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GoFrogs: Balanced Offense Leads TCU Past Iowa State
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Kyle Hicks ran for 117 yards with a long touchdown and also scored on a 25-yard catch as TCU beat Iowa State 41-20 on Saturday in the first game this season that counts in the Big 12 standings.
Hicks went 64 yards untouched to put TCU (2-1, 1-0 Big 12) up 10-0 in the first quarter, after his path was cleared by 315-pound tackle Joseph Noteboom’s downfield block of a defensive back.
”He kept running until he ran into somebody,” Hicks said.
On the opening drive of the second half, Kenny Hill hit Hicks wide open in the end zone behind the secondary for a 31-7 lead.
”Unreal. He can go,” Hill said when asked about the scores by Hicks.
Iowa State, with first-year coach Matt Campbell, is 0-3 for the first time since 1997.
While the Horned Frogs bounced back from a double-overtime home loss to Arkansas that knocked them out of the Top 25, receiver and returner KaVontae Turpin sustained an apparent left leg injury and had to be helped off the field the play before Hicks’ TD catch. Coach Gary Patterson said he had no update after the game.
Turpin entered the game the national leader with 236 all-purpose yards per game, but had only two caches for 8 yards and one kickoff return for 28 yards.
THE TAKEAWAY
IOWA ST.: The Cyclones, who clearly weren’t ready for Big 12 competition, have to figure out their quarterback situation. As expected, junior Joel Lanning (12-21 passing for 127 yards) and former Georgia transfer Jacob Park (7-15 for 90 yards) both played.
Coach Matt Campbell said he believes both quarterbacks can help Iowa State.
”We’ll just keep manufacturing and working. I think that’s a great situation when you have two guys you really believe you can have success with,” Campbell said. ”Both guys like each other, both guys are helping each other on the sidelines.”
Lanning did have two scoring runs, including an impressive 8-yard TD run when he kept driving his feet and got a push from running back Mitchell Harger after initially being stacked up short of the end zone.
TCU: While the Frogs got the lopsided victory to start Big 12 play, the competition for the next conference game will be much tougher when No. 14 Oklahoma visits in two weeks. Coach Gary Patterson was far from satisfied with what he perceived as a lack of emotion, especially coming off the loss the previous week.
”It’s a win, simple as that,” Patterson said. ”Not happy … but it’s a win.”
Kenny Hill, the new quarterback who had slow starts and strong finishes his first two starts, threw for 219 yards with a touchdown while running for 28 yards and another score while playing only three quarters. The defense had five sacks, matching their total from the first two games combined.
UP NEXT
IOWA ST: Another pre-noon kickoff for the Cyclones next Saturday when they go home to play San Jose State in their last non-conference game.
TCU: The Horned Frogs close out their non-conference schedule Friday night, about 40 miles away at former Southwest Conference foe SMU.
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Post-Game Notes
TCU 41, Iowa State 20
Amon G. Carter Stadium
Team Notes
*Over the last three seasons, TCU is now 25-4 overall and 16-3 in conference play. Both marks are the best in the Big 12.
*TCU won at Amon G. Carter Stadium for the 15th time in its last 16 games. The Horned Frogs are 76-15 in home games over 16 seasons with Gary Patterson as head coach.
*A first-quarter sack by Mat Boesen, in his Horned Frogs’ debut, extended TCU’s school record streak to 33 games with at least one sack. It is the second-longest active streak in the nation, behind only Ohio State with 37.
*TCU’s five sacks were its most since totaling five in the 42-3 win over Ole Miss in the 2014 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.
*TCU ran for 229 yards to improve to 81-5 under Patterson when rushing for at least 200 yards.
*The Horned Frogs improved to 32-11 in regular-season games following a loss under Patterson.
*TCU scored for the 296th consecutive game. It’s the nation’s second-longest current streak and fourth all-time in NCAA history. The Horned Frogs haven’t been blanked since Nov. 16, 1991 at Texas (32-0).
*The Horned Frogs are now 4-1 versus Iowa State in Big 12 play and 7-1 overall in the series history.
*TCU’s team captains were Josh Carraway, Kyle Hicks, Travin Howard and Austin Schlottmann.
*TCU wore a Nike lizard skin jersey with white pants and a white helmet.
Individual Notes
*Deante’ Gray made his second career start at cornerback. His first was versus Iowa State in 2013.
*Kyle Hicks had his first career 100-yard rushing game with a team-best 117 yards on 12 carries.
*Hicks’ 64-yard touchdown run was the longest carry of his career. It gives him five rushing touchdowns in just three games this season.
*The 64-yard scoring run by Hicks was the longest carry by a Horned Frog since Trevone Boykin had a 69-yard touchdown rush at Kansas State last season.
*Hicks’ 25-yard third quarter touchdown catch from Kenny Hill gave him multiple touchdowns in three consecutive games. He’s the first Horned Frog to accomplish the feat since Josh Doctson had at least two touchdown catches in six consecutive games last season.
*Hill’s 1-yard second quarter scoring run was his team-high sixth rushing touchdown of the season. He has run for a score in all three games this season.
*Derrick Green had a 1-yard second-quarter scoring run for his first rushing touchdown as a Horned Frog. He had seven scoring runs at Michigan.
*Trevorris Johnson’s 2-yard third-quarter scoring run was his first of the season and fifth of his career.
*John Diarse had a team-high seven receptions for 97 yards. He totaled three catches in the opening two games.
*Ty Summers totaled a team-high 16 tackles for the second-best game of his career, trailing only the 23 stops in last year’s win over Baylor.
*Mat Boesen, in his TCU debut, had 1 1/2 sacks to tie L.J. Collier for the team lead. Boesen had three sacks for Boise State in 2014. It was the first career sacks for Collier.
*Aaron Curry had a sack to give him a team-best 2 1/2 on the season.
*Tipa Galeai had his first sack of the season and second of his career.
*Ryan Graf’s first quarter 37-yard field goal made him 3-of-4 on the season.
*Brandon Hatfield had a 37-yard field goal on his first collegiate attempt.