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FWST: Most popular TollTag is TCU – not Dallas Cowboys, nor Texas A&M BY GORDON DICKSON [email protected] FORT WORTH – TCU is ranked No. 1. No, we’re not talking about the latest college football poll. (The AP preseason poll has the Horned Frogs in seventh place.) We’re talking TollTags. Texas Christian University is by far the most popular specialized TollTag…

FWST: TCU Horned Frogs debut at No. 14 in USA Today Coaches Poll BY CARLOS MENDEZ [email protected] TCU is ranked 14th in the Amway USA Today Coaches Poll, the Horned Frogs’ ninth preseason ranking in 11 years. The Horned Frogs were No. 7 in the final poll last season after going 11-2. They return 13 starters (six…

FWST: TCU’s Cumbie will look at more than numbers in quarterback race BY CARLOS MENDEZ [email protected] The toughest job in TCU’s fall camp might belong to Sonny Cumbie. He has to choose the next quarterback. “I’m excited by the challenge of it,” the Horned Frogs co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach said Wednesday, a day before the…

ESPN: TCU QB battle between Kenny Hill, Foster Sawyer ’50-50,’ says co-OC Max Olson ESPN Staff Writer FORT WORTH, Texas – TCU coach Gary Patterson has a deadline in mind for deciding his quarterback battle between Kenny Hill and Foster Sawyer. Patterson said Wednesday during TCU’s preseason media day he’ll name his starter around 10 days before the Horned Frogs’…

Today’s Knuckleball: Tyler Alexander should be on everyone’s radar ByWayne Cavadi Some pitchers are known as power pitchers. They are massive specimens who seemingly are armed with actual cannons on their shoulders and fire untouchable heat at the batter. Other pitchers are diminutive, standing under 6-foot, and seemingly fool batters and scouts alike with a…

247 Sports: Underrated nationally, TCU slowly starting to shed underdog role Chris Hummer Four years into its grand Big 12 experiment, TCU is among the nation’s elite in terms of on-field success. The Horned Frogs’ 23 combined wins over the past two seasons tops the Big 12 and is behind only Alabama, Clemson and Ohio…

DMN: 5 takeaways from TCU’s reporting day news conference: Latest on QB battle, the ‘good problem’ facing Horned Frogs By Grant McGalliard, Special contributor With TCU opening fall camp, local media were granted access to several players and coordinators before the Frogs took the field. Quarterbacks Foster Sawyer and Kenny Hill were available to the press for…

DMN: Five industry sources weigh in on top candidates to join Big 12; ESPN and Fox not thrilled with expansion talks By Chuck Carlton, Staff Writer It has been barely two weeks since the Big 12 closed its football media days by signaling it was open for expansion. Since then, a host of schools, including SMU,…

DMN: Gary Patterson on expanding Big 12: ‘It’s not the conference’s job to make that university better’ By Ben Baby, Staff Writer If anyone knows what it’s like to be on the outside of the top tier of college football, it’s TCU and coach Gary Patterson. Patterson has first-hand experience of leaving a conference game after…

WFAA: TCU’s Kenny Hill says he’s better prepared for second chance Joe Trahan, WFAA FORT WORTH — TCU quarterback Kenny Hill has found out relatively quickly there’s truth in that old adage, “Beware of what you wish for –  you just might get it.” He went from being state champion at Southlake Carroll to instant…