AUSTIN (AP) — A Southern California-Texas rematch was supposed to be an early-season blockbuster. With both programs struggling, it feels more like a fight for survival, and the pressure is mounting to find a win to keep their seasons from spinning off course.

The No. 22 Trojans (1-1) and Longhorns (1-1) meet Saturday night with both teams facing questions about their quarterbacks and how nervous fans would react to another loss.

There’s little question about the talent in the Trojans’ J.T. Daniels, USC’s first true freshman starting quarterback in a decade. It’s more about how he handles the team in another pressure cooker in front of a loud crowd that will likely approach 100,000.

Daniels won his debut against UNLV but the offense struggled badly and managed just a field goal in a loss last week at Stanford. Now he faces a Texas defense that harassed and hurried Sam Darnold for most of four quarters last season before the Trojans won in double overtime.

“You just keep playing football,” Daniels said. “Just because it hasn’t gone good to that point doesn’t mean it can’t go good at any point. It takes one big play and the whole momentum shifts.”

Count Texas defensive coordinator Todd Orlando among those impressed by what he’s seen of Daniels so far.

“Some of the balls that he throws are better than Sam Darnold did,” Orlando said. “I mean, he throws a ball and it’s got a tail of smoke coming off of it. He’s going to be a special, special player.”

At Texas, the problem has been cleaning up a pattern of mistakes by quarterback Sam Ehlinger — mostly turnovers — that have been costly.

Ehlinger’s turnover issues started against USC last season when he had two, including a fumble in the second overtime that doomed the Longhorns in a 27-24 loss, and it would prove to be a season-long problem.

He worked to clean up the mistakes in the offseason, then threw two fourth-quarter interceptions in a season-opening loss to Maryland. He had a second-half fumble against Tulsa in a game Texas led 21-0 and held on to win 28-21. Ehlinger had a stellar fourth quarter against Tulsa, directing a time-chewing drive to the Longhorns’ final touchdown.

Second-year Texas coach Tom Herman saw a huge victory slip away in overtime in Southern California last season. He’s now 8-7 after 15 games, and Longhorns fans are getting antsy for a big turnaround at a program that hasn’t contended for the Big 12 title since 2013.

DUKE-BAYLOR

WACO (AP) — Duke has had to make a lot of adjustments while getting ready to play Baylor.

Before leaving North Carolina a day early for Texas to get out ahead of Hurricane Florence, and changing their final preparations for Saturday’s game, the Blue Devils were already getting quarterback Quentin Harris ready for his first career start in place of injured Daniel Jones. They also will be without all-ACC cornerback Mark Gilbert, whose season is done because of a hip injury.

The Blue Devils (2-0) arrived in Waco on Thursday morning, two days before the game, and practiced at a local high school.

“That’s highly unusual,” said Duke coach David Cutcliffe, whose team generally travels the day before the game and returns home afterward just like most schools.

Cutcliffe said there is also a contingency plan if the team has to alter its return to Durham in the aftermath of the hurricane. That could include staying in Waco an extra night.

On the field, the Blue Devils will try to improve to 3-0 for the second consecutive season. They haven’t had back-to-back 3-0 starts since 1987-88.

Baylor (2-0) has already doubled its win total from coach Matt Rhule’s first season. The Bears lost their first eight games last year, including a 34-20 loss at Duke in Week 3.

HOUSTON-TEXAS TECH

LUBBOCK (AP) — Houston coach Major Applewhite knows what to expect against Texas Tech after facing the Red Raiders as a player, assistant coach and a head coach over the past two decades.

“They always score points, have a great tempo, and they take the ball away,” said Applewhite, who at Texas was a Big 12 quarterback at the same time as Kliff Kingsbury.

“Defensively, they’re holding you under 400 yards, and they have nine starters returning on defense. They’re a very good football team.”

The Red Raiders (1-1) are coming off a 77-0 win over FCS team Lamar, their highest-scoring game in their six seasons with Kingsbury as coach of his alma mater — or as a record-setting quarterback for the Red Raiders from 1999-2002. It was their first shutout since 2006.

Houston (2-0) is scoring at a nice clip itself in Applewhite’s second season, with 45 points in each game. The Cougars jumped out to a 38-0 lead last week against Pac-12 team Arizona — and their former coach, Kevin Sumlin — on the way to a 45-18 victory.

LOUISIANA-MONROETEXAS A&M

COLLEGE STATION (AP) — Texas A&M doesn’t have a lot of time to worry about its loss to No. 2 Clemson with just one game before the Aggies travel to face top-ranked Alabama.

First, they host Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday with a chance to work on some things before that Sept. 22 trip to Tuscaloosa.

Texas A&M gave the Tigers a scare last week, losing 28-26 in a game that would likely have gone to overtime had Kellen Mond’s 2-point conversion attempt with less than a minute left not been intercepted.

“You have some disappointment and some things you wish you would have done better, but once this film’s over with that’s gone,” coach Jimbo Fisher said. “You can’t worry about it. The past’s in the past. You learn from it. You move on and you get ready to play Louisiana-Monroe.”

The Warhawks, who play in the Sun Belt Conference, enter the game 2-0 after beating Southern Mississippi 21-20 last week.

NORTH TEXAS-ARKANSAS

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Hjalte Froholdt has been through this before.

Like many of his experienced teammates, the senior offensive lineman has been a part of too many late-game losses and disappointments in his four years at Arkansas.

The latest crushing defeat came a week ago at Colorado State, a 3427 loss in which the Razorbacks (1-1) allowed 25 straight points in a second-half collapse that quickly put an end to any honeymoon for first-year coach Chad Morris.

Froholdt hopes to regain whatever good will Morris lost when Arkansas returns home to host a talented North Texas team on Saturday. More than that, he wants to put an end to the late-game frustrations once and for all after they cropped up under former coach Bret Bielema.

“It’s a very disappointing loss, I’m not going to lie,” Froholdt said. “There’s nothing we can do to change what happened at Colorado State. There’s nothing we can do about it now. All we need to do is focus on North Texas.”

The Mean Green (2-0) won nine games a year ago, a jump from just five wins in coach Seth Littrell’s first season in 2016.