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Game 5 of TCU’s 2020 Football Season:
TCU Horned Frogs (1-3, 1-3 Big 12) versus Baylor Bears (1-2, 1-2
Big 12): Saturday, October 31, 2020; 2:30 pm (Central); McLane
Stadium; Fort Worth,
Texas; TV: ESPN2 (TV talent: Dave Flemming, Rod Gimore and Kris Budden); 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 Uniform Combination for the Baylor Game: TCU players will wear a white helmet, white jersey and white pants.
TCU-Baylor Gameday Central: here
TCU-Baylor Digital Game Program: here
The Line for the TCU-Baylor Game: TCU opened as a one-point favorite. The line increased to TCU as a three-point favorite, then dipped to the Frogs as a 2.5-point favorite. The over/under (combined points of both teams) opened and stayed at 48 points.
Midnite's TCU-Baylor Prediction:
TCU 24, Baylor 20
Big 12 Football Coaches Week Eight Teleconference: here
2020 TCU Football Hype Video: here
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2020 TCU Football Fan Guide: here
TCU's Previous Game: This is TCU’s fifth game of the 2020 season.
On Saturday, October 24, in Fort Worth, TCU was dominated by Oklahoma, 33-14. Watch game highlights: here
Previously,
TCU had lost its first game of the season, 37-34, to Iowa State, in
Fort Worth, won its second game of the season, 33-31, over Texas, in
Austin, Texas, and lost its third game of the season, 21-14, to Kansas State, in Fort Worth.
Baylor’s Previous Game: This is Baylor’s fourth game of the 2020 season.
On
Saturday, October 24, in Austin, Texas, the University of Texas beat Baylor, 27-16. Watch highlights: here
Previously, Baylor had beaten Kansas, 47-14, in Waco, and lost to West Virginia, 27-21 (2OT) in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Previous TCU-Baylor Game:
During the 2019 season, in TCU's ninth game of the season, the Frogs lost to 12th-ranked Baylor, 29-23 (3OT), in Fort Worth. Watch game highlights: here
TCU-Baylor Rivalry:
- With 115 games played, TCU has faced Baylor more than any opponent in its history.
- Baylor 's win in 2019 broke a four-game TCU winning streak 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, 55-53-7.
- 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 27-29-4 in home games against the Bears.
- The Horned Frogs and Bears tied in both neutral-site meetings.
- TCU is 8-4 against Baylor since the Southwest Conference dissolved after the 1995 season.
- The Horned Frogs are 5-3 versus Baylor in the Big 12 era.
- In the last 13 games between Baylor and TCU, Baylor has won
all five games decided by less than a touchdown. The Frogs are 8-0 in the games
decided by seven points or more.
- TCU head coach Gary Patterson is 8-4 as a head coach versus Baylor.
- This will be the first meeting between Patterson and Baylor head coach Dave Aranda, who is in his first year as head coach of the Bears.
TCU-Baylor Connections:
- Baylor head coach Dave Aranda graduated from Cal Lutheran in 1999 and was the Kingsmen's defensive coordinator and linebackers coach in the 2005-06 seasons. TCU head coach Gary Patterson was Cal Lutheran's defensive coordinator in 1987.
- Aranda was a graduate assistant on the Texas Tech football staff in 2001 when TCU offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Sonny Cumbie was the Red Raiders' scout team quarterback.
- 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: sophomore cornerback Tre'vius Hodges Tomlinson (#1); and sophomore linebacker Demauryon Holmes (#14).
TCU Notables:
- Gary Patterson is in his 20th season as head coach of the Horned Frogs. He is TCU’s winningest football coach with a record of 173-73. Patterson has won 22 national coach of the year honors. His 20 seasons make him the nation's second-longest tenured head coach.
- Patterson is 173-73 overall in 20 seasons and 40-37 against league opponents since TCU joined the Big 12 in 2012.
- Patterson's 173 victories are the most by an active head coach at his current school.
- TCU is one of just seven programs nationally to finish in the top 10 of the final polls at least three times (2014, 2015, 2017) in the last six seasons. The others are Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Penn State.
- TCU had five 11-win seasons last decade, equaling the combined number of the 11 other FBS programs in Texas.
- TCU is the only school in the nation to lead its conference in total defense in each of the last three seasons.
- The Horned Frogs are 89-27 under Patterson at Amon G. Carter Stadium.
- TCU this season is 0-3 in The Carter. This is the worst start at home for the Frogs since Patterson has been coach. It also is the worst start since TCU lost its first four home games in the 1997 season, when the team went 1-10 under head coach Pat Sullivan.
- This is TCU’s first 1-3 start since 1999. That season, the
Frogs won seven of their last eight games, including a bowl victory in Mobile.
- Under Patterson, TCU is 44-19 in regular-season games following a loss.
