Week 4: TCU-Texas GameDay Information

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Game 4 of the 2018 TCU Football Season: 17th-ranked TCU vs unranked Texas: Saturday, September 22, 2018, at 3:30 pm (Central), Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, Texas; TV: Fox (TV Talent: Joe Davis, Brady Quinn, Bruce Feldman); Radio -- WBAP 820 AM, KTCU 88.7, Sirius 113, XM 200  (Radio Talent: Brian Estridge, John Denton, Landry Burdine); Spanish Radio: KFZO 99.1 (Radio Talent: Miguel Cruz, Elvis Gallegos).

TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson Talks About the Game: here 

Texas Head Coach Tom Herman Talks About the Game: here
 

Information about Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium: here

ESPN College GameDay on Saturday, September 22: ESPN's College GameDay will be in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, September 22, for the No. 20 Oregon - No. 9 Stanford game, which kicks off that evening at 7 pm Central. The game will be televised on ABC. GameDay airs from 8 to 11 am Central on Saturdays on ESPN. The Ducks have been on GameDay 22 times and have hosted the show in Eugene nine times, but not since Oregon's matchup against Michigan State in September 2014. The Ducks are 7-2 in games that follow GameDay broadcasts from Eugene, and 14-8 overall. Stanford has been on GameDay 10 times, hosting once. The Cardinal have a 5-5 record when appearing on GameDay.

The TCU-Texas Line: Opened with TCU as a 2.5-point underdog. At press time, the line had moved to TCU as a three-point favorite. The over/under is 47.

Midnite's TCU-Texas Prediction: TCU 27, Texas 21

TCU-Texas Game-Watching Party Locations: here  

TCU's Previous Game: The then 15th-ranked Horned Frogs lost to 4th-ranked Ohio State, 40-28, on Saturday, September 15, in AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas, to fall to 2-1. Highlights: here 

Texas' Previous Game: Texas beat USC 37-14, in Austin, on Saturday, September 15, to raise its season record to 2-1. The game was played in front of a DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium record crowd of 103,507 fans (the attendance surpassed the previous record of 102,315, which watched the Longhorns defeat Notre Dame to begin the 2016 season). The victory was a milestone for Texas, as it was their 900th all-time win. UT is the third FBS program to reach 900 victories, joining Michigan and Ohio State. The 900th win came in Texas' 1,300th all-time varsity contest. Highlights: here 

Previous TCU-Texas Game: Eighth-ranked TCU beat Texas 24-7, in Amon G. Carter Stadium, on November 4, 2017. Horned Frogs head coach Gary Patterson coached his 100th home game in The Carter that night.

TCU-Texas Rivalry: The game between TCU and Texas is ofte referred to as "The Battle of the Horns.

• This will be the 89th meeting between TCU and Texas. UT leads the series (62-25-1), which began with an 18-10 Texas win in 1897.
• UT won 24 straight over TCU from 1968-91.
• TCU has won four in a row over Texas, and five of the past six matchups in this series since Gary Patterson’s club joined the Big 12. The average margin of victory in the Frogs’ five wins is 25.4 points.
• The Longhorns' last victory over TCU in Austin came in 2007, a 34-13 win.
• The Longhorns own a record of 33-14-1 all-time against TCU in Austin.
• In 2012, TCU upset Mack Brown and No. 18 Texas, 20-13, in the first Thanksgiving night game in Austin following the demise of the Lone Star Showdown with the Aggies.
• Brown and Texas returned the favor in Fort Worth in 2013 with a 23-point win (30-7).
• TCU got the best of the Longhorns (48-10) in Austin on Thanksgiving 2014, in Charlie Strong’s first holiday game.
• On October 3, 2015, in Fort  Worth, during TCU Homecoming Weekend, the Frogs dominated Texas, 50-7, giving TCU victories in back-to-back seasons over Texas for the first time since 1958-59.
• On November 25, 2016, in Austin, the Frogs beat Texas 31-9 in Charlie Strong's last game as the Longhorns' coach. The win marked the first three-game winning streak for TCU over the 'Whorns since four straight victories from 1935-38.
• TCU beat Texas 24-7, in Amon G. Carter Stadium on November 4, 2017. The win marked the first time TCU had been Texas four games in a row since the Frogs won four straight from 1935-38. TCU’s national championships (1935, 1938) were at the front and back ends of that stretch.
• Texas is TCU’s fourth-most played series. The Horned Frogs’ 88 games with the Longhorns trail only Baylor (113), sMu (98) and Texas A&M (92).
• One of the more memorable wins in TCU history was a 6-0 victory at No. 1 Texas on November 18, 1961. The TCU victory potentially cost the Longhorns their first national championship. TCU straggled into the game with a 2-4-1 record. Undefeated Texas was ranked No. 1 in the country for the first time since early 1946, and only TCU and Texas a&m stood between the Longhorns and the school's first national championship. TCU scored in the second quarter by reaching into a bag of tricks. At midfeld, TCU quarterback Sonny Gibbs pitched the ball back to his tailback on a fake sweep, got it back, and then heaved a pass to end Buddy Iles, who was hit at the two-yard line and bounced into the end zone.  On its final two drives of the game, Texas began deep in its own territory and never threatened. TCU had a 6-0 upset win. It was the last win of the season for the up-and-down Horned Frogs, who lost to Rice and tied sMu. Texas bounced back to beat a&m, and then Mississippi in the Cotton Bowl. The Longhorns finished third in the country, behind Ohio State, which had lost to TCU early in the season. Alabama won the national title. In 1962, UT coach Darrell K. Royal compared the TCU situation to a cockroach: “It’s not so much what he gets into and carries away but what he falls into and messes up.”

