Saturday Morning Preview - Baylor v. Texas Tech

Where to start. . .

The LAJ has a Tale of the Tape, which continues to be uninteresting. However, Don Williams writes another nice article about secondary coach Brian Mitchell and how he got to Tech.

In the DMN preivew, Tim McMahon picks Tech to win today and thinks that the biggest matchup is Szymanski v. the Tech secondary.


Tim Griffin of the EN believes that Tech will win 34 to 17.

Finally, the FWST has a generic preview of today's game.

As for me, I think that so long as Tech cleans up some of the things that bothered them last week then Tech shouldn't have a problem with securing a victory. Most notably, no big passing plays.

• Tech needs to keep the Baylor WR's in front of them for the entire game. There's no reason to allow anyone to get deep.
  
• Continue to get pressure and make plays from the defensive front. This is a redshirt freshman QB learning a complicated system. We know how difficult that can be.
• Do not allow the offense to step off the pedal.
  
• Run the ball. The more time we can keep the Baylor offense off of the field, the better position Tech is in to win this game.
• Turnovers. To make this an easy game, we need 3 turnovers.
• Have fun. Have fun. Have fun.

This shouldn't be a difficult game. It's my hope that Tech does not play down to it's competition and really takes control of this game. There can be no letdowns from last week. Last week was over.

Baylor 20, Texas Tech 42.