LSU vs. Baylor Texas Bowl Showdown: Odds & Insights

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00:00Let's talk Texas Bowl now, LSU and Baylor.

00:07The Bears, eight win football team.

00:09The Bayou Bengals, eight win football team.

00:12Baylor, a three and a half point favorite in the Texas Bowl.

00:16Seems a little bit compelling for an LSU team that is returning a couple of key contributors

00:21on both sides of the football.

00:22Yeah, it does.

00:23That line is very intriguing now.

00:24Sawyer Robertson and Baylor were one of the hottest teams in terms of the Big 12 at the

00:29end of the regular season.

00:31They won six games down the stretch by an average margin of victory of 14.6 points per

00:36game.

00:37Very balanced, rushing for around 170 yards per game, throwing for in the area of about

00:41250 per game.

00:43And again, Sawyer Robertson, 26 touchdowns, seven interceptions.

00:47I had a look just to make sure about the opt-outs.

00:50Mason Taylor opted out.

00:52He's in the NFL draft.

00:53But you have Aaron Anderson there, Kyron Lacy is there, Chris Hilton is there, and Nussmeyer

00:59is there.

01:00That's enough for me.

01:01Look, Dave Aranda did a fantastic job, saved his job.

01:04He was on the hot seat potentially after leading this team to a Big 12 championship and a win

01:09over Ole Miss in the early part of his tenure there.

01:12Regressed a little bit, got back on track this year.

01:15I just don't think they have the athletes to contain LSU from a defensive perspective.

01:20I know potentially LSU's defense is leaky, but again, you want to give Brian Kelly three

01:25and a half points in an underdog situation.

01:28This isn't Alabama.

01:29This isn't, you know, Georgia.

01:31This is Baylor.

01:32I'll take LSU with the points.

01:34I'm not...

01:35I'm just looking around.

01:36Well, I'm not sure Kyron Lacy plays.

01:38They have him listed right now, so I mean, you know, we'll see.

01:41It seems, though, very likely that both Will Campbell and Emory Jones will be out for this

01:46game.

01:47Yes.

01:48Which all of a sudden, if I'm Brian Kelly, I don't know if I want to even play Nussmeyer

01:51in this situation.

01:52It would be a little...

01:53No, he's going to, I think.

01:55To me, LSU, with the offseason that they have had, is very likely to have, let's call it,

02:00top 10 odds to a next year's national championship.

02:03That team will not be out on the field here against Baylor.

02:07We're early in the game.

02:09It's a very telling line, though, for Baylor to be playing like they are.

02:13Again, though, we are expecting to see Garrett Nussmeyer and Caden Durham and Aaron Anderson.

02:18There's a lot of talent for this LSU team, maybe in over 58 and a half, but that is for

02:24the Texas Bulls in Houston on Tuesday afternoon.

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