2019 Horned Frog Football Week 11: TCU-Baylor Gameday Information

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Game 9 of the 2019 TCU Football Season: TCU Horned Frogs (4-4, 2-3) versus No. 12 Baylor (8-0, 5-0): Saturday, November 9, 2019, at 11 am (Central), Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas; TV: FS1 (TV talent: Brian Custer and Robert Smith); 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).

In honor of Veterans Day (Monday, November 11), it will be Heroes Day at Amon G. Carter Stadium on Saturday, November 9. There will be celebrations of hometown heroes throughout the game.

ESPN College GameDay Week 11: ESPN GameDay will be in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday, November 9, for the game between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabma. The game kicks off at 2:30 pm Central. CBS is broadcasting the game. 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-Baylor Hype Video: 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. 

Lead On: A Campaign for TCU Video: here 

TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson Talks about Baylor: here 

Baylor Head Coach Matt Rhule Talks about TCU: here 

TCU-Baylor Game Watching Party Locations: here

TCU Football 2019 Hype Video: here 

TCU Football 2019 Intro 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 

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

TCU Earn the Chip Video: here 

TCU: The Chip Video: Game 7 vs Texas Video: here 

TCU's Previous Game: This is TCU’s ninth game of the 2019 season. The Frogs' last game was a 34-27 loss to Oklahoma State, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, on Saturday, November 2. 

Baylor's Previous Game: On Thursday, October 31, in Waco, Texas, No. 12 Baylor beat West Virginia, 17-14.

Previous TCU-Baylor Game: TCU beat Baylor, 16-9, on November 17, 2018, in Waco, Texas.

TCU-Baylor Rivalry: 

• With 114 games played, TCU has faced Baylor more than any opponent in its history. 
• TCU has won four straight games over Baylor: 28-21 (2OT), in 2015, in Fort Worth; 62-22, in 2016, in Waco; 45-22, in 2017, in Fort Worth; and 16-9, in 2018, in Waco. 
• TCU leads the series, 55-52-7. 
• TCU and Baylor are former cross-town rivals. After being founded in 1873 in Thorp Spring, Texas, as AddRan Male and Female College, TCU’s campus moved to Waco in 1895. The name was changed to AddRan Christian University in 1889 and Texas Christian University in 1902. TCU relocated to downtown Fort Worth in 1910 when the Waco facility burned. The University then opened three new buildings on its present campus in 1911. 
• The first game between TCU and Baylor was a scoreless tie in 1899. 
• TCU is 28-24-1 on the road versus Baylor and 27-28-4 in home games against the Bears. 
• The Horned Frogs and Bears tied in both neutral-site meetings. 
• TCU is 8-3 against Baylor since the Southwest Conference dissolved after the 1995 season. 
• The Horned Frogs are 5-2 versus Baylor in the Big 12 era. 
• TCU head coach Gary Patterson is 8-3 as a head coach versus Baylor. 
• Patterson is 2-0 against Baylor head coach Matt Rhule.

TCU-Baylor Connections:

• After being founded in 1873 in Thorp Spring, Texas, as AddRan Male and Female College, TCU's campus moved to Waco in 1895. 
• The name was changed to AddRan Christian University in 1889 and Texas Christian University in 1902. 
• TCU relocated to downtown Fort Worth in 1910 when the Waco facility burned. The University then opened three new buildings on its present campus in 1911. 
• Baylor has no players from Fort Worth on its roster. 
• TCU has two players from Waco on its roster: freshman cornerback Tre'vius Hodges Tomlinson (#1); and redshirt freshman linebacker Demauryon Holmes (#14).

2019 TCU Football Fact Book: here 

2019 TCU Sports Fall Guide: here 

TCU Campus Tour Video: here 

2019 Bayor Football Guide: here 

2019 Baylor Football Video: here 

Frogs Missing in Action: TCU quarterbacks Max Duggan and Mike Collins suffered injuries in the Oklahoma State game last Saturday (November 2). Their status for the game against Baylor is unknown. Senior safety Innis Gaines will miss at least the Baylor game because of an injury. TCU graduate transfer quarterback Alex Delton has left the team. Redshirt freshman quarterback Justin Rogers has announced he is transferring from TCU. Cornerback Julius Lewis and linebacker LaKendrick Van Zandt returned to action in the Oklahoma State game. The Texas game was the last game for offensive tackle Lucas Niang. He is having season-ending surgery for a torn hip labrum. 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: Baylor opened as an one-point favorite. Baylor now is a 2.5-point favorite. The over/under is 48 points.

Midnite's TCU-Baylor Prediction: TCU 21, Baylor 20 

TCU Notables: 

• TCU plays just its second home game in an eight-week stretch when it hosts Baylor.  
• TCU is 42-16 in regular-season games following a loss under head coach Gary Patterson.  
• TCU is 89-22 in home games under Patterson.  
• Three of the Horned Frogs' four losses this season have been by seven points or less.
• Linebacker Garret Wallow ranks second in the Big 12 and tied for ninth nationally with 10.4 tackles per game. His team-best 83 stops are more than double the next-closest Horned Frog (Trevon Moehrig, 41). Wallow has 12.0 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks.  
• Safety Trevon Moehrig’s four interceptions are the most by a Horned Frog since Nick Orr had four in 2016.  
• Wide receiver Jalen Reagor's 21 touchdown catches are one shy of tying Josh Boyce (22, 2010-12) for second on TCU's career list.  
• Reagor is second in the FBS in punt return average (18.4 yards) and third in yards with 239.  
• Place-kicker Jonathan Song has been named one of 20 semifinalists for the Lou Groza Award, given each year to the country's top field goal kicker. Song is 15-of-16 on field-goal attempts this season and 32-of-36 in his career. He is 31-of-32 on attempts 40 yards and in.  
• TCU is No. 1 in the Big 12 and 25th nationally in total defense.  
• TCU is in its eighth season in the Big 12.  
• Dating back to last year, TCU has won six of its last 10 games and seven of its last 12 games.  
• TCU's time of possession per game, 33:37, ranks second in the Big 12 and 21st in the FBS.  
• The Horned Frogs were picked fourth in the 2019 Preseason Big 12 Media Preseason Poll. 
• 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 (51-23, 32-18) 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.  
• 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 118-39 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 (139-49) 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 (139-49, .739).  
• 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 75 its last 78 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 341 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 341 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 18 former players active in the NFL. Fourteen of them have earned their degrees.  
• 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.  
• 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.  
• Dan Sharp, the Horned Frogs' defensive line coach, has been on the TCU coaching staff for 28 years. He is the nation's second-most tenured assistant (Bud Foster, Virginia Tech, 33 years).  
• TCU is 655-551-57 in its football history that began in 1896.  

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 10 for TCU: TCU will clash with Texas Tech at 11 am Central, on Saturday, November 16, in Lubbock, Texas. ESPN2 will broadcast the game.