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Contender no one saw coming

DelFrog

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Learn the name Sonny Dykes. Google Max Duggan. It’s time to get to know the contender nobody saw coming.

TCU, picked to finish seventh in the Big 12, unranked entering the weekend, coming off a five-win season and with a new head coach, emphatically announced itself as a threat Saturday afternoon.

 

Bob Sugar

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If TCU is the contender nobody saw coming, then what does that make KU?
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CryptoMiner

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ESPN https://www.espn.com/college-footba...l-week-5-highlights-top-plays-games-takeaways

It's time to believe in TCU​

It's just like we've been saying for weeks: It's time the rest of the country started paying attention to the upstart Big 12 team that's opened the season 4-0 and deserves to be ranked.

Oh, no, not Kansas. We're talking about TCU.

After finishing last season 5-7 and firing Gary Patterson, the Horned Frogs were hardly considered contenders in the Big 12 this season, but Sonny Dykes has clearly injected some life into the offense, and Max Duggan has emerged as one of the nation's most productive QBs.

If you weren't a believer before Saturday, the 27 points TCU hung on Oklahoma in the first quarter should've had you convinced. And if you've ever wondered how many big plays are needed before Brent Venables' head explodes, well, this game certainly took a swing at providing an answer.

TCU racked up 668 yards in the 55-24 win, including four plays of 60 yards or more.

Duggan was sublime, throwing for 302 yards and three touchdowns and rushing for 116 yards and two more scores. If the stat line looked familiar for Sooners fans, it should. In the playoff era, the only other Big 12 QB with 300 pass yards, 100 rush yards, three pass TDs and two on the ground in the same game was Oklahoma's Jalen Hurts in 2019. Duggan is just the eighth player in the playoff era from any conference to hit those marks against a Power 5 foe.

So, if Oklahoma can officially be scratched off the list of playoff contenders, is it time to start thinking about TCU as a possible Big 12 champ?

This is the Horned Frogs' first 4-0 start since 2017 and they now have notable wins vs. the Sooners and SMU. They've put up 38 points in each of their first four games and, according to ESPN Stats & Information research, the 55 points vs. Oklahoma marked the most allowed by the Sooners since the 2019 Peach Bowl. That one came against Joe Burrow and LSU. The last time Oklahoma allowed 55 or more against an unranked foe was 2016. That one came against Patrick Mahomes. Yikes.

Still, for all the deserved attention TCU's big win will get, it's worth noting the Horned Frogs couldn't deliver on their mid-game trolling. The family of Roger Maris will now need to attend every TCU game until the Horned Frogs score 62.
 

WhatTheFrog

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ESPN https://www.espn.com/college-footba...l-week-5-highlights-top-plays-games-takeaways

It's time to believe in TCU​

It's just like we've been saying for weeks: It's time the rest of the country started paying attention to the upstart Big 12 team that's opened the season 4-0 and deserves to be ranked.

Oh, no, not Kansas. We're talking about TCU.

After finishing last season 5-7 and firing Gary Patterson, the Horned Frogs were hardly considered contenders in the Big 12 this season, but Sonny Dykes has clearly injected some life into the offense, and Max Duggan has emerged as one of the nation's most productive QBs.

If you weren't a believer before Saturday, the 27 points TCU hung on Oklahoma in the first quarter should've had you convinced. And if you've ever wondered how many big plays are needed before Brent Venables' head explodes, well, this game certainly took a swing at providing an answer.

TCU racked up 668 yards in the 55-24 win, including four plays of 60 yards or more.

Duggan was sublime, throwing for 302 yards and three touchdowns and rushing for 116 yards and two more scores. If the stat line looked familiar for Sooners fans, it should. In the playoff era, the only other Big 12 QB with 300 pass yards, 100 rush yards, three pass TDs and two on the ground in the same game was Oklahoma's Jalen Hurts in 2019. Duggan is just the eighth player in the playoff era from any conference to hit those marks against a Power 5 foe.

So, if Oklahoma can officially be scratched off the list of playoff contenders, is it time to start thinking about TCU as a possible Big 12 champ?

This is the Horned Frogs' first 4-0 start since 2017 and they now have notable wins vs. the Sooners and SMU. They've put up 38 points in each of their first four games and, according to ESPN Stats & Information research, the 55 points vs. Oklahoma marked the most allowed by the Sooners since the 2019 Peach Bowl. That one came against Joe Burrow and LSU. The last time Oklahoma allowed 55 or more against an unranked foe was 2016. That one came against Patrick Mahomes. Yikes.

Still, for all the deserved attention TCU's big win will get, it's worth noting the Horned Frogs couldn't deliver on their mid-game trolling. The family of Roger Maris will now need to attend every TCU game until the Horned Frogs score 62.
Really? Was it in the Big XII 2022 preview? I gotta call bullspit on that. ESPN couldn't give two craps about TCU unless it results in money in their pockets, then maybe half a crap.
 
Amazing stat in the NY Post piece: "(Duggan) has yet to commit a turnover and against Oklahoma became the second player in the last 15 years with a 60-yard rushing and 60-yard passing touchdown in the first quarter, according to ESPN Stats and Info. The other player: Lamar Jackson."
We had another QB at TCU that was a good athlete but he always performed like a journeyman/ bus driver. Then GMFP hired two new OC’s to open up the offense and that journeyman looked a lot different in the new OC’s system. Granted, the changes here are not near as large but good grief that offense and Duggan look better. Still early but encouraging early results.
 

Eight

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We had another QB at TCU that was a good athlete but he always performed like a journeyman/ bus driver. Then GMFP hired two new OC’s to open up the offense and that journeyman looked a lot different in the new OC’s system. Granted, the changes here are not near as large but good grief that offense and Duggan look better. Still early but encouraging early results.

you mean the quarterback who had the great game at baylor, but was forced into a offense that didn't fit his ability, and then the next year he practiced at multiple positions on a squad that was divided over who should be the quarterback?
 
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