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ESPN D/FW: Casey Pachall's stock rising at TCU
By Jeff Caplan
ESPNDallas.com
FORT WORTH, Texas -- TCU Horned Frogs first-year quarterback Casey Pachall has come full circle in 10 wild, and perhaps foretelling, performances.
The young gunslinger that couldn't finish the job against Baylor and SMU is now the tactical surgeon that completed five of seven passes on the final, game-winning drive at hostile Boise State. He outperformed senior Heisman candidate Kellen Moore and buried the national championship dark horse on its own blue turf.
Still, to curry favor with his coach, it apparently will take more than a 473-yard, five-touchdown passing day -- the single-best performance in Gary Patterson's 11 seasons -- in this season's signature victory. It put TCU in the driver's seat for a third consecutive Mountain West Conference title, launched it back into the national polls at No. 19 and bounced Boise from BCS contention while remarkably reinserting the Frogs into the mix. ...
By Jeff Caplan
ESPNDallas.com
FORT WORTH, Texas -- TCU Horned Frogs first-year quarterback Casey Pachall has come full circle in 10 wild, and perhaps foretelling, performances.
The young gunslinger that couldn't finish the job against Baylor and SMU is now the tactical surgeon that completed five of seven passes on the final, game-winning drive at hostile Boise State. He outperformed senior Heisman candidate Kellen Moore and buried the national championship dark horse on its own blue turf.
Still, to curry favor with his coach, it apparently will take more than a 473-yard, five-touchdown passing day -- the single-best performance in Gary Patterson's 11 seasons -- in this season's signature victory. It put TCU in the driver's seat for a third consecutive Mountain West Conference title, launched it back into the national polls at No. 19 and bounced Boise from BCS contention while remarkably reinserting the Frogs into the mix. ...