- Since 2009, TCU ranks fifth nationally with 42 road wins. The Horned Frogs are 42-19 (.689) in that stretch.
- TCU's 50-25 record (.667) in road and neutral-site games since 2009 is seventh-best nationally.
- The Horned Frogs are 20-18 on the road in their Big 12 history.
- Over the last six seasons, TCU has the Big 12's third-best conference record (34-24) and overall mark (53-29).
- TCU is the only school in the nation to lead its conference in total defense the last three seasons.
- The
Horned Frogs have 11 scholarship seniors, and 20 total, on this year's
team. Fifty-one players are freshmen and redshirt freshmen.
- TCU’s streak of scoring in 349 consecutive games is fourth on the NCAA’s all-time list, trailing only Florida (400, 1988-present), Michigan (365, 1984-04) and BYU (361, 1975-03). The Horned Frogs haven't been blanked since November 16, 1991, at Texas (32-0).
- TCU is one of 21 schools to have won multiple national championships (1935, 1938) and produce a Heisman Trophy winner (Davey O’Brien, 1938). The other schools are Alabama, Army, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Miami (Fla.), Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Pittsburgh, SMU, Texas, Texas A&M and USC.
- TCU is one of nine schools nationally with a Heisman Trophy winner (Davey O’Brien, 1938), NFL Most Valuable Player (LaDainian Tomlinson, 2006) and Super Bowl MVP (Larry Brown, Dallas Cowboys, Super Bowl XXX). The others are Alabama, BYU, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Notre Dame, Syracuse and USC.
- TCU quarterback Max Duggan had a 34-yard run in the Oklahoma game. It is TCU's longest rushing play of the season.
- TCU tight end Pro Wells caught an 11-yard touchdown pass in the Oklahoma game. It was the sixth of his career, the most among current Horned Frogs.
- TCU is averaging 23.75 points per game, which ranks ninth in the 10-team Big 12.
- TCU's opponents are averaging 30.5 points a game.
- TCU is averaging 412.25 yards per game; 147.5 yards rushing and 264.75 yards passing.
- The Frogs rank seventh in the conference in rushing offense.
- TCU ranks fifth in the conference in passing offense.
- TCU's offense has allowed 13 sacks.
- The Frogs have fumbled three times, losing the football twice.
- Duggan has completed 80-of-115 passes (69.57 percent) for 902 yards (225.50 per game). He has thrown four touchdown passes and one interception. he has a long completion of 50 yards.
- Duggan is the TCU's leading rushed. He has run with the football 52 times for a net 150 yards. He has three rushing touchdowns.
- True freshman running back Kendre Miller (#33) has rushed 25 times for 137 yards.
- Redshirt freshman running back Drawin Barlow (#24) has 111 rushing yards on 23 carries.
- Through four games, wide receiver Taye Barber (#4) is the Frogs' leading receiver. He has caught 19 passes for 206 yards and one touchdown.
- Redshirt freshman wide receiver Blair Conwright (#22) has 13 receptions for 184 yards and one touchdown.
- True freshman wide receiver Quentin Johnston (#1) has caught nine passes for 160 yards. He has one touchdown reception.
- TCU's defense has recorded five sacks, intercepted two passes and recovered two-of-four fumbles it has forced.
- TCU's defense has given up 17 plays of 32 or more yards this season.
- Senior linebacker Garret Wallow (#30) leads TCU's defense with 36 tackles. He has five tackles-for-loss and one sack. He has forced two fumbles.
- Sophomore linebacker Dee Winters (#13) has 23 tackles.
- True freshman defensive end Khari Coleman (#11) has one sack and 5.5 tackles-for-loss.
Against Oklahoma, Coleman, making his third consecutive start, had a career-high eight stops, including 3.5 tackles-for-loss and one sack. Coleman's 1.8 tackles-for-loss per game average is tops in the nation among freshmen. - Sophomore defensive end Ochaun Mathis (#32) has one sack and three tackles-for-loss.
- Junior safety La'Kendrick Van Zandt (#20) and sophomore safety Josh Foster (#15) each has an intereption.
- Going back to the 2017 season, TCU is 24-19 overall, 15-16 in Big 12 games.
- The Frogs are 4-9 in their last 13 Big 12 games.
- Since 2018, TCU has won only eight of their last 22 Big 12 games. In 13 of the 14 losses, the Frogs have scored less than 28 points.
Baylor Notables:
- Baylor head coach Dave Aranda is in his first year as head coach of the Baylors.
- Prior to Baylor, Aranda was associate head coach and defensive coordinator at LSU, where he had been since 2106, including a 2020 National Championship and a 2019 SEC Championship.
- Prior to joining LSU, Aranda served as defensive coordinator at Wisconsin, 2013-2015.
- Aranda spent the 2012 as defensive coordinator at Utah State. Prior to Utah State, Aranda spent four years, 2008-11, at Hawai'i, the last two as the Warriors' defensive coordinator after coaching the defensive line his first two seasons.
