SuperSport will start their Group D campaign against Guinea's Horoya AC at Lucas Moripe Stadium tonight (19h00).
Baxter is well aware Mamelodi Sundowns' CAF Champions League triumph in October last year has raised expectations with the South African public.
"I don’t think because one team is successful it brings pressure," says Baxter. "I don’t think it is the right word but you do feel the obligation because once the bar has been raised you feel obligated to do your best to continue with the trend.
"But to feel it as pressure, that is probably the wrong word. We feel it as a driving force that we want very badly to keep the nation's flag flying high. We don’t want to take our jobs for granted. It's sort of pressure but not negative pressure. We don’t feel it as negative pressure but feel it as an obligation. Every South African team going to CAF should feel that," adds Baxer, who will start his second reign in charge of Bafana Bafana at the end of the season.
Meanwhile, Horoya boss Victor Svunka says they are ready for the clash in Atteridgeville.
"Before I have been looking at video of SuperSport on the internet and I saw video of the South African national team. I have an idea of South African football and also watched the Super Cup that Sundowns played against Mazembe. It gave me an idea of how South African teams play. I have something, a little bit of how they play and we are ready for the game," says Svunka.