2019 Horned Frog Football Week 12: TCU-Texas Tech Gameday Information

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Game 10 of the 2019 TCU Football Season: TCU Horned Frogs (4-5, 2-4) versus Texas Tech (4-5, 2-4): Saturday, November 16, 2019, at 11 am (Central), Jones AT&T Stadium, Lubbock, Texas; TV: ESPN2 (TV talent: Dave Neal, D.J. Shockley, Dawn Davenport); 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).

It will be "Celebrate America Day" in Jones AT&T Stadium.

ESPN College GameDay Week 12: ESPN GameDay will be at McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas, on Saturday, November 16, for the game between No. 10  Oklahoma (8-1, 5-1) and No. 13 Baylor (9-0, 6-0). The game kicks off at 6:30 pm Central. ABC is broadcasting the game. The broadcast team will include Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Maria Taylor. This will be the third time Baylor/Waco has hosted GameDay. The last time GameDay was in Waco, Baylor lost to Oklahoma on November 14, 2015. During the college football season, GameDay airs live on ESPN on Saturdays, from 8 to 11 am Central. GameDay features Rece Davis, Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard, David Pollack and Taylor.

Texas Tech Gameday Guide: here

Lead On: A Campaign for TCU Video: here

TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson Talks about Texas Tech: here

Texas Tech Head Coach Matt Wells Talks about TCU: here

TCU-Texas Tech 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 10th game of the 2019 season. The Frogs' last game was a 29-23 triple-overtime loss to then-No. 12 Baylor in Fort Worth, on Saturday, November 9. 

Texas Tech's Previous Game: On Saturday, November 9, Texas Tech beat West Virginia, 38-17, in Morgantown, West Virginia,

Previous TCU-Texas Game: Texas Tech beat TCU, 17-14, on Thursday, October 11, 2018,  in Fort Worth.

TCU-Texas Tech Rivalry:

• TCU and Texas Tech play for the Saddle Trophy, a longtime tradition that was renewed in 2017. The teams used to compete annually in the West Texas Championship for the Saddle Trophy before it went away in the early 1970s. Thanks to M.L. Leddy's Boots and Saddlery of Fort Worth, the Saddle Trophy returned. The Saddle Trophy sits on a stand and includes the logos for TCU and Texas Tech. Scores of the 60-plus years of rivalry are represented on the stand.
• TCU has won two straight games in Lubbock, in 2015 and in 2017; the only two times in program history that TCU has won consecutive games in Lubbock. The Frogs never have won three straight games in Lubbock.
• Since the Horned Frogs began Big 12 play in 2012, the road team has won five of the seven meetings between te teams. 
• Texas Tech holds a 32-26-3 edge over TCU in the all-time series that began in 1926 with a 28-16 TCU victory.
• TCU is 7-18-3 versus the Red Raiders in Lubbock and 19-14 in Fort Worth.

TCU-Texas Tech Connections:

• TCU head coach Gary Patterson and Texas Tech head coach Matt Wells were in Logan, Utah, at the same time. Patterson was the secondary coach at Utah State from 1992-94. Wells was Utah State's quarterback from 1993-96. 
• Since TCU began Big 12 play in 2012, Patterson will have coached against three head coaches at Texas Tech (Tommy Tuberville, 2012; Kliff Kingsbury, 2013-18; Matt Wells, 2019).
• Three members of TCU's staff have spent time at Texas Tech.
• TCU co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Sonny Cumbie came to the Horned Frogs after four seasons as an assistant coach at Texas Tech (2010-13).
• Cumbie was the Red Raiders' starting quarterback as a senior in 2004. One of his top receiving targets was current Tech wide receivers coach Joel Filani.
• TCU defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Chad Glasgow was Texas Tech's defensive coordinator in 2011.
• TCU offensive line coach Chris Thomsen served in the same capacity at Texas Tech in 2012. He was the interim head coach in the Red Raiders' 34-31 win over Minnesota in the 2012 Meineke Car Care Bowl.
• Texas Tech associate head coach/special teams/offensive line coach Mark Tommerdahl was TCU's tight ends and special teams coach from 1998-00, Patterson’s three seasons as the Horned Frogs' defensive coordinator. 
• Cumbie has been on both sides of scoring history in the TCU-Texas Tech series. He helped lead the Horned Frogs to single-game TCU and Big 12 scoring records with an 82-27 victory over the Red Raiders in 2014. The most points ever allowed by TCU under Patterson was in 2004, when Cumbie was the starting quarterback for Texas Tech in its 70-35 win. 

2019 TCU Football Fact Book: here 

2019 TCU Sports Fall Guide: here 

TCU Campus Tour Video: here 

2019 Texas Tech Football Guide: here

2019 Texas Tech Football Video: here

Frogs Missing in Action: TCU quarterbacks Max Duggan and Mike Collins suffered injuries in the Oklahoma State game (November 2). Duggan played against Baylor (November 9) and is expected to start against Texas Tech. Collins did not play against Baylor. His status for the Texas Techgame is unknown. 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. In the Bayor game, Van Zandt suffered what may be a season-ending injury. The Texas game was the last game for offensive tackle Lucas Niang. He has had 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 remainder of the season. Cornerback Noah Daniels suffered a season-ending injury during a summer practice session.

The Line: TCU opened as a one-point favorite. TCU now is a three-point favorite. The over/under is 55.5 points.

Midnite's TCU-Texas Tech Prediction: TCU 27, Texas Tech 24

TCU Notables:

• TCU continues its stretch of playing five of seven games on the road.
• TCU is 42-17 in regular-season games following a loss under Gary Patterson.
• TCU's 40 road wins since 2009 are tied for third nationally. The Frogs are 40-18 in that stretch.
• Four of the Horned Frogs' five 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.
• TCU is No. 1 in the Big 12 in total defense (320.7 yards a game).
• 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.  
• Place-kicker Jonathan Song is 17-of-18 on field-goal attempts this season and 34-of-38 in his career.
• TCU is in its eighth season in the Big 12. 
• Dating back to last year, TCU has won six of its last 11 games and seven of its last 13 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 (51-24, 32-19) 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 26.1 percent (171 of 655) 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 118-40 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 (139-50) 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 (139-50).
• 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 76 its last 79 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 342 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 342 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 655-552-57 in its football history that began in 1896.

Jones AT&T Stadium Rules and Regulations: 
To provide a safer environment for the public and significantly expedite guest entry into our venues, Texas Tech Athletics has a clear bag policy for all ticketed Texas Tech events that limit the size and type of bags that may be brought into our venues.

Guests can carry into the stadium the following style and size bags, packages and containers:

• Bags that are clear plastic, vinyl or PVC and do not exceed 12" x 6" x 12." 
• One-gallon clear plastic freezer bag (Ziploc bag or similar).
• Small clutch bags, approximately the size of a hand, with or without a handle or strap can be taken into the venue with one of the clear plastic bags.
• An exception will be made for medically necessary items after proper inspection.

Prohibited bags include, but are not limited to: purses larger than a clutch bag, briefcases, backpacks, fanny packs, cinch bags, luggage of any kind, non-approved seat cushions or seatbacks *, computer bags, diaper bags, binocular cases and camera bags.

Guests also can continue to carry into the venue binoculars, cameras and smart phones.

*Non-approved seat cushions and seatbacks include large traditional seat cushion pockets, zippers, compartments, or covers. Seat cushions and seatbacks must be 16” or less in width with no armrests.Additional stadium information: here and here

2019 Game 11 for TCU: TCU will clash with Oklahoma at 2:30 pm or 7 pm Central, on Saturday, November 23, in Norman, Oklahoma.