Horned Frog Football Week 8: TCU-Kansas State Gameday Information

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Game 6 of the 2019 TCU Football Season: The TCU Horned Frogs visit Kansas State; Saturday, October 19, 2019, at 1:30 pm (Central), Bill Snyder Family Stadium, Manhattan, Kansas; TV: FSN (TV talent: Justin Kutcher, Petros Papadakis, Shane Vereen); 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). 

ESPN College GameDay Week 8: ESPN GameDay will be in State College, Pennsyvlania, on Saturday, October 19, for the battle between No. 7 Penn State (6-0) and No. 16 Michigan (5-1). The game kicks off at 6:30 pm (Central). The game will be broadcast by ABC. During the college football season, GameDay airs live on ESPN on Saturdays, from 8 to 11 am Central. GameDay features Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard, David Pollack and Maria Taylor. 

TCU Gameday Information: here

TCU head coach Gary Patterson talks about Kansas State: here

TCU-Kansas State Game Watching Party Locations: here 

Kansas State head coach Chris Klieman talks about TCU: here

Kansas State Offensive Coordinator Courtney Messingham talks about TCU: here

Kansas State Defensive Coordinator Scottie Hazelton talks about TCU: here

TCU Football 2019 Hype Video: here 

TCU Football 2019 Intro Video: here 

TCU Riff-Ram Video from TCU-Arkansas Pine Bluff Game on August 31: here 

TCU Riff-Ram Video from TCU-SMU Game on September 21: here 

TCU Riff-Ram Video from TCU-Kansas Game on September 28: here 

TCU's "Hello, FunkyTown. The Frogs are back” Video: here and here 

TCU Earn the Chip Video: here 

TCU's Previous Game: This is TCU’s sixth game of the 2019 season. The Frogs' last game was a 49-24 loss to Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, on October 5. TCU is 3-2 (1-1, Big 12). TCU’s three wins have been over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Purdue and Kansas. The two losses have been to SMU and Iowa State.

Kansas State's Previous Game: Kansas State lost to Baylor, 31-12, on Saturday, October 5. This is K-State's sixth game of the 2019 season. The Wildcats are 3-2 (02, Big 12). Kansas State's three wins have been over Nicholls, Bowling Green and Mississippi State. The two losses have been to Oklahoma State and Baylor.

Previous TCU-Kansas State Game: TCU beat Kansas State, 14-13, on November 3, 2018, in Fort Worth, Texas.

2019 TCU Football Fact Book: here 

2019 TCU Sports Fall Guide: here 

TCU Campus Tour Video: here 

2019 Kansas State Football Guide: here 

2019 Kansas State Football Video: here 

TCU-Kansas State Rivalry:

• TCU and Kansas State are playing for the 13th time in their history.
• The Horned Frogs hold a 7-5 series lead.
• Since beginning Big 12 play in 2012, TCU has won four of its seven meetings with Kansas State. The Horned Frogs are 2-1 in Manhattan, and 2-2 in Fort Worth.
• TCU has won its last two meetings with Kansas State and four of the past five.
• Overall, TCU is 4-2 against Kansas State in Fort Worth and 3-3 in Manhattan.
• TCU head coach Gary Patterson is 4-3 as a head coach versus Kansas State, which is his alma mater.
• Prior to TCU beginning Big 12 play in 2012, the schools had not met on the gridiron since 1986.
• The first game in the series was a 45-0 K-State victory in Manhattan in 1922.
• After that initial game, the schools did not play until four consecutive seasons from 1983-86.
• A 52-45 win in Manhattan in 2015 saw TCU rally from a 35-17 halftime deficit. At the time, it equaled the largest come-from-behind win (18 points) in Gary Patterson's tenure as a head coach.

TCU-Kansas State Connections:  

• TCU head coach Gary Patterson was born in Larned, Kansas, and grew up in Rozel, Kansas. 
• Patterson went to Pawnee Heights High School and then Dodge City Community College, before heading to Kansas State. 
• Patterson is a 1983 graduate of Kansas State. He was a strong safety and outside linebacker for the Wildcats. 
• Patterson is 4-3 as a head coach versus his alma mater, with all of the games having been played since TCU joined the Big 12 in 2012. 
• Former TCU women's basketball coach Jeff Mittie coaches the Kansas State women's basketball team. Mittie's son, Jordan, is a senior defensive tackle on the Kansas State football team. 
• On the Kansas State football roster, there are 19 players from Texas, including one from Fort Worth: junior defensive back Jonathan Alexander (#17), from Trimble Tech High School. 
• On the TCU football roster, there are two players from Kansas: graduate transfer quarterback Alex Delton (#16), of Hays, Kansas, and freshman linebacker Dylan Jordan, of Pittsburg, Kansas. 
• Delton was a quarterback on the Kansas State football team from 2015-18. In last year's TCU-Kansas State game, as a Wildcat, Delton had a one-yard touchdown run against the Horned Frogs. If in this game he finds the end zone as a Horned Frog, he will become the second player in TCU history to score for and against the Frogs. Josh Doctson was the first player to achieve that milestone.

Frogs Missing in Action: Wide receivers Taye Barber and Mikel Barkeley could return to game action against Kansas State. Linebacker Ben Wilson could return to game action against Kansas State. He has not been able to play this year. Linebacker LaKendrick Van Zandt was injured in the Iowa State game. He will be replaced in the Kansas State game by true freshman Wyatt Harris. TCU receiver Dylan Thomas suffered a leg injury in the Iowa State game. The injury required surgery. Thomas likely will miss the remainder of the season. Cornerback Noah Daniels suffered a season-ending injury during a summer practice session.

The Line: TCU opened as a 1.5-point favorite and now is a 3.5-point favorite. The over/under on total points scored in the game opened at 46 points. It now is 44.5 points.

