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Michigan State Edges TCU, 17-16
Davion Pierson records nine tackles,a sack, and a forced fumble.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - Dan Conroy kicked a 47-yard field goal with 1:01 left, Le'Veon Bell ran for 145 yards and a fourth-quarter touchdown, and Michigan State rallied to beat Texas Christian 17-16 in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl on Saturday night.
Michigan State (7-6) labored through the first half before going on the longest drive in the school's bowl history, a 90-yard march capped by freshman Connor Cook's 15-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Burbridge in the third quarter. The Spartans recovered a muffed punt by TCU's Skye Dawson at the 4-yard line midway through the fourth quarter and Bell scored two plays later by racing around left end for a 14-13 lead.
TCU (7-6) rallied to set up Jaden Overkrom for a 53-yard field goal with 2:42 left, but left Conroy too much time for his second straight postseason game-winner after beating Georgia with a 28-yard kick in the third overtime of last year's Outback Bowl.
Trevone Boykin threw for 201 yards on 13-of-29 passing with an interception for the Horned Frogs.
TCU and Michigan State came to the desert with an awful lot of similarities.
The Horned Frogs opened their first season in the Big 12 with four straight wins before losing four of their final six games. Michigan State started 4-2, then lost four of six down the stretch.
Michigan State had the nation's fourth-best defense and was 10th in scoring defense during the regular season. TCU was 18th in total defense and 10th against the run.
The biggest difference between the teams was Bell.
The junior was third nationally with 137.3 yards rushing per game and had 1,648 on the season.
Early on, the Horned Frogs gave him nowhere to go.
Filling holes inside and stringing plays out toward the sidelines, TCU stuffed the 237-pound junior on nearly every touch, holding him to 38 yards on 11 carries in the first half.
Of course, it didn't seem to matter what Michigan State did. The Spartans had 29 yards on 12 plays in the first quarter and weren't a whole lot better in the second, with Maxwell throwing two near-interceptions on consecutive passes and an ill-advised trick play that probably should have resulted in a turnover, too.
Michigan State had three first downs and 76 total yards in the first half.
The Spartans still seemed to be stuck in the ruts in the third quarter before grinding out a 14-play scoring drive led by Cook, who replaced Maxwell for the second time in the game. They had their biggest play on a floating pass from Bell to fullback TyQuan Hammock (29 yards), then Cook threw his first career touchdown pass, a 15-yarder to Burbridge on a crossing route that cut TCU's lead to 13-7.
TCU didn't exactly have its way with Michigan State's defense, but did enough to put together three first-half scoring drives.
The Frogs started gashing the Spartans for decent-sized chunks with their option midway through the first quarter, setting up Matthew Tucker's 4-yard touchdown on an end-around.
Boykin had an impressive off-the-back-foot throw to freshman Kolby Listenbee for 59 yards on the last play of the first quarter and nearly had a 19-yard touchdown pass to open the second, but LaDarius Brown was bumped and could not haul in the pass in the end zone. Oberkrom followed with a 47-yard field goal and added another from 31 yards after Boykin hit Josh Boyce on a 61-yard pass to put TCU up 13-0 at halftime.
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TCU POSTGAME QUOTES
Michigan State 17, TCU 16
Dec. 29, 2012
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl
Tempe, Ariz. (Sun Devil Stadium)
Attendance: 44,617
TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson
Opening Statement:
"Well, for us, a great ballgame. Only one person I can blame is myself really. No disrespect to Michigan State, but for us, felt like the fumble, did a couple things, we're in the red zone had to kick field goals. Then fumbled the ball down on the one, two, three yard line, you're not going to win against good football teams. For us, glad we got here. A little empty inside because we felt we left a lot on the field."
Even after this game, throughout this entire season, what does this first season of BCS conference mean for this program?
"There's not even a measure. It's a slam dunk. You just look, when the whole TV contract clicks in, what it's done for the City of Fort Worth, what it's done for the university. It's not even a comparison. It was a win-win before we won one ballgame or lost one ballgame. As we go forward as a university in the Big 12, as the landscape of college football changes, I mean, there's going to be those that are moving ahead and those left behind. We're very fortunate to be where we sit right now. So for us, it's been unbelievable to be where we're at.
