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I don’t intend to pick up the egos of these young players for Texas and throw them off the top of a six-storied building, but this team has a lot to do if they want to keep their number four status in the rankings.

They did defeat Rice University 34-17, but lets be honest, Rice is not supposed to be that competitive against Texas.

This isn’t the NFL where every team can beat the other team on any given day. This is college football and there are teams that have players that are going to go to the NFL facing teams with starters who probably lose inner squad games.

For a team that went to the National Championship last year, they are expected to go back and finish the deal. Is it fair? No, but that’s the way of the world.

What needs improvement down in the Lone Star State capital? Well, lets start with the offense.

The big thing that I noticed about the Texas game was their struggle on offense. When the Longhorns had Colt McCoy last year, they routinely cut away at defenses like a surgeon’s scalpel with accurate passes and then bore the viewers by making a running back like Cody Johnson run it in from the goal line.

However, this team has changed dramatically, because Colt McCoy, a 3,521-yard passer, and Jordan Shipley, a 1,485-yard receiver and wonderful return specialist, are now in the NFL, as are defensive standouts Earl Thomas and Sergio Kindle.

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