Texas State isn’t overlooking Houston Baptist.
After last season’s 42-34 loss to Incarnate Word during the Bobcats’ second home game of 2021, the maroon and gold are looking to prevent having any sort of deja vu in their second home game of 2022 against the Huskies.
“I think (Houston Baptist plays) extremely hard. You know, that’s the first thing I look at on tape is how hard they play and then you start looking at how sound they play. And they all know what they’re doing. They’re all very qualified, awesome coaches in terms of just the backgrounds of where they come from and how they just compete and put those kids in position to contest everything,” head coach Jake Spavital said. “Defensively, they’re very aggressive. Like this is a very tough challenge for us from the scheme. Just in general, I think their personnel is very athletic — I think they can cover all of us. We’re gonna have to make contested catches, they’re going to do some exotic looks and try to confuse us in the run game and we’re gonna have to play hard and we’re gonna have to execute. What they’ve done is keep people on their toes. That’s from their defense and our offensive perspective.
