TCU-Oklahoma Football Gameday for Saturday, October 16, 2021

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Game 6 of TCU’s 2021 Football Regular Season: TCU Horned Frogs (3-2, 1-1 Big 12) versus No. 4 Oklahoma (6-0, 3-0 Big 12), Saturday, October 16, 2021; 6:30 pm (Central); Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium; Norman, Oklahoma; TV: ABC (Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Holly Rowe); Radio -- WBAP 820 AM, Sirius 119, XM 200, the new Varsity Network App, and the Riff Ram app (Radio Talent: Brian Estridge, John Denton, Landry Burdine); Spanish Radio: KFZO 99.1 (Radio Talent: Miguel Cruz, Elvis Gallegos).

It is homecoming weekend at the University of Oklahoma.

Big 12 Conference Expansion Update: Big 12 Conference invitations have been accepted by Brigham Young University, the University of Houston, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Central Florida.  The schools said the moves will come by July 1, 2024, at the latest. All four of the schools currently are members of the American Athletic Conference (AAC). Additional information: here 

TCU Uniform Combination for the Oklahoma Game: Against Oklahoma, the Horned Frogs will wear for the first time a uniform combination that consists of a white jersey trimmed in purple and with purple numerals, white pants and a black helmet with a purple Horned Frog logo. 

TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson Press Conference About Oklahoma:  here

Oklahoma Head Coach Lincoln Riley Press Conference About TCU: here 

TCU-Oklahoma Gameday Central: here  

The Line for the TCU-Oklahoma Game: Oklahoma opened as a 12-point favorite. The over-under for total points in the game opened at 66. Oklahoma now is 13.5-point favorite and the over-under is 65 points.

Midnite's TCU-Oklahoma Prediction: Oklahoma 41, TCU 24

TCU-Oklahoma Hype Video: here

TCU-Oklahoma Watch Parties: here  

TCU's Previous Game to the Oklahoma Game: On Saturday, October 9, in Lubbock, Texas, TCU ran wild in a 52-31 win over Texas Tech.

TCU's Next Game after the Oklahoma Game: TCU will play Big 12 foe West Virginia, on Saturday, October 23, in Amon G. Carter Stadium, in Fort Worth, Texas. TCU will be celebrating homecoming. Time and TV broadcast to be announced.

Oklahoma’s Previous Game to the TCU Game: On Saturday, October 9, in the Cotton Bowl, in Dallas, Oklahoma stunned Texas with a comeback and last-second touchdown to win the annual rivalry game, 55-48. Oklahoma had won its previous five games: 40-35 over Tulane, in Norman; 76-0 over Western Carolina, in Norman; 23-16 over Nebraska, in Norman; 16-13 over West Virginia, in Norman; and 37-31 over Kansas State, in Manhattan, Kansas.

Oklahoma’s Next Game After the TCU Game: Oklahoma will meet Kansas, in Lawrence, Kansas, on Saturday, October 23. Time and TV broadcast to be announced.

Previous TCU-Oklahoma Game: The Sooners defeated TCU, 33-14, on October 24, 2020, in Amon G. Carter Stadium, in Fort Worth, Texas.

TCU-Oklahoma Rivalry:

• Oklahoma holds a 16-5 series lead over TCU. 
• The Horned Frogs are 4-6 versus the Sooners in Norman. TCU beat Oklahoma in Norman in 1945 (13-7), 1947 (20-7), 1996 (20-7) and 2005 (17-10).
  
•  TCU is 1-8 versus Oklahoma in Fort Worth. The Frogs beat the Sooners in Fort Worth in 2014 (37-33).
  
• TCU is 0-1 against the Sooners in Arlington (2017 Big 12 Championship Game). 
• The Frogs are 0-1 in Oklahoma City against the Sooners. The first game in the series was a 34-19 Sooners victory in Oklahoma City in 1944.
• Oklahoma has won seven in a row over the Frogs; regular-season games 2015-2020, plus the 2017 Big 12 Championship Game.
• The seven consecutive wins is the longest winning streak by Oklahoma against the Horned Frogs.
• TCU has never beaten Oklahoma two consecutive times.
  
