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I can't stop watching the Peach Bowl

TheFDN

Active Member
I believe - unfortunately - that the 2014 Horned Frogs will turn out to be the one TCU team of my lifetime that truly could have/would have won the national championship. A stupid quarter-and-a-half in Waco kept them from getting that chance.

I love the Frogs, but I am just not sure we're going to pass that way again. What a special team.

I think we win a Natty within the next 3 years. So try to stay alive.
 
I believe - unfortunately - that the 2014 Horned Frogs will turn out to be the one TCU team of my lifetime that truly could have/would have won the national championship. A stupid quarter-and-a-half in Waco kept them from getting that chance.

I love the Frogs, but I am just not sure we're going to pass that way again. What a special team.

A stoopid quaurter and a half + a corrupt and unfair “play off” system
 

2314

Active Member
I watched it probably 100 times throughout 2015, and a few times scattered throughout since. I really don't even need to watch it anymore, I know it too well.
Impressive. And I believe you. I watched every game from last year except the opener (didn't save that boring game) in order on my staycation in July. But never more than 3 each day.
 

TCU2002

Active Member
curious, but prior to the 2014 did you believe that team was capable of what it achieved that season?

This is a fair point. I am 38 years old, so I certainly hope I have at least 40 more TCU football seasons in me.

We could say there are three factors which have to lineup for TCU to win the national championship:

1) Build the right team
2) Go unbeaten, despite the good chance you will be tripped up on either a) injuries, b) naturally chaotic and random nature of college football, or c) tough conference road games
3) Have good fortune with whatever playoff system/format is in place and have the right things happen in other conferences (totally beyond your control) to open the path to selection
4) Actually win those playoff games

The 2014 team clearly had #1, and #2 was so close to being in the bag. #3 was clearly where that team got screwed the most, but the Peach Bowl performance is strong evidence that #4 might well have happened.

The 2015 team proves just how crazy hard this can be. It still, arguably, had #1, but did not check #2 due to injuries. Think of how close that team came to winning in Norman despite the injuries, even after being blown out in Stillwater. Winning in both of those stadiums in the same season is always going to be a tall order, which means that, until the schedule pattern changes, TCU's best championship chances will come in even-numbered years only.

Even though 2017 ascended very high in the rankings, the roster was just flawed enough to give that team a totally different feel than 2014 had.

Only time will tell if things will ever align as well as they seemed to in 2014 again.
 
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