"It's been a great year, really, to be honest with you. We don't feel really good right now. But I'm happy for Coach Dantonio for the simple reason I know he went through some struggles this year, too. So you're sitting here, you lost by a point, knowing though if you don't fumble a punt, you don't do this or that, do it. It's like I told my team inside, there's no moral victories. They're not freshmen anymore. We're going to move forward.
"We as a program are used to being in the top 25 and doing the things we need to do. That's where we want to get back to. We want to win a conference championship. We want to play for a national championship. That's what our goals are. That's what we wanted this game to be going into next season. No change.
"We learned a lot from it. I'll have to go back and look where we allowed 226 yards total offense and got beat. You got to look at it, and did as much as we did in the first half, we just didn't put enough points on the board. We have to learn from that."
Did the offensive struggles in the second half put too much pressure on the defense?
"Like I said, they had 227 yards total offense. The guy ran for 145. You have to give him credit. The bottom line to it is, you don't fumble the ball on the two yard line. We get the ball back, who knows what happens in the ballgame. But it happened. You got to go about your business. We're going to live with it. Try not to make that mistake the next time. But, again, you got to give Michigan State a lot of credit. First half, we were going up and down the field. They found a way to stop us in the red zone, made us kick field goals.
"You have to give them a lot of credit to do so. BJ Catalan last play, wide open, and we overthrow him. We felt like Jaden, with the wind and everything, could have kicked a 65 yarder. He's kicked a 61 three or four times for us. We were looking at could we get to the 46, 47 yard line, we felt like he could make it. We never quit from the start to the finish. Against good defenses like Michigan State, you can't make those kind of mistakes."
Would you talk about Le'Veon.
"Obviously he did a really good job. It's hard for you to compare because everybody's a little bit different. Obviously 145 yards, we feel like we have a pretty good defense. As we got into it, he had a couple runs in the second half that helped all that, made a difference. We let him out of the hole on the one run which led to I think a field goal. They still had to punt. That's the punt that ended up on the two yard line. It's a big difference.
"I thought both teams played hard. For all the bowl games, I've watched all the personal fouls, all the fighting, I saw two teams tonight play clean, play hard, go about their business. One team had to win. Too bad it wasn't us. That's just the way it goes."
Trevone seemed to struggle tonight. He also looked like he was in a lot of pain.
"I don't think there's any pain. We missed some balls. I think you got to give Michigan State a little bit of that credit. You got to learn how to find a way to win, plain and simple. Got to find a way to win."
Is a part of you glad to see the calendar year 2012 over?
"No doubt. But you know what, of all the years, if you think, new stadium, everything that went on back in February, then go down your business, new league. But, you know, if it was easy, anybody can do it. For us, we're trying to move forward. Everybody's got problems. How you deal with those problems is how you're going to move forward. For us as a program, like I said before, stated where we're trying to get to.
"You know, what I thought happened in the fourth quarter, I thought Michigan State turned up the heat and I didn't think we answered it. Plain and simple. You got to find guys that go make plays. Jaden made a play, he made 53 yard field goal. He made a play. That's what I told them before the ballgame, because I thought this was very similar to Kansas State defensively, their defense. I thought Kansas State early in the season turned up the heat, but we didn't handle it till the fourth quarter. We nickel and dimed it. I thought we did that in the fourth quarter. We've got to be able to do that and go make plays. That's what you're judged on.
"As Trevone gets older, he'll be judged on when you had the ball last, can you be the guy that drives it down the field, goes and makes the plays that makes a victory. That's what you want out of a quarterback. That's what we're looking for. For us to be successful as a program, whether it's him or whoever it is in the future, that guy has to be able to do that."
With as many games as you did win, all you accomplished, how exciting is the prospect of having a lot of these guys back?
"Well, yeah, I made a joke about we've been so young, taking diapers to practice, that will be fun. But to say probably next year we won't have to play as many freshmen, we'll have sophomores and juniors. We're still not going to have that many seniors. We're at 11 or 12. We're still young. I told them, they've got to get out of "It's okay to play okay and lose by close." That's not okay. I'm not saying that they did.
