Now after plenty of close games – seven wins in a row by 10 points or less – TCU is playing for a Big 12 title that would make it the first league team other than Oklahoma to make the four-team playoff.
ARLINGTON, Texas — It has been quite a comeback for third-ranked TCU, one much bigger than that 18-point deficit the Horned Frogs erased to beat Kansas State six weeks ago.They have already made a strong case to be in the four-team College Football Playoff
"A majority of our team, we took a lot of Ls last year,” running back Kendre Miller said. “We’re just proving to ourselves really that this is who we could be. … I feel like it shocked lot of people, like even people on our team, that we were going to do this good, me included.” “A chance to win that is obviously a big deal, and obviously our players know the implications of all that on the bigger picture as well,” said Dykes, an off-field analyst for Patterson in 2017 before a successful stint as SMU’s coach. “I don’t get a sense that the guys are tight or any of that. ... They’re just excited about the opportunity.”
“We have an opportunity to play one of the best teams in the country. We earned the opportunity to get to this point,” fourth-year Wildcats coach Chris Klieman said. “Never looked ahead and never looked behind.”After K-State dual-threat QB Adrian Martinez got hurt on the opening series at TCU, Will Howard took his first snaps of the season after 10 starts the previous two years.
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