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GoFrogs: Oklahoma State preview

GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Date: Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Stillwater, Okla.
Venue: Boone Pickens Stadium (55,509)
Series Record: Oklahoma State leads 15-12-2
Last Meeting: TCU won 31-24 (2018)
TV: ESPN
Talent: Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek, Olivia Dekker
Radio: WBAP 820 AM, Sirius 113, XM 200, KTCU 88.7 FM
Talent: Brian Estridge, John Denton, Landry Burdine
Spanish Radio: KFZO 99.1 FM
Talent: Miguel Cruz, Elvis Gallegos

ABOUT THE GAME
- TCU returns to the road Saturday for a 2:30 p.m. contest at Oklahoma State.
- The Horned Frogs are in the midst of five out of seven games on the road.
- TCU is playing in Stillwater for the fifth time in its eight seasons in the Big 12. Upon entering the conference in 2012, TCU inherited Texas A&M's league schedule in which the Aggies owed the Cowboys an extra home game. TCU played at Oklahoma State in consecutive seasons in 2012 and 2013, before hosting the Cowboys for the first time in 2014.
- The game features the all-time winningest coaches at both schools. Patterson has 171 victories at TCU, while Mike Gundy has 126 for OSU.
- Patterson is 3-4 as a head coach versus Oklahoma State with all seven meetings since TCU joined the Big 12 in 2012.

ROAD WORK
- TCU's 40 road wins since 2009 rank in a tie for third nationally. The Horned Frogs are 40-17 (.702) in that stretch.
- TCU is 18-16 on the road in its Big 12 history.
- Ten of TCU's last 22 Big 12 road games have been decided by seven points or less. The Horned Frogs are 6-4 in those games. Since beginning Big 12 play in 2012, TCU is 9-7 in conference road games decided by seven points or less.

WHEN LAST IN STILLWATER
- Behind a career-high 160 yards rushing and three touchdowns by Darius Anderson, TCU posted a 44-31 win at No. 6 Oklahoma State in 2017.
- Anderson was named the Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week.
- The Horned Frogs had 32 first downs, 228 yards rushing and 466 in total offense while holding a 39:04 to 20:56 edge in time of possession.

SERIES HISTORY
- Oklahoma State holds a 15-12-2 edge in the all-time series with TCU.
- TCU is 4-8 versus Oklahoma State in Stillwater, 7-5-2 in Fort Worth, 1-1 in a pair of meetings (1943, 1946) in Oklahoma City and 0-1 in Dallas (1945 Cotton Bowl).
- TCU has won the last two meetings with Oklahoma State, its longest winning streak versus the Cowboys since a string of three consecutive victories from 1990-92.

FAMILIAR FACES
- TCU defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Chad Glasgow was a three-year letterman (1991-93) at linebacker for Oklahoma State. He was also a graduate assistant (1994-95) under former head coach Bob Simmons.
- TCU co-offensive coordinator and running backs coach Curtis Luper played at Oklahoma State (1984-87) before returning to Stillwater as a Cowboys' assistant coach (2005-08).
- Oklahoma State associate head coach/receivers coach Kasey Dunn was TCU's cornerbacks coach in 2003.
- Oklahoma State defensive analyst Chris Thurmond was a TCU defensive backs coach in 1995 as well as 1998-2000, Gary Patterson's three seasons as the Horned Frogs' defensive coordinator. Thurmond was also Houston's interim head coach when it lost 20-13 to TCU in the 2007 Texas Bowl.

IT'S 2019
- In six of the last eight odd-numbered years (2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017), TCU has won at least 11 games.

FOURTH IS FINE FOR NOW
- The Horned Frogs were picked fourth in the 2019 Big 12 Media Preseason Poll.
- The last two times TCU was predicted fourth or lower, it won a Big 12 Championship (2014) and played in the Big 12 Championship Game (2017).

TCU NOTABLES
- Over the last six seasons, TCU (51-22, 32-17) has the Big 12's second-best overall and conference records.
- TCU is one of just six programs nationally to finish in the top 10 of the final polls at least three times (2014, 2015, 2017) in the last five seasons. The others are Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State and Oklahoma.
- TCU has five 11-win seasons this decade, equaling the combined number of the 11 other FBS programs in the state.
- Patterson, at 19 seasons, is the nation's second-longest tenured head coach, trailing only Iowa's Kirk Ferentz (21st year).
 
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