"We came this direction and lost to a Boise State 17-16. We found a way to beat a Wisconsin, an older team at the end. You go down. We've been in big ballgames. We know how to close ballgames. Teams before this group has. They need to learn how to close ballgames. I don't mean that in a bad way. That just comes with maturity and more want to and more put into. You have to have more at stake. But there was a lot of guys that made a lot of plays. Jason Verrett, Devonte Fields, go down the list of guys that made plays tonight."
They switched quarterbacks back and forth a lot. What does that do to you defensively?
"We knew that No. 18 was going to run more. To be honest with you, he was the guy they booted with, scrambled with. After a couple series, we knew when he came in, we needed to do a better job. We did it on the one drive. The one they scored on, we didn't do a good job of that. Their biggest plays besides a couple that Bell got were a couple scrambles by the quarterback. You can't let that happen."
TCU wide receiver Josh Boyce
Can you talk a little bit about what ending up as the TCU's all time season's reception leader means to you?
"Records are good to be broken, but I was coming for the win, so... Really didn't matter what the record was. We lost."
TCU safety Sam Carter
You held Bell to 38 yards in the first half. Were they doing anything differently in the second half?
"Not really. We just didn't do our assignments, made mistakes, and it cost us."
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POSTGAME NOTES
Michigan State 17, TCU 16
Dec. 29, 2012
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl
Tempe, Ariz. (Sun Devil Stadium)
Attendance: 44,617
Team Notes
*TCU closed the season at 7-6. It marks the eighth straight year and 11th time in Gary Patterson’s 12 seasons as head coach that TCU had a winning record.
*The Horned Frogs appeared in a bowl game for the eighth straight season and 11th time in Patterson’s 12 seasons as head coach.
*TCU is now 7-5 in bowl games under Patterson and 9-5 with him on the Horned Frog coaching staff. Prior to his arrival in 1998 as defensive coordinator, TCU had four bowl wins in its history.
*TCU dropped to 13-15-1 in its bowl history. 

*Eight of TCU's last nine bowl games have been decided by seven points or less. The Horned Frogs are 5-3 in those contests.
*TCU led 13-0 at the half. It was the first time the Horned Frogs blanked a team in the first half since leading Virginia 14-0 on Sept. 22.
*The Horned Frogs, with just one senior (Kenny Cain) on its defensive depth chart, held Michigan State to just 227 yards of offense.
*TCU’s team captains were Josh Boyce, Sam Carter, Devonte Fields and Blaize Foltz.
Individual Notes

*Josh Boyce’s five receptions gave him 66 on the year, breaking TCU’s single-season record of 64 held by Kelly Blackwell in the 1990 and 1991 campaigns.
*Boyce now has 161 career receptions, one shy of Mike Renfro (162, 1974-77) for second place on TCU's career list.
*Matthew Tucker's 28 rushing yards gave him 2,602 in his career, moving him past Aaron Brown (2,596, 2005-08) into 10th place on TCU's career list.
*Tucker’s 4-yard first-quarter scoring run was his team-high sixth rushing touchdown of the season and 33rd of his career, placing third on TCU’s all-time chart.
*Kolby Listenbee’s first collegiate reception was a 59-yard first-quarter grab from Trevone Boykin.
*Jaden Oberkrom’s 53-yard field goal with 2:42 remaining in the game was a career-long kick and ranks third all-time in TCU history. It’s the Horned Frogs' longest made field goal since Peter LoCoco from 52 yards at Wyoming in 2005.
*Oberkrom also had 47- and 31-yard second quarter field goals to make him 22-of-30 on the season.
*Oberkrom's 22 field goals tie for fourth most in a season at TCU.
*Oberkrom was 11-of-14 on field goals of 40 yards or more this season.
*Kenny Cain and Jason Verrett tied for team-high honors with 12 tackles.
*Cain finished the 2012 campaign with a team-best and career-high 86 stops. He became the first player to top TCU in tackles in back-to-back seasons since Jason Phillips in 2007-08.
*Verrett's 12 tackles, including one for loss, represented a career-high. He added two pass breakups.
*Devonte Fields recorded his team-best 10th sack of the season and closed the year with 18 1/2 tackles for loss.
*Davion Pierson totaled a career-high nine tackles, including 1 1/2 for loss, with a sack, forced fumble and quarterback hurry.
