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[QUOTE="raf4488, post: 3103413, member: 585"]
I was thinking about how a good team could get their doors blown off like what happened in College Park last Saturday, and decided to check out some of Art Briles losses at Baylor once he turned around the program. Turns out he had a few losses like ours last week despite winning a lot of games.

2011: Baylor finishes 10-3, 6-2 in the B12, but had back to back losses at #21 TAMU (28-55) and at #3 Oklahoma State (24-59).

2012: Baylor goes 8-5 but loses 21-49 at unranked TCU.

2013: Baylor finishes 11-2, 8-1 outright B12 champs. College Gameday was in Stillwater to watch #3 Baylor lose to #11 OSU 17-49. This was Baylor’s only regular season loss.

2014: Baylor again finishes 11-2, 8-1 B12 (co-champs with TCU). They didn’t get destroyed by anyone this year but did lose to unranked WVU in Morgantown 27-41 while ranked #4.

2015: Briles goes 10-3, 6-3 in his last season at Baylor, but doesn’t lose by more than 10.

Between 2011-2013, Baylor had 4 losses of more than 3 TDs despite going 29-10. All of these losses were on the road.

Does this mean anything? Who knows, but there may be something about the Babers/Briles system that makes even good teams susceptible to the occasional blowout. Maybe this SU team isn’t as good as last year’s team, but I expect a much better effort at home this Saturday and am not writing off a good season just yet.
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