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Game 7 of the 2019 TCU Football Season: TCU Horned Frogs (3-3, 1-2) versus No. 15 University of Texas (5-2, 3-1), during Homecoming Weekend at TCU: Saturday, October 26, 2019, at 2:30 pm (Central), Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas; TV: FOX (TV talent: Joe Davis, Bruck Huard and 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).
ESPN College GameDay Week 9: For the first time, ESPN GameDay will be in Brookings, South Dakota, on Saturday, October 26. FCS #1 North Dakota State (7-0) will battle FCS #3 South Dakota State (6-1). The game kicks off at 2 pm Central. The game is not being broadcast by a major television network. 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
Fan Experience at Amon G. Carter Stadium:
- Because of construction on the east side of the stadium, Frog Alley has moved to the area in front of Schollmaier Arena.
- Beer is sold at all concession stands throughout Amon G. Carter Stadium, when gates open (two hours before kickoff), until the start of the fourth quarter. All beer is $7 and sold in aluminum bottles.
- Available selections include Coors Light, Miller Lite, SOL, Revolver and Henry’s Hard Sparkling Water, along with other local brands depending on demand up to a total of eight brands. Each person can purchase two beers maximum per transaction.
- In keeping with industry safety standards and due to the adaption of public beer sales, there is a new No Re-entry policy. If a patron needs to leave during the course of the game due to a medical situation, two gates will be open to accommodate this need. Gate 4 on the west and Gate 9 on the east side. Patrons will need to be scanned out so their ticket can be used for re-admission. Fans who leave Amon G. Carter during the game will need a new ticket to re-enter.
- There are six beer carts, three on the upper concourse and three on the lower concourse.
- There are beverage-only lines at the concession stands.
- New Designated Driver program. There are four stands around the stadium where fans can make a pledge not to drink alcohol and receive a free Pepsi product at any concession stand.
- Pre-game Happy Hour Concessions. Starting when the gates open and going until 30 minutes before kickoff, there will be special prices on some concession items inside the stadium, including: 44 oz Pepsi, $3; large popcorn, $3; peanuts, $3; nachos, $2.25; hot dog, $2; and $2 off all beer.
- Before the frogs run onto the field, fans will see them getting hyped up thanks to new pregame tunnel cameras.
- There is a new north-end videoboard, with a state-of-the-art sound system in Amon G. Carter Stadium. The videoboard measures 108-feet-by-48-feet. There also are new speakers in new locations throughout the stadium.
- Construction continues, with completion scheduled for the 2020 season, on the stadium's $100-million premium seating expansion. The project includes two levels of luxury seating above the current upper deck on the east side of the stadium. There will be a new Legends Club, 22 new suites, 48 loge boxes, over 1,000 club seats and two private clubs. These enhancements are the first since the $164-million rebuild of Amon G. Carter Stadium was completed in 2012.
- New timeout clocks allow fans to monitor the length of TV timeouts during the game. The new clocks will be located on the sideline.
- New grab-and-go convenience stores are located around the stadium, with new food options.
- Several giant cooling fans have been added to the concourses.
- There is a new Social Media Center at The Carter. Interact at the social photo booth, meet and take pictures with special guests and post on social media.
- There are new Fanthology Food Carts, offering new food options, including milkshakes, loaded waffle fries, chicken wings, street tacos and nachos.
- There are some new food vendors in the stadium and in Frog Alley. They include Dwell Coffee & Biscuits, Señor Matador’s Tacos, Rudy’s BBQ, and Austin City Tacos.
- Riff Ram App: Available in the Apple App Store or in Google Play.
TCU Football 2019 Hype Video: here
TCU Riff-Ram Video from the TCU-Arkansas Pine Bluff Game on August 31: here
TCU Riff-Ram Video from the TCU-SMU Game on September 21: here
TCU Riff-Ram Video from TCU-Kansas Game on September 28: here
Color Coordination for the TCU-Texas Game: Wear your favorite TCU colors. The Frogs will be wearing a new Nike Fierce Red uniform, which features red accents, red-palmed gloves and red numbers.
TCU's Previous Game:
This is TCU’s seventh game of the 2019 season. The Frogs' last game was a 24-17 loss to Kansas State in Manhattan, Kansas, on October 19. TCU is 3-3 (1-2, Big 12). TCU’s wins have been over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Purdue and Kansas. TCU's losses have been to SMU, Iowa State and Kansas State.
