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AP: TCU still stopping Big 12 with Coach P's D

AP Sports Writer

FORT WORTH, TEXAS – TCU junior safety Niko Small remembers the adjustments he had to make, and how much he had to learn, when he was getting used to coach Gary Patterson's 4-2-5 defense.

"It's like going from geometry to calculus," said Small, a good student who also could have gone to Stanford. "It's a big change. It's a lot of moving parts, a lot of moving pieces."

Patterson's defense is a formula that opposing coaches in the Big 12, with all those big-play and fast-paced offenses, have been trying to figure out since the Horned Frogs joined the league in 2012. TCU led the nation in total defense five times before that — still second only to Alabama all-time — and has consistently been among the conference's top defenses.

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