- Prior to Hawai'i, Aranda coached at Delta State University in 2007, where he served as co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach. Following the season, he spent one month as defensive coordinator at Southern Utah before being asked to join the Hawai'i staff.
- Before Delta State, Aranda spent two years as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at his Alma mater, California Lutheran. It was his second go-around with California Lutheran after serving as an assistant from 1996-99, while finishing his degree.
- Prior to coming to Texas for the Baylor position, Aranda spent five seasons in the state of Texas, including a stint as linebackers coach at Houston (2003-04) and as a graduate assistant at Texas Tech (2000-02).
- Baylor's offense is averaging 28 points a game.
- Baylor's offense is averaging 308 yards per game: 98 rushing and 210 passing.
- The Bears have scored three rushing touchdowns and six passing touchdowns this season.
- Senior quarterback Charlie Brewer (#5) has completed 68 of 104 passes for 627 yards and six touchdowns. He has thrown two interceptions. His longest pass completion has been for 35 yards. He has rushed for 31 net yards on 29 carries.
- Baylor's leading rusher is senior running back John Lovett (#7). He has rushed 35 times for 122 yards. He has one rushing touchdown and a long run of 19 yards.
- Redshirt freshman running back Craig Williams (#20) has 78 yards rushing on eight carries. He has one rushing touchdown.
- Senior running back Trestan Ebner (#1) has run 19 times for 55 yards. He has one rushing touchdown.
- In the Bears’ season-opener against Kansas, Ebner returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, earning Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week. Ebner also scored that day on a 35-yard pass from Brewer.
- Junior wide receiver R.J. Sneed (#0) has caught 15 passes for 161 yards. He has caught one touchdown pass. He has a long reception of 20 yards.
- Ebner has caught 10 passes for 115 yards. He has one touchdown reception and a long reception of 35 yards.
- Sophomore wide receiver Gavin Holmes (#6) has 15 receptions for 101 yards and one touchdown. He has a long reception of 21 yards.
- Lovett, junior wide receiver Josh Fleeks (#21) and sophomore tight end Ben Sims (#86) each have caught one touchdown pass.
- The Baylor offense has allowed eight sacks. Baylor has fumbled once, but recovered the football.
- Baylor opponents are averaging 22.67 points per game.
- Baylor opponents are averaging 367 yards per game; 154 yards rushing and 213 yards passing.
- Baylor's defense has recorded eight sacks, forced seven fumbles (recovered two) and intercepted three passes.
- Junior linebacker Terrell Bernard (#2) leads Baylor's defense with 40 tackles. He has 5.5 tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks. He also has intercepted a pass. Bernard was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in Baylor's 27-16 loss to Texas on October 24. In the game, Bernard tied his career-high with 19 tackles, including nine solo, two tackles-for-loss, one sack and a pass breakup.
- Junior safety/linebacker Jalen Pitre (#8) has 26 tackles and five tackles-for-loss.
- Senior linebacker William Bradley-King (#99) has 3.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks and a fumble recovery.
- Junior safety JT Woods (#22) has two interceptions.
- Sophomore punter Isaac Power (#43) is averaging 40.6 yards per punt. He has a long punt of 66 yards. He has not had a punt blocked.
- Sophomore kicker John Mayers (#95) has made two-of-five field goal attempts. Hhe has a long field goal of 47 yards. He has not had an attempt blocked. Last year, as a redshirt freshman, Mayers kicked three field goals against TCU. His third field goal of the game, a 51-yarder, tied the game at 9-9, with 36 seconds remaining in the game. Baylor won the game, 29-23, in three overtimes.
2020 TCU Football Fact Book: here
2020 TCU Football Roster: here
2020 TCU Football Schedule: here
Gary Patterson's “Take A Step Back” Song Video: here
Gary Patterson's "Game On" Song Video: here
2020 TCU Winter/Spring Sports Preview Guide: here
TCU Booster Information for the 2020-2021 Academic Year: here
TCU "End Racism" Mural Video: here
TCU Beacons Video: here
TCU Football Facilities Tour: here
TCU 2019-20 Athletics Annual Report: here
Baylor head coach Dave Aranda talks about TCU: here
2020 Baylor Football Guide: here
2020 Baylor Football Coaching Staff: here
2020 Baylor Football Roster: here
2020 Baylor Football Schedule: here
Baylor Football Fan Guide: here
Baylor's McLane Stadium: here
2020 Baylor Football Safety Measures: here
Baylor's McLane Stadium Clear Bag Policy: here
2020 Game 5 for TCU:
TCU will host the Texas Tech Red Raiders at 2:30 pm (Central) on Saturday, November 7, in Amon G. Carter Stadium, in Fort Worth, Texas. The game will be broadcast by FS1.
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