• TCU last won in Fort Worth, 37-33, in 2014, when Bob Stoops was Oklahoma’s head coach.
• TCU's 17-10 win at No. 5 Oklahoma in the 2005 season-opener was the Frogs' first victory over an opponent ranked that high since a 6-0 decision at No. 1 Texas in 1961. The 10 points by OU marked its fewest in a home game under former head coach Bob Stoops.
• TCU head coach Gary Patterson has never beaten Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley, who took over the Sooners’ program in 2017.
• Riley is the only head coach who has beaten Patterson twice in one season, in 2017. 
• Patterson’s losses to Riley include: last year’s 33-14 loss in Fort Worth, a 28-24 loss in Norman in 2019; a 52-27 loss in Fort Worth in 2018; a 38-20 loss in Norman during the 2017 Big 12 Conference regular season; and a 41-17 loss in the 2017 Big 12 Conference Championship game, played in AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. 
• Since TCU began Big 12 play in 2012, six of its nine regular-season games versus Oklahoma have been decided by seven points or less.
• Oklahoma's largest margin of victory in the series is 32 points, when the Sooners beat TCU 35-3 in 1993.
• TCU's largest margin of victory in the series is 14 points, when the Frogs beat Oklahoma 20-7 in 1947. 
  

TCU-Oklahoma Connections: 

• Oklahoma has 47 players from Texas on its roster, including one from Fort Worth sophomore cornerback D.J. Graham of Keller Central High School. 
• TCU has three players from Oklahoma on its roster; freshman wide receiver Chase Jackson, of Choctaw, Oklahoma; sophomore linebacker Zach Marcheselli, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; and redshirt freshman wide receiver Blake Nowell, of Ardmore, Oklahoma.
•  TCU outside receivers coach Malcolm Kelly was a two-time first-team All-Big 12 selection and a 2005 Freshman All-American at Oklahoma. Kelly totaled 144 receptions for 2,285 yards and 21 touchdowns in just three seasons. When he left Norman, Kelly ranked second all-time at Oklahoma with 21 touchdown catches and nine 100-yard receiving games. He tied a school record with 11 receptions as a sophomore versus Texas Tech in 2006.

TCU Missing in Action News: Because of injuries, Zach Evans, Max Duggan and Quentin Johnston are questionable for the Oklahoma game. In last Saturday’s game against Texas game, defensive end Khari Coleman, the 2020 Co-Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year and Freshman All-American, made his season debut after missing the opening three games due to injury. TCU also returned defensive tackle Terrell Cooper, cornerback Noah Daniels and defensive tackle George Ellis III. Defensive tackle Corey Bethley missed the SMU, Texas and Texas Tech games. Wide receiver Quentin Johnston missed the second half of the Texas game and the entire game against Texas Tech because of a knee injury. Also missing the Texas Tech game because of injuries were safety Deshawn McCuin, wide receiver JD Spielman and starting offensive guards Wes Harris and John Lanz. Safety Bud Clark returned from injury in the Texas Tech game but was reinjured. His status for the Oklahoma game is unknown. Safety Nook Bradford is expected to return from injury for the Oklahoma game. Cornerback Noah Daniels is “probable” for the Oklahoma game. He is questionable for the game against Oklahoma. Linebacker Wyatt Harris is questionable for the Oklahoma game. Because of a leg injury, junior wide receiver Mikel Barkley is expected to miss significant playing time in 2021. TCU has its first player in the NCAA transfer portal during this season. Wide receiver TJ Steele entered the portal this week. Steele, a true freshman from Lubbock Estacado High School, had played this season.

TCU Notables: 

• Among Power 5 football teams, TCU tied with Purdue for third in the country over the last four years in one-possession losses, with 12. Nebraska 16, North Carolina 14, Eastern Michigan 13. 
• Against Texas Tech on October 9, TCU scored for the 360th consecutive game. It is the nation’s second-longest current streak and fourth all-time in NCAA history. The Frogs haven’t been blanked since November 16, 1991, at Texas (32-0). 
• After opening a season with four consecutive home games for just the second time in its history, TCU is on the road for a second consecutive week.
• TCU has won five of its last 11 games versus top-five opponents with only two of those contests at home.
• TCU is averaging 236.4 rushing yards per game this season. 
• The Frogs are averaging 209.8 passing yards per game this season.
  