Texas’ Previous Game: On October 19, Texas beat Kansas, 50-48, in Austin, when the Longhorns' field goal kicker, Cameron Dicker, kicked a 37-yard field goal as time expired. Texas is 5-2 (3-1, Big 12). Texas; wins have been over Louisiana Tech, Rice, Oklahoma State, West Virginia, and Kansas. Texas' losses have been to LSU and Oklahoma.
Previous TCU-Texas Game: Texas beat TCU, 31-16, in Austin on September 22, 2018.
TCU-Texas Rivalry:
- 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.
- TCU has beaten Texas the last two times the teams have played in Fort Worth; 24-7 in 2017 and 50-7 in 2015.
- This will be the 90th meeting between TCU and Texas. UT leads the series, 63-25-1, which began with an 18-10 Texas win in 1897.
- UT won 24 straight over TCU from 1968-91.
- TCU has won five of the past seven 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.
- 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 beaten 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’ 89 games with the Longhorns trail only Baylor (114), SMU (99) 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:
- 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.
- UT has four players on its roster from Fort Worth: Luke Brockermeyer (#47), of All Saints; Rob Cummins (#90), of All Saints; Turner Symonds (#21), of Fort Worth Country Day; and Byron Vaughns (#50), of Eastern Hills.
- TCU has four players on its roster from Austin: Matthew Baldwin (#18), a redshirt freshman transfer from Ohio State; Ryan McGee (#33); Elias Garcia Olague (#35); Cole Sayre (#82)
- Lauren Heard, a junior guard for the TCU women's basketball team, is the younger sister of former Texas wide receiver Jerrod Heard.
2019 TCU Football Fact Book: here
2019 TCU Sports Fall Guide: here
TCU Campus Tour Video: here
2019 Texas Football Guide: here
2019 Texas Football Video: here
Frogs Missing in Action: Receiver Dylan Thomas suffered a leg injury in the Iowa State game. The injury required surgery. Thomas most likely will miss the season. Cornerback Noah Daniels suffered a
season-ending injury during a summer practice session.
The Line:
TCU opened as a 2.5-point favorite. Texas became a one-point favorite. The over/under is 56 points.
Midnite's TCU-Texas Prediction: TCU 31, Texas 30
TCU Notables:
- The Horned Frogs are 88-22 at Amon G. Carter Stadium in 19 seasons under head coach Gary Patterson.
- TCU is 41-16 in regular-season games following a loss under head coach Gary Patterson.
- TCU is 25-25 against ranked opponents under Patterson.
- TCU is No. 1 in the Big 12 and 11th nationally in total defense.
- The Horned Frogs lead the nation in fewest first downs allowed at 76 (12.7 per game).
- TCU is in its eighth season in the Big 12.
- Dating back to last year, TCU has won six of its last nine games and seven of its last 11 games.
- 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 117-38 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 (137-48) 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 (137-48).
- 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 73 its last 75 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 338 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 338 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 18-18 on the road in its Big 12 history.
Have Fun Tailgating Before and After Football Games:
Donor parking lots open five hours prior to kickoff. For games that
start before 2:30 pm Central, lots must be cleared by three hours after the
games end. For games that start at 2:30 pm Central or later, lots must be
cleared 90 minutes after games end, or by 11 pm Central (whichever comes first,
due to city ordinance).
Countdown to Kickoff: Three hours prior to kickoff:
Frog Alley opens. Two-and-a-half hours prior to kickoff: Frog Walk
begins. Two hours prior to kickoff: gates open; autographs by members of
other TCU athletic teams. One hour prior to kickoff: TCU Marching Band
and Spirit parade. Thirty minutes prior to kickoff: Frog Alley closes
and pre-game show begins.
TCU Gameday Parking and Traffic Information: here
Amon G. Carter Stadium:
The stadium features a new north-end videoboard, with a
state-of-the-art sound system. The videoboard measures
108-feet-by-48-feet. There also are new speakers in new locations
throughout the stadium.
Construction
continues, with completion scheduled for the 2020 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.
These
enhancements are the first since the $164-million rebuild of Amon G.
Carter Stadium was completed in 2012. That project was funded entirely
by donor support and featured a seating capacity of 45,000. The six new
Founders Club suites, located at midfield on the concourse level, were
sold at $15 million each to provide lead gifts totaling $90 million. On
the west side of the stadium, there are 25 suites, all sold.
Additional information about The Carter: here
Information about stadium 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.
2019 Game 8 for TCU: TCU will clash with Oklahoma State at 2:30 pm Central, on Saturday, November 2, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. ABC or ESPN will broadcast the game.
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