Wyoming has one of the strengths that will give Texas problems. Wyoming is flying in with arguably what could be the best secondary in the Mountain West. They gave fits to Txas a year ago when the score was 13-10 at the half. Wyoming will be playing with heavy hearts this week as they lost Ruben Narcisse in a car accident this week. Often times guys come out playing hard in those situations and I think Wyoming will.
The 28 points is just too much for a Texas team that won't be flying up and down the field against this secondary. Texas should be able to run the ball on Wyoming and I believe that is what they will work on, but that should bring their total points scored down far enough. Texas came out flat a week ago and they are not a given here. Wyoming can play a little defense to keep themselves in games. This is a team that lost by just 10 at Air Force lastyear and 12 at Utah and beat Fresno in their bowl game. With no real running game or starting RB to start the year for Texas I expect them to struggle a bit here in the early going. Texas wins, but they don't cover the 4 TD spread.
Lots of new faces in Tennesse, but they are still Tennessee with a solid defense playing in front of their home crowd of 100,000 people. Oregon has talent all over the place, but the one question mark is what I think will help Tenn get the cover and keep this game within striking distance. Oregon will start a young Darron Thomas in his first road start and he has to do it at Tennessee in front of a sold out crowd. This is night and day compared to what he faced a week ago. Tenn will force a couple of turnovers and will be good enough to slow down the running game of Oregon. Why I like this so much is there will be lots of running. Tenn will be throwing a bruising Tauren Poole and David Oku up the middle at the softest part of the Oregon defense the interior line. I expect them to set up a lot of play action passes and success.