• TCU running back Zach Evans is the first Horned Frog since 2002 with four consecutive 100-yard rushing games.
• TCU running back Kendre Miller (7.84) and Evans (7.82) rank first and second nationally among active players in career yards per carry average.
• Over the last seven seasons, TCU has the Big 12's third-best conference record (39-26) and has the third-best overall mark (61-32).
• Since 2009, TCU is tied for third nationally with 45 road wins. The Horned Frogs are 45-20 (.692) in that stretch.
• TCU's 53-26 record (.671) in road and neutral-site games since 2009 is seventh-best nationally.
• TCU's 35-19 mark (.648) in conference road games since 2009 is tied for 10th-best in the FBS.
• TCU is 23-19 on the road in its Big 12 history. 
• During Patterson's time at TCU, all other FBS programs in Texas have had at least four head coaches.
• TCU is one of just seven programs nationally to finish with an Associated Press Top-10 final ranking in at least three of the last seven seasons (2014, 2015, 2017). The others are Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Penn State. 
• TCU has boasted the top-ranked defense in the Big 12 more than half the seasons it’s been in the conference.
• The Frogs have never had worse than the fourth-ranked total defense since joining the Big 12 in 2012.
• TCU has three 2021 Preseason All-Americans in punt returner Derius Davis, Hodges-Tomlinson and Mathis.  
• TCU this season is scheduled to host seven games at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth.  
• TCU this season has nonconference home matchups against Duquesne (September 4; 45-3 victory), Cal (September 11; 34-32) and SMU (September 25; 34-42).  
• TCU this season will host four Big 12 home games, against Texas (October 2; 27-32), West Virginia (October 23), Baylor (November 6) and Kansas (November 20).  
• The Frogs this season will play five Big 12 away games, at Texas Tech (October 9; 52-31), Oklahoma (October 16), Kansas State (October 30), Oklahoma State (November 13) and Iowa State (November 26).  
• TCU ranks as the fourth-best private college football school of all time, behind Notre Dame, USC, and Miami (Florida). 
• The Horned Frogs are one of only four FBS teams to have played in all six College Football Playoff Bowls, winning all but the Fiesta and Orange.  
• Gary Patterson is the dean of Big 12 coaches. This is Patterson’s 24th season at TCU. It is his 21st season as head coach of the Frogs.   
• sEcSPN ranks Patterson as the 28th best collegiate football coach of the last 50 years.   
• TCU has held its own as a football program in the Big 12, winning a conference championship in 2014, when the Horned Frogs also should have earned a berth in the College Football Playoff. During that season, TCU finished 11-1 and in the top 5 of polls, with notable wins over No. 4 Oklahoma, Minnesota and No. 7 Kansas State, and scoring 82 points against Texas Tech. 
• With the win over Duquesne to open the 2021 season, TCU now is 48-8 in home night games under Patterson.  
• Over the last three seasons, TCU has not had a double-digit-win season. It is the firsttime during Patterson's tenure that the Frogs have gone three consecutive seasons without a double-digit-win season. 
• Of the 12 teams that have changed or moved into power leagues in the past decade, only Texas A&M in the SEC and Pittsburgh in the ACC have better conference records since switching. In the Big 12, only second-ranked Oklahoma has more league wins than TCU since 2014, the season the Frogs shared the conference title with Baylor before the Sooners won the last six.  
• TCU played in the Big 12 championship game in 2017, losing to Oklahoma, 38-20, in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.  
• Of Patterson's 181 career victories at TCU, 105 have come when the Frogs have held opponents to less than 100 yards rushing.
  
