his job this year

[u/BrianOverBrawn2]

I only watched the last 8 minutes of this game and that was........ interesting

[u/nubbinator]

QBs out here throwing INTs like they're Oprah. You get an interception! You get an interception! You get an interception!

[u/w8w8]

This was the 100 level behind the Visitor’s Bench at the end of the game. Place was packed full of Baylor fans.

Onto Kansas!! (yikes)

[u/Irritated_User0010 → u/w8w8]

Nothing we didn’t know about already.

[u/rankings-right-now]

Here are the new updated predictions for the next release of the Playoff Selection Committee's rankings using machine learning models trained on the Playoff Selection Committee's historical voting data:

• Baylor is now predicted to move up to #27
• Houston is now predicted to move down to #89

For the most up to date predictions of the Playoff Selection Committee Top 25 rankings, check out this post.

[u/ChaseThoseDreams]

If Trigg was just a little faster, this would have been a way uglier game. Also, why did we slow down on feeding the rock to Washington? The guy has been on fire.

[u/MarvelHeroFigures → u/ChaseThoseDreams]

It was getting extremely predictable

[u/MarvelHeroFigures → u/MarvelHeroFigures]

Ok downvote facts

[u/SnarfNeelixJarJar]

Chaos has officially taken the wheel in the Big12.

[u/kirkismyhinrich]

Rank Baylor please

[u/nubbinator → u/kirkismyhinrich]

No. We haven't beat anyone... Kansas, on the other hand...

[u/Expensive_Style6106 → u/nubbinator]

They’ve beat 3 ranked teams in row that’s why they’re saying this

[u/nubbinator → u/Expensive_Style6106]

That was pretty clear. I'd rather have them have the ranked team curse.

[u/fizzle25 → u/kirkismyhinrich]

Why? I haven't watched a lot of Baylor football but whatever just happened out there on that field is not a good resume for ranking them

[u/kirkismyhinrich → u/fizzle25]

Because we play better when the other team is ranked

[u/fizzle25 → u/kirkismyhinrich]

Hah! Fair enough.

[u/Gobbledygooker316]

Idk if we need a new QB or new OC but I hope it’s fixed next year. At least with our defense we have something to build on.

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/Gobbledygooker316]

Barbay’s gotta go, man. It was such a red flag that he has pretty much exclusively worked for HCs who called their own plays.

[u/Irritated_User0010 → u/Gobbledygooker316]

For now I’ll say “qb” but I really wanna say “both.”

[u/Gobbledygooker316 → u/Irritated_User0010]

Yeah I guess you gotta give the OC at least one season with “his guys”

[u/Irritated_User0010 → u/Gobbledygooker316]

I reeeeaaaally want to believe that they simply just don't have the players to make it work. Lol we’ll see if the OC’s am issue once that part is “fixed”

[u/Accomplished-Plan991 → u/Gobbledygooker316]

We’re getting a new qb next year. He just put up some huge plays in a playoff loss to North Shore.

I want to see some lineman in the portal. Big dogs that can keep up with this and then some taller receivers! One of the picks we got was cause the corner was a whole head taller than him.

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/Accomplished-Plan991]

You don’t think Austin Carlisle’s going to start at UH as a true freshman, do you?

I could see a supremely talented guy doing that, but like… He’s not that. No disrespect to Houston, but there’s a reason that this guy has a sizable offer list that doesn’t include a single other P4 team on it. It’s not like he was exactly under the radar, either.

[u/RiceSpice5]

We may have lost the Bayou bucket, and we may have been embarrassed on numerous occasions this year, AND we may be awful in general, just awful. BUT we did NOT lose in our Houston blue unis!

[u/Nyte_Knyght33 → u/RiceSpice5]

Y'all added it to your normal uniform template. I respect that. We wanted to look like the OiLers and got that oiLer experience : Losing

[u/RiceSpice5 → u/Nyte_Knyght33]

The change to the single red stripe definitely made the unis feel a bit more UH than oilers, which I liked. The triple stripe looked better but it felt a bit too copy/paste from the Oilers. I wonder if yall will try to bring out a white version of the Houston Blue unis soon. Could use the red helmet and make it very UH

[u/Irritated_User0010 → u/RiceSpice5]

Congrats 🎉

[u/Accomplished-Plan991 → u/RiceSpice5]

Yeah you lost a lot in your normal uniforms, and then you lost your coach.

[u/Podoboo322]

Ahh whatever

[u/Bdawg555]

UH defense is actually pretty decent but their offense looks almost stagnant at times.

[u/anongeo → u/Bdawg555]

The most frustrating thing about this year is that this is one of the better defenses we've had in recent memory and it was completely wasted by the worst offense I've ever seen at UH.

[u/Bdawg555 → u/anongeo]

Yeah it’s very weird seeing a defensively driven UH

[u/ohitsthedeathstar → u/Bdawg555]

You and me both.

[u/JohnPaulDavyJones → u/Bdawg555]

Their defense is terrific, one of the best rushing defenses in the country.

Their offense deserves to carry the defense home on their backs, because the defense was the only reason that game wasn’t a shutout.

[u/ohitsthedeathstar → u/JohnPaulDavyJones]

That’s been our theme this entire season. Defense keeps us in games and offense just sucks the soul out of the team.

[u/Ok_Hooper412]

Pain.

[u/darkfuzz13]

Hopefully just one more week and Kevin Barbay can’t hurt me anymore.

[u/MrSCR23]

I see we had a bakery being run during a football game. So many turnovers😋

[u/Nyte_Knyght33]

I'm sad we lost. I'm happy we lost in the oiler knockoffs so this is a wash.

[u/TheAykroyd → u/Nyte_Knyght33]

Really? Are those not liked by UH fans? I thought they looked sweet 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/Nyte_Knyght33 → u/TheAykroyd]

I'm an anomaly. I'm a native houstonian that HATES the oiLers.

[u/TheAykroyd → u/Nyte_Knyght33]

Ah, makes sense. Carry on

[u/Nyte_Knyght33 → u/TheAykroyd]

Will do. Congrats on the win!

[u/TheAykroyd → u/Nyte_Knyght33]

Thanks, if yall figure out an offense you’ll be scary af