Midnite's TCU-Iowa State Prediction: TCU 26, Kansas State 23

TCU Notables: 

• TCU is in its eighth season in the Big 12. 
• TCU is in the midst of playing five out of seven games on the road. 
• Dating back to last year, TCU has won six of its last eight games and seven of its last 10 games. 
• The Horned Frogs are returning to action at Kansas State after a bye week. TCU has won 14 of its last 18 regular-season games after an open date. 
• The Horned Frogs were picked fourth in the 2019 Preseason Big 12 Media Preseason Poll. The last two times TCU was predicted fourth or lower, it won a Big 12 Championship (2014) and played in the Big 12 Championship Game (2017). 
• In six of the last eight odd-numbered years (2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017), TCU has won at least 11 games. 
• Over the last six seasons, TCU (50-20, 31-15) has the Big 12's second-best overall and conference records. 
• TCU is one of just six programs nationally to finish in the top 10 of the final polls at least three times (2014, 2015, 2017) in the last five seasons. The others are Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State and Oklahoma. 
• TCU has five 11-win seasons this decade, equaling the combined number of the 11 other FBS programs in the state. 
• Gary Patterson’s 19 seasons as TCU's head coach are more than the combined tenures of the 11 other FBS head coaches in the state of Texas. 
• Patterson is the nation's second-longest tenured head coach, trailing only Iowa's Kirk Ferentz (21st year). 
• Under Patterson, TCU has posted seven top-10 finishes and 11 in the top 25. The Horned Frogs have won at least 10 games in 11 of the last 17 seasons. 
• Patterson has accounted for 26 percent (170 of 654) of TCU's all-time football victories. 
• Patterson has been a Coach of the Year in all three leagues he has guided TCU: Conference USA (2002), Mountain West (2005, 2009), and Big 12 (2014). 
• TCU is 117-37 in Saturday contests since 2005 and 21-11 on other days of the week (1-0 on Sundays, 0-1 on Mondays, 2-0 on Tuesdays, 3-0 on Wednesdays, 7-8 on Thursdays and 8-2 on Fridays). 
• Since 2001, Patterson’s first full season as TCU’s head coach, the Horned Frogs have been the most successful program in the state of Texas. Since 2005, TCU has the best record (137-47) in Texas among the 12 FBS programs. 
• Since 2008, Patterson is second nationally among active head coaches in most Associated Press Top-10 finishes, with six. Nick Saban leads, with 11. 
• TCU ranked No. 1 nationally last season for most offensive tackles (six) in the NFL. 
• Since 2005, TCU tops all private schools in victories and winning percentage (136-46). 
• Since the NCAA began tracking statistics in 1937, TCU trails only Alabama for the most times leading the nation in total defense. The Crimson Tide have been No. 1 seven times, while all five No. 1 rankings for the Horned Frogs are in the last 19 seasons.
• With the exception of 2015, TCU has been first or second in the Big 12 in total defense each year. 
• TCU has at least one sack in of 72 its last 74 contests. 
• Since beginning Big 12 play in 2012, TCU leads the conference in most games with at least three sacks. 
• TCU has the longest streak among Big 12 schools with 22 consecutive seasons with at least 25 sacks. 
• Since beginning Big 12 play in 2012, TCU is tied for third nationally with five different players returning punts for touchdowns. 
• At 337 games (November 16, 1991; Texas 32, TCU 0), TCU has the nation’s second-longest current streak for not being shut out. 
• TCU’s streak of scoring in 336 consecutive games is fourth on the NCAA’s all-time list.
  In Patterson’s tenure as head coach, TCU has had 48 players drafted with 119 in NFL camps. 
• TCU has 19 former players active in the NFL. 
• On its 2019 roster, TCU has eight players with their degrees already in hand: Shameik Blackshear, Alex Delton, Nate Guyton, TreVontae Hights, Julius Lewis, Ryan McGee, Sewo Olonilua, and Jonathan Song. 
• On its 2019 120-player roster, TCU has 48 freshmen (true and redshirt). 
• TCU has qualified for a bowl game in 19 of the last 21 seasons. The Horned Frogs have earned a bowl trip in 16 of Patterson’s 18 seasons as head coach. 
• TCU running back Darius Anderson tops all current Horned Frogs with seven career 100-yard games, 2,078 yards and 17 rushing touchdowns. He reached 2,000 career yards in the Kansas game. 
• Anderson is on pace for TCU’s first 1,000-yard season since Kyle Hicks had 1,042 in 2016. 
• In the SMU game, Max Duggan became the second true freshman and third non-Texan to start at quarterback in the 19-season head coaching era of Patterson. In the Iowa State game, Duggan became the first quarterback in the Patterson-era to start a game in his home state that's not Texas. 
• TCU's 40 road wins since 2009 are tied for third nationally. The Horned Frogs are 40-16 in that stretch. 
• TCU is 18-15 on the road in its Big 12 history. 

Kansas State Vistor's Guide: here 

Information about Bill Snyder Family Stadium rules and regulations: here 

K-State is one of three Big 12 schools that do not sell alcohol at football games. Baylor and Iowa State are the other two. 

Important! Security measures at Bill Snyder Family Stadium: 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 gates. Backpacks, diaper bags and other similar bags are not be allowed.

2019 Game 7 for TCU: TCU will clash with the University of Texas on Saturday, October 26, at 2:30 pm Central, in Amon G. Carter Stadium, in Fort Worth, Texas. FOX will broadcast the game. It will be the "Battle of the Horns" and TCU's Homecoming! The Horned Frogs have defeated the Longhorns in four of the last five meetings and are 5-2 against Texas since beginning Big 12 play in 2012.