FWST: TCU reaches midseason with lots of questions, areas to improve
By Jimmy Burch [email protected]
TCU football coach Gary Patterson exhaled deeply, cracked a brief smile and played the glass-half-full card after a 24-23 escape against Kansas allowed the Horned Frogs to carry a 4-2 record into this week’s open date.
The Frogs, limited to a season-low 366 yards by a team seeking its first victory over a Big 12 opponent since the 2014 season, walked out of Lawrence, Kan., with a mathematical chance to rebound in the Big 12 title race only because Kansas kicker Matthew Wyman missed three fourth-quarter field goals.
If he’d made any of the three, the Jayhawks (1-4, 0-2 Big 12) would have secured a victory as a 28-point underdog and triggered two weeks of soul-searching for TCU players, who began September as the highest-ranked college football team in Texas.
Patterson, however, viewed the KU escape differently.