CNHI: TCU relishing underdog role

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CNHI: TCU relishing underdog role

by Eric Prisbell | CNHI Sports

FORT WORTH -- Once the perception of the Big 12 received a boost with Oklahoma’s victory at Ohio State on Sept. 9, a narrative emerged about the league’s path to the College Football Playoff revolving entirely around football in one state: Oklahoma.

As the thinking went, the two quarterbacks -- the Sooners’ Baker Mayfield and Oklahoma State’s Mason Rudolph -- would continue to amass video game-like statistics, torching the rest of the Big 12. The Sooners and Cowboys would battle in Bedlam, one of the national games of the year. A presumed rematch in the Big 12 title game could serve as a virtual CFP play-in game for one or even both.

There’s countless ways to upend this script, of course, but one team is particularly well-positioned to do so. And few relish this typecasting as the perennial underdog more than TCU.

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