Michigan State Edges TCU, 17-16
Davion Pierson records nine tackles,a sack, and a forced fumble.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - Dan Conroy kicked a 47-yard field goal with 1:01 left, Le'Veon Bell ran for 145 yards and a fourth-quarter touchdown, and Michigan State rallied to beat Texas Christian 17-16 in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl on Saturday night.
Michigan State (7-6) labored through the first half before going on the longest drive in the school's bowl history, a 90-yard march capped by freshman Connor Cook's 15-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Burbridge in the third quarter. The Spartans recovered a muffed punt by TCU's Skye Dawson at the 4-yard line midway through the fourth quarter and Bell scored two plays later by racing around left end for a 14-13 lead.
TCU (7-6) rallied to set up Jaden Overkrom for a 53-yard field goal with 2:42 left, but left Conroy too much time for his second straight postseason game-winner after beating Georgia with a 28-yard kick in the third overtime of last year's Outback Bowl.
Trevone Boykin threw for 201 yards on 13-of-29 passing with an interception for the Horned Frogs.
TCU and Michigan State came to the desert with an awful lot of similarities.
The Horned Frogs opened their first season in the Big 12 with four straight wins before losing four of their final six games. Michigan State started 4-2, then lost four of six down the stretch.
Michigan State had the nation's fourth-best defense and was 10th in scoring defense during the regular season. TCU was 18th in total defense and 10th against the run.
The biggest difference between the teams was Bell.
The junior was third nationally with 137.3 yards rushing per game and had 1,648 on the season.
Early on, the Horned Frogs gave him nowhere to go.
Filling holes inside and stringing plays out toward the sidelines, TCU stuffed the 237-pound junior on nearly every touch, holding him to 38 yards on 11 carries in the first half.
Of course, it didn't seem to matter what Michigan State did. The Spartans had 29 yards on 12 plays in the first quarter and weren't a whole lot better in the second, with Maxwell throwing two near-interceptions on consecutive passes and an ill-advised trick play that probably should have resulted in a turnover, too.
Michigan State had three first downs and 76 total yards in the first half.
The Spartans still seemed to be stuck in the ruts in the third quarter before grinding out a 14-play scoring drive led by Cook, who replaced Maxwell for the second time in the game. They had their biggest play on a floating pass from Bell to fullback TyQuan Hammock (29 yards), then Cook threw his first career touchdown pass, a 15-yarder to Burbridge on a crossing route that cut TCU's lead to 13-7.
TCU didn't exactly have its way with Michigan State's defense, but did enough to put together three first-half scoring drives.
The Frogs started gashing the Spartans for decent-sized chunks with their option midway through the first quarter, setting up Matthew Tucker's 4-yard touchdown on an end-around.
Boykin had an impressive off-the-back-foot throw to freshman Kolby Listenbee for 59 yards on the last play of the first quarter and nearly had a 19-yard touchdown pass to open the second, but LaDarius Brown was bumped and could not haul in the pass in the end zone. Oberkrom followed with a 47-yard field goal and added another from 31 yards after Boykin hit Josh Boyce on a 61-yard pass to put TCU up 13-0 at halftime.
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TCU POSTGAME QUOTES
Michigan State 17, TCU 16
Dec. 29, 2012
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl
Tempe, Ariz. (Sun Devil Stadium)
Attendance: 44,617
TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson
Opening Statement:
"Well, for us, a great ballgame. Only one person I can blame is myself really. No disrespect to Michigan State, but for us, felt like the fumble, did a couple things, we're in the red zone had to kick field goals. Then fumbled the ball down on the one, two, three yard line, you're not going to win against good football teams. For us, glad we got here. A little empty inside because we felt we left a lot on the field."
Even after this game, throughout this entire season, what does this first season of BCS conference mean for this program?
"There's not even a measure. It's a slam dunk. You just look, when the whole TV contract clicks in, what it's done for the City of Fort Worth, what it's done for the university. It's not even a comparison. It was a win-win before we won one ballgame or lost one ballgame. As we go forward as a university in the Big 12, as the landscape of college football changes, I mean, there's going to be those that are moving ahead and those left behind. We're very fortunate to be where we sit right now. So for us, it's been unbelievable to be where we're at.