• Under head coach Gary Patterson, TCU, which is located in the country’s 12th largest city of Fort Worth, has produced seven top-10 teams.  
• Over the last 13 years, the Frogs own six AP top-10 finishes, twice as many as Texas and two more than USC and Washington combined.  
• During Patterson’s tenure, TCU has earned 20 bowl trips. TCU is 13-6 in bowl games played (the 2020 Texas Bowl was canceled).  
• After the 2010 regular season, the Horned Frogs received the first Rose Bowl invitation offered to a team from a non-automatic-qualifying conference during the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) era. The Horned Frogs won the 2011 Rose Bowl, 21–19, over Wisconsin. The win climaxed an undefeated and untied season that earned TCU a No. 2 national ranking.   
• TCU Athletics, as a whole, is coming off an historic year in 2020-21. TCU won three Big 12 championships last year, in baseball, women’s soccer and men’s tennis. Ten of TCU’s 21 sports appeared in the national top 25. And rifle won another national title. 
• Over the past 10 years, TCU has invested more than $400 million in athletics facilities through donor funding. 
• Nearly 100 percent of TCU's more than 500 student-athletes are vaccinated against COVID-19. 
• TCU senior guard Wes Harris (6-4, 321 pounds), is the strongest Frog. Harris bench presses 530 pounds, squats 705 pounds and cleans 470 pounds.  
• TCU quarterback Max Duggan missed the majority of the 2020 preseason camp due to surgery to correct Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, a heart condition he was born with.
• TCU’s 2020 6-4 regular-season earned the Frogs a trip to the Texas Bowl. The Frogs were scheduled to face former Southwest Conference foe Arkansas on New Year’s Eve. However, the Frogs had to cancel their appearance due "to an increased number of positive COVID-19 tests and other circumstances within the TCU football program."  
• Doug Meacham is TCU’s new offensive coordinator. He replaced Sonny Cumbie, who in 2020 was TCU’s co-offensive coordinator (with Meacham) and quarterbacks coach. Cumbie left TCU to rejoin Texas Tech, his Alma mater, as offensive coordinator.  
• Meacham rejoined the TCU program in 2020 as inside receivers/tight ends. 
• Prior to returning to the Horned Frogs, Meacham was offensive coordinator of the XFL’s St. Louis BattleHawks. After leaving TCU following the 2016 season, he served as offensive coordinator at Kansas.  In each of his first two seasons at TCU (2014-15), serving as offensive coordinator, the Horned Frogs’ attack ranked among the nation’s best.
• Former TCU quarterback Kenny Hill is the Frogs’ new quarterbacks coach. 
• After concluding his 2017 senior season as TCU's starting quarterback, in which he led the Horned Frogs to an 11-3 record, Big 12 Championship Game appearance and No. 9 final ranking, Hill remained with the Horned Frogs. He served as a student assistant and then graduate assistant, before becoming an offensive analyst in 2020. 
• In his final game at TCU, Hill earned Offensive Most Valuable Player honors in the Horned Frogs' 39-37 Alamo Bowl victory over Stanford. Hill had a rushing, passing and receiving touchdown in the game. Hill set a TCU bowl record with 401 yards of total offense (314 passing, 60 rushing and 27 receiving), while his 314 passing yards and 27 completions were the second-most in a bowl game by a Horned Frog. 
• Hill holds the TCU season (67.3) and career (64.0) completion percentage records. His 269 completions in both 2016 and 2017 tie for second all-time in a season at TCU. He also has the third- and fourth-best single season passing yard totals by a Horned Frog with 3,208 and 3,152 in 2016 and 2017, respectively.  
• As a senior, Hill led the nation with a 67.3 completion percentage on third-down passing. He topped all Big 12 quarterbacks in rushing with 325 yards. He was a Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award finalist and Davey O'Brien Award semifinalist.   
• Tim Beck, who was a volunteer assistant for TCU in 2020, is a new offensive analyst for the Frogs. Beck is an experienced offensive coach who before he joined TCU last season spent his entire coaching career (1987-2019) at Pittsburg State (Pittsburgh, Kansas). He was head coach of the Gorillas from 2010-2019 (Patterson coached linebackers at Pittsburgh State in 1988). Duggan in 2020 became the first TCU quarterback with multiple 100-yard rushing games in a season in the Patterson head-coaching era. He rushed for a career-high and team-best 154 yards and three touchdowns in a 34-18 win over Texas Tech, including an 81-yard scoring run that was the longest by a quarterback in TCU history and tied for 10th-best overall.  
