By Kevin FlahertyLonghornDigest.comNovember 1, 2010Allowing big plays defensively. Too many penalties. Bad turnovers. A failure to score touchdowns in the red zone.All of those are problems that have cropped up at some time this season for Texas, and all became a factor in Texas’s 30-22 loss to Baylor on Saturday.Big plays? Well, three scoring plays accounted for nearly half of Baylor’s total yardage. The Bears had a 69-yard touchdown run from Jay Finley and touchdown passes of 59 and 30 yards from Robert Griffin III. Those three plays added up to 158 of the Bears’ 328 total yards and 21 of Baylor’s 30 points.Penalties? The Longhorns committed 11 gaffes for 103 yards. One was an offensive pass interference call on a fourth down that the Longhorns converted. Rather than having a first down from the Baylor 26, the Longhorns were pushed back to the 48 and had to punt.Bad turnovers? Texas had two in the game, and both were devastating. One turnover, a pass off the hands of tight end Greg Smith, led to a Baylor touchdown. The other, a fumble by receiver Marquise Goodwin, ended Texas’s final chance for a tie. Down eight and facing a third-and-19, quarterback Garrett… Read full this story
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