"It's been a great year, really, to be honest with you. We don't feel really good right now. But I'm happy for Coach Dantonio for the simple reason I know he went through some struggles this year, too. So you're sitting here, you lost by a point, knowing though if you don't fumble a punt, you don't do this or that, do it. It's like I told my team inside, there's no moral victories. They're not freshmen anymore. We're going to move forward.
"We as a program are used to being in the top 25 and doing the things we need to do. That's where we want to get back to. We want to win a conference championship. We want to play for a national championship. That's what our goals are. That's what we wanted this game to be going into next season. No change.
"We learned a lot from it. I'll have to go back and look where we allowed 226 yards total offense and got beat. You got to look at it, and did as much as we did in the first half, we just didn't put enough points on the board. We have to learn from that."
Did the offensive struggles in the second half put too much pressure on the defense?
"Like I said, they had 227 yards total offense. The guy ran for 145. You have to give him credit. The bottom line to it is, you don't fumble the ball on the two yard line. We get the ball back, who knows what happens in the ballgame. But it happened. You got to go about your business. We're going to live with it. Try not to make that mistake the next time. But, again, you got to give Michigan State a lot of credit. First half, we were going up and down the field. They found a way to stop us in the red zone, made us kick field goals.
"You have to give them a lot of credit to do so. BJ Catalan last play, wide open, and we overthrow him. We felt like Jaden, with the wind and everything, could have kicked a 65 yarder. He's kicked a 61 three or four times for us. We were looking at could we get to the 46, 47 yard line, we felt like he could make it. We never quit from the start to the finish. Against good defenses like Michigan State, you can't make those kind of mistakes."
Would you talk about Le'Veon.
"Obviously he did a really good job. It's hard for you to compare because everybody's a little bit different. Obviously 145 yards, we feel like we have a pretty good defense. As we got into it, he had a couple runs in the second half that helped all that, made a difference. We let him out of the hole on the one run which led to I think a field goal. They still had to punt. That's the punt that ended up on the two yard line. It's a big difference.
"I thought both teams played hard. For all the bowl games, I've watched all the personal fouls, all the fighting, I saw two teams tonight play clean, play hard, go about their business. One team had to win. Too bad it wasn't us. That's just the way it goes."
Trevone seemed to struggle tonight. He also looked like he was in a lot of pain.
"I don't think there's any pain. We missed some balls. I think you got to give Michigan State a little bit of that credit. You got to learn how to find a way to win, plain and simple. Got to find a way to win."
Is a part of you glad to see the calendar year 2012 over?
"No doubt. But you know what, of all the years, if you think, new stadium, everything that went on back in February, then go down your business, new league. But, you know, if it was easy, anybody can do it. For us, we're trying to move forward. Everybody's got problems. How you deal with those problems is how you're going to move forward. For us as a program, like I said before, stated where we're trying to get to.
"You know, what I thought happened in the fourth quarter, I thought Michigan State turned up the heat and I didn't think we answered it. Plain and simple. You got to find guys that go make plays. Jaden made a play, he made 53 yard field goal. He made a play. That's what I told them before the ballgame, because I thought this was very similar to Kansas State defensively, their defense. I thought Kansas State early in the season turned up the heat, but we didn't handle it till the fourth quarter. We nickel and dimed it. I thought we did that in the fourth quarter. We've got to be able to do that and go make plays. That's what you're judged on.
"As Trevone gets older, he'll be judged on when you had the ball last, can you be the guy that drives it down the field, goes and makes the plays that makes a victory. That's what you want out of a quarterback. That's what we're looking for. For us to be successful as a program, whether it's him or whoever it is in the future, that guy has to be able to do that."
With as many games as you did win, all you accomplished, how exciting is the prospect of having a lot of these guys back?
"Well, yeah, I made a joke about we've been so young, taking diapers to practice, that will be fun. But to say probably next year we won't have to play as many freshmen, we'll have sophomores and juniors. We're still not going to have that many seniors. We're at 11 or 12. We're still young. I told them, they've got to get out of "It's okay to play okay and lose by close." That's not okay. I'm not saying that they did.
