Washington is going to score on us, probably plenty. Our safeties are pretty pretty bad. That is by far our largest team weakness.
I'm hopeful that, unencumbered by B12 officiating, our powerful d-line pass rush will be effective in hurrying Penix and limiting his downfield capability.
On the flipside, I'm not overly worried about Washington's defense being able to stop Texas in any significant manner. As long as Sarkisian doesn't get conservative and turtle up, Texas just has so many ways to hurt you. And he only tends to turtle up when he has a comfortable lead, I'm not expecting that to happen until late in the game, if at all.
I feel like Texas should win something like 35-24 or 35-28, maybe 38-31.
But it's no guarantee of course. Texas could end up losing by similar scores.