Sioux Falls Argus Leader: TCU goes from also-ran to Big 12 power
Matt Zimmer, mzimmer@argusleader.com
The Texas Christian football program can be considered a Division I power in today’s college football landscape. They’ve won 23 games in the last two years, had eleven 10-win seasons since 2000, appeared in three BCS Bowls since 2009 and even completed an undefeated season, when they went 13-0 and won the Rose Bowl in 2010. The Horned Frogs were 11-2 last year, and open the season this Saturday when they host South Dakota State. The 7 p.m. kickoff will be televised on Fox Sports Net.
It wasn’t always so good in Fort Worth. One of the losingest Division I programs of the 1970s and 1980s, TCU’s rise to the ranks of college football heavyweight is a fairly recent development.
Remember the late Jim Wacker, the enthusiastic and ultra-positive coach that tried and failed to resurrect the Minnesota Gophers program in the mid-90s? He made a name for himself by (briefly) turning the Horned Frogs into a winner in the early 80s. Wacker went 40-58-2 coaching TCU from 1983-1991, and that’s a far cry from the success current coach Gary Patterson has had. He’s 143-47 since taking over the Frogs at the end of the 2000 season.
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