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Diehards: 2014 TCU team among all-time most underrated in preseason AP poll history
By Dean Straka - Diehards
TCU football showcased one of its most talented teams in program history during the 2014 season.
The Horned Frogs remained in the national title picture right up until the final weekend of the regular season, when they were controversially left out of the inaugural college football playoff despite a 11-1 finish. It remains up for debate what would have happened if TCU was given its shot to win it all.
What’s not up for debate, however, is that hardly anyone expected the Horned Frogs to make any noise that fall entering Week 1 — not after Gary Patterson and co. posted a 4-8 mark in 2013.
As noted by SB Nation’s Jason Kirk, the Horned Frogs’ swing from being unranked in the preseason AP poll (35th in votes) to a ranking of No. 3 in the final poll of the season following the playoff was the greatest start-to-end jump of any team in 2014.
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