Kudos to Baylor and Houston for figuring this out. After the disappointing news about La Tech, the sadness was compounded by the fact that Baylor already had a scheduled bye week and thus had to wait another week before opening conference play against Kansas.
You don’t want to enter conference play without playing someone else, particularly when you have a new coaching staff that still doesn’t know what they have in their current team. While Kansas is the best (worst) opponent Baylor could’ve hoped for in that scenario, it still isn’t ideal.
As long as it was a FBS opponent, it almost did not matter who Baylor could get scheduled.