"We came this direction and lost to a Boise State 17-16. We found a way to beat a Wisconsin, an older team at the end. You go down. We've been in big ballgames. We know how to close ballgames. Teams before this group has. They need to learn how to close ballgames. I don't mean that in a bad way. That just comes with maturity and more want to and more put into. You have to have more at stake. But there was a lot of guys that made a lot of plays. Jason Verrett, Devonte Fields, go down the list of guys that made plays tonight."
They switched quarterbacks back and forth a lot. What does that do to you defensively?
"We knew that No. 18 was going to run more. To be honest with you, he was the guy they booted with, scrambled with. After a couple series, we knew when he came in, we needed to do a better job. We did it on the one drive. The one they scored on, we didn't do a good job of that. Their biggest plays besides a couple that Bell got were a couple scrambles by the quarterback. You can't let that happen."
TCU wide receiver Josh Boyce
Can you talk a little bit about what ending up as the TCU's all time season's reception leader means to you?
"Records are good to be broken, but I was coming for the win, so... Really didn't matter what the record was. We lost."
TCU safety Sam Carter
You held Bell to 38 yards in the first half. Were they doing anything differently in the second half?
"Not really. We just didn't do our assignments, made mistakes, and it cost us."
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POSTGAME NOTES
Michigan State 17, TCU 16
Dec. 29, 2012
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl
Tempe, Ariz. (Sun Devil Stadium)
Attendance: 44,617
Team Notes
*TCU closed the season at 7-6. It marks the eighth straight year and 11th time in Gary Patterson’s 12 seasons as head coach that TCU had a winning record.
*The Horned Frogs appeared in a bowl game for the eighth straight season and 11th time in Patterson’s 12 seasons as head coach.
*TCU is now 7-5 in bowl games under Patterson and 9-5 with him on the Horned Frog coaching staff. Prior to his arrival in 1998 as defensive coordinator, TCU had four bowl wins in its history.
*TCU dropped to 13-15-1 in its bowl history. 

*Eight of TCU's last nine bowl games have been decided by seven points or less. The Horned Frogs are 5-3 in those contests.
*TCU led 13-0 at the half. It was the first time the Horned Frogs blanked a team in the first half since leading Virginia 14-0 on Sept. 22.
*The Horned Frogs, with just one senior (Kenny Cain) on its defensive depth chart, held Michigan State to just 227 yards of offense.
*TCU’s team captains were Josh Boyce, Sam Carter, Devonte Fields and Blaize Foltz.
Individual Notes

*Josh Boyce’s five receptions gave him 66 on the year, breaking TCU’s single-season record of 64 held by Kelly Blackwell in the 1990 and 1991 campaigns.
*Boyce now has 161 career receptions, one shy of Mike Renfro (162, 1974-77) for second place on TCU's career list.
*Matthew Tucker's 28 rushing yards gave him 2,602 in his career, moving him past Aaron Brown (2,596, 2005-08) into 10th place on TCU's career list.
*Tucker’s 4-yard first-quarter scoring run was his team-high sixth rushing touchdown of the season and 33rd of his career, placing third on TCU’s all-time chart.
*Kolby Listenbee’s first collegiate reception was a 59-yard first-quarter grab from Trevone Boykin.
*Jaden Oberkrom’s 53-yard field goal with 2:42 remaining in the game was a career-long kick and ranks third all-time in TCU history. It’s the Horned Frogs' longest made field goal since Peter LoCoco from 52 yards at Wyoming in 2005.
*Oberkrom also had 47- and 31-yard second quarter field goals to make him 22-of-30 on the season.
*Oberkrom's 22 field goals tie for fourth most in a season at TCU.
*Oberkrom was 11-of-14 on field goals of 40 yards or more this season.
*Kenny Cain and Jason Verrett tied for team-high honors with 12 tackles.
*Cain finished the 2012 campaign with a team-best and career-high 86 stops. He became the first player to top TCU in tackles in back-to-back seasons since Jason Phillips in 2007-08.
*Verrett's 12 tackles, including one for loss, represented a career-high. He added two pass breakups.
*Devonte Fields recorded his team-best 10th sack of the season and closed the year with 18 1/2 tackles for loss.
*Davion Pierson totaled a career-high nine tackles, including 1 1/2 for loss, with a sack, forced fumble and quarterback hurry.