• Duggan has been named to this season's watch list for the Maxwell Award, presented annually to the outstanding player in college football, to the watch list for the Davey O'Brien Award, which is presented to the nation's top quarterback, to the watch list for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is presented to the nation's top upperclassman quarterback in college football, and to the watch list for the Manning Award, which is presented to the collegiate American football quarterback as judged by the Sugar Bowl Committee to be the best in the United States (including postseason performance). 
• TCU led the Big 12 in rushing offense in 2020.  
• Evans has been named to the Academic All-Big 12 Rookie squad. 
• Evans has been named to this season's watch list of the Doak Walker Award. The Doak Walker Award is presented to the nation’s top collegiate running back. TCU Board of Trustees member and Pro Football Hall of Famer LaDainian Tomlinson won the Doak Walker Award in 2000 as a Horned Frog. 
• Evans, a former five-star signee, had a team-best 7.7 yards per carry average in 2020, his true freshman season. It ranked third for a season in TCU history and was second-best in the Big 12 for a true freshman dating back to 2008. The 7.7 average was also fourth nationally by a true freshman in a Power Five Conference over the last six seasons. 
• Evans placed third on the Horned Frogs with 415 yards rushing, while tying for second with four rushing touchdowns in 2020. He topped 100 yards in two of the final three games. He ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns on seven carries in a 52-10 win over Louisiana Tech in the regular-season finale. His first career 100-yard game was in a 59-23 victory at Kansas. He had 100 yards on 12 attempts.  
• Johnson, a 6-4 wide receiver for the Frogs, was one of the best freshmen receivers in college football last season, averaging 22 yards per catch and finishing with back-to-back 100-yard games against Oklahoma State and Louisiana Tech. He had 487 receiving yards and caught four touchdown passes during the season.  
• Johnston’s 22.1 yards-per-reception average last season was the highest for a freshman in Big 12 Conference history and the second-highest for any Power 5 freshman receiver since 2008.  
• Avila, a redshirt junior center and a 2020 Honorable Mention All-Big 12 honoree, is on the watch list for the 2021 Rimington Trophy, which is given to the nation's top center.  
• A big (literally) addition to the offensive line is left tackle Obinna Eze, a junior transfer from Memphis. Eze, 6-foot-8, 315 pounds, started 25 games over his last two seasons at Memphis, including the 2019 team that won the American Athletic Conference Championship and earned a Cotton Bowl berth.  
• Eze is on the watch list for the Wuerffel Trophy, presented annually to the FBS player who best combines exemplary community service with leadership achievement on and off the field. 
• Hodges-Tomlinson was 2020 First-Team All-Big 12 and received All-America honors last season from the Associated Press and Pro Football Focus (PFF). 
• PFF rated Hodges-Tomlinson as the nation's highest-graded cornerback in coverage at 89.1, allowing 12 catches on 45 targets over the final nine games of the season. His 13 pass breakups led the Big 12 and were second nationally. The junior had 26 stops on the season.  
• Hodges-Tomlinson has been named to the Preseason All-Big 12 defensive team, as chosen by media representatives who cover the league, has been named a second-team preseason All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, and has been named a Preseason All-American by Pro Football Focus.  
• Hodges-Tomlinson has been named to the watch list for the Paycom Jim Thorpe Award, presented annually to the nation's top defensive back.  
• Hodges-Tomlinson has been named to the watch list for the Lott IMPACT Trophy. Named after Pro Football Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott, the Lott IMPACT Trophy recognizes the nation's top defensive player in terms of his impact on and off the field.  
• Last season, Mathis, at defensive end, led the Big 12 and ranked 12th nationally in sacks per game at 0.9.  
• A second-team all-conference selection last season, Mathis recorded a team-best nine sacks for the most by a Horned Frog since Mat Boesen had 11.5 in 2017.  
• Mathis in 2020 placed second on TCU with 14 tackles for loss (TFL), which ranked third in the Big 12 and tied for 12th in the FBS. The junior had at least