TCU-Texas Connections: There are many connections between TCU and Texas, including:

• TCU head coach Gary Patterson served in 1987 as the defensive coordinator at Cal Lutheran, alma mater of Texas head coach Tom Herman.
• On November 4, 2017, when TCU beat Texas 24-7 in The Carter, Horned Frogs head coach Gary Patterson coached his 100th TCU home game.
• Former TCU Athletics Director Chris Del Conte is the vice president of intercollegiate athletics at Texas. He was named to the position in December 2017. He had been athletic director at TCU for nine years. He stolen Drew Martin from TCU for his Longhorns' staff. Martin is overseeing external matters like marketing and managing the relationship with Longhorn Network. Martin was an associate athletic director for marketing and licensing with the Horned Frogs and had been at the school since April 2012.
• UT has four players on its roster from Fort Worth: Turner Symonds (#21), of Fort Worth Country Day; Luke Brockermeyer (#46), of All-Saints Episcopal; Byron Vaughns (#50), of Eastern Hills; and Rob Cummins (#99), of All-Saints Episcopal.
• TCU has two players on its roster from Austin: Ryan McGee (#33), of Vandegrift High School; and Elias Gacia Olague (#35), a transfer from Navarro College.
• Texas wide receiver Jerrod Heard's younger sister, Lauren, is a sophomore guard for the TCU women's basketball team. Lauren played in all 36 games, including six starts for the Horned Frogs last season. She averaged 6.2 points and three rebounds.
  

2018 TCU Football Media Guide: here

2018 TCU Football Video: here

2018 Texas Football Guide: here
 

2018 Texas Football Video: here

Frogs Missing in Action: Third-string defensive back Michael Onyemaobi (#22), a redshirt freshman, suffered an apparent season-ending injury in the game against Southern. TCU defensive end Ross Blacklock suffered an injury during fall camp. He is out for the season. Freshman safety Atanza Vongor suffered an injury during fall camp that apparently will cause him to miss the season.

TCU Notables:

• No. 17 TCU plays away from home for the third straight week when it travels down I-35 to face Texas in Austin.
• Although the Horned Frogs are on the road for a third consecutive game, they have yet to leave the state. TCU played at SMU Sept. 7 and in Arlington last week versus No. 4 Ohio State. Ten of TCU's 12 regular-season games this season are in Texas. The Horned Frogs will not play out of state until their October 27 game at Kansas.
• TCU is 37-12 in regular-season games following a loss under Patterson.
• The Horned Frogs have opened with a record of 2-1 or better for the 16th time in 18 seasons under Patterson. TCU is looking to go 3-1 or better for the 14th time with Patterson.
• TCU's 38 road wins since 2009 are second in the nation.
• At 38-12 (.760), TCU has the nation's fourth-best road record since 2009. TCU's 45-18 record (.714) in road and neutral-site games since 2009 is the nation's sixth-best mark.
• TCU is 17-11 on the road in Big 12 games.
• Seven of TCU's last 17 Big 12 road games have been decided by seven points or less. The Horned Frogs are 5-2 in those games. Since beginning Big 12 play in 2012, TCU is 8-5 in conference road games decided by seven points or less.
• TCU is one of just five programs nationally to finish in the top 10 of the final polls at least three times in the last four seasons. The others are Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma.
• Over the last five seasons, the Horned Frogs' 42-14 overall record and 26-10 conference mark both rank second in the Big 12.
• Patterson's 18 seasons as TCU's head coach are more than the combined tenures of the 11 other FBS head coaches in the state of Texas.
• Under Patterson, TCU has posted seven top-10 finishes and 11 in the top 25. The Horned Frogs have won at least 11 games in 10 of the last 15 seasons.
• Running back Darius Anderson’s 93-yard touchdown run against Ohio State is the longest play from scrimmage allowed by the Buckeyes in their history. The run is the longest rushing play in TCU history, bettering the previous mark of 89 yards by LaDainian Tomlinson versus UTEP in 2000 and San Jose State in 1999. The run tied for the fourth-longest play from scrimmage in TCU history. The run also is the longest for a college game in AT&T Stadium’s history.
• Last Saturday against Ohio State, TCU lost for the first time in seven games when College GameDay was present for its game.
• TCU is 5-2 versus Big Ten opponents under head coach Gary Patterson.
• TCU is 5-6 in its last 11 games versus teams ranked in the top five nationally.
• TCU is 44-18 in road and neutral-site games since 2009, the third-best mark nationally.
• TCU ran for 203 yards against Ohio State and is now 89-6 when totaling at least 200 yards on the ground under Patterson.
• The Horned Frogs played at AT&T Stadium for the fifth time in the last nine seasons and are 2-3.
• Against Ohio State, TCU scored for the 323rd 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 November 16, 1991, at Texas (32-0).
• Against Ohio State, quarterback Shawn Robinson posted career highs in completions (24), attempts (40) passing yards (308) and total offense (315).
• Running back Sewo Olonilua set a career high in the Ohio State game with 14 carries. His first quarter scoring run was his first of the season and ninth of his career.
• Receiver Jalen Reagor’s seven receptions for 98 yards in the Ohio State game marked a career high. His 42-yard reception was his longest of the season.
• Receiver TreVontae Hights’ 51-yard touchdown reception against Ohio State was his third career scoring grab on five catches.
• Receiver Dylan Thomas made his season debut against Ohio State. He caught two passes, including a career-long 34 yard reception in the fourth quarter.
• Against Ohio State, left tackle Anthony McKinney made his first career start. Austin Myers started at right guard after starting at left tackle the opening two games.
• In the Ohio State game, safety Innis Gaines set career-highs with his team-best nine tackles and 3.5 stops for loss. The 3.5 tackles for loss were the most by a Horned Frog since Mat Boesen had 5.5 in last year’s regular-season finale versus Baylor. Linebacker Garret Wallow posted a career-high eight tackles. Linebacker Alec Dunham had his first career sack.
• Against Ohio State, Ty Summers made his 27th career start, most among current Horned Frogs. He returned to linebacker after starting the opening two games at defensive end.
• Over the last two games, punter Adam Nunez has had seven of his punts downed at or inside the 10-yard line.
  

2018 Game 5 for TCU: TCU will clash with Iowa State at 6 pm Central on Saturday, September 29, in Amon G. Carter Stadium, in Fort Worth. The game will be a white-out. All fans are asked to wear white TCU gear. The game will air on ESPN2 or ESPNU.

Amon G. Carter Stadium: Construction is underway, with completion in time for the 2019 season, on the $100 million Amon G. Carter Stadium premium seating expansion. The project calls for two new levels of luxury seating above the current upper deck on the east side of the stadium. The new Legends Club and Suites will include 48 loge boxes with two private clubs, over 1,000 club seats and 22 luxury suites. Additional information about The Carter: here http://gameday.gofrogs.com/a-to-z.html

Free Pepsi at The Carter: Every fan who comes to a TCU home game at Amon G. Carter Stadium gets a free 24 oz Pepsi product. It is a thank you from TCU Athletics for "being the best fans in the Big 12," says Athletics Director Jeremiah Donati. Vouchers are given to fans when they enter the stadium.

Have Fun Tailgating at Amon Carter Stadium: Donor parking lots open five hours prior to kickoff. For games that start before 2:30 pm, lots must be cleared by three hours after the games end. For games that start at 2:30 pm or later, Lots must be cleared 90 minutes after games end, or by 11 pm (whichever comes first, due to city ordinance).

Countdown to Kickoff at Amon Carter: Three hours prior to kickoff: Frog Alley opens. Two-and-a-half hours prior to kickoff: Frog Walk begins. Two hours prior to kickoff: autographs by members of other TCU athletic teams. One hour prior to kickoff: TCU Marching Band and Spirit. Thirty minutes prior to kickoff: Frog Alley closes and pre-game show begins.

TCU Gameday Parking and Traffic Information for Amon Carter: here 

Information about Amon Carter Rules and Regulations: here 

Important! Security measures at TCU Athletic Events: Only the following items are permitted into TCU athletic facilities:

• Bags that are clear plastic, vinyl or PVC and not exceeding 14 inches by 14 inches
• One-gallon clear plastic freezer bag (Ziploc bag or similar)
• One unopened bottle of water
• Small clutch bags, approximately the size of a hand, with or without a handle or strap can be taken into the stadium with one of the clear plastic bags
• Exceptions are made for medically necessary items after proper inspection at the stadium gates. Backpacks, diaper bags and other similar bags are not be allowed.
  

2018 TCU Home Game Color Coordination at Amon Carter: Saturday, September 29: White Out -- all fans wear white; Thursday, October 11: Black Out -- all fans wear black; Saturday, October 20: Fan Vote! -- on May 15, fans can vote for the color scheme of this game; Saturday, November 3: Purple and White -- west side of stadium and western parts of the end zones, wear purple, and east side of stadium and eastern parts of the end zones, wear white; Saturday, November 24: Purple Out -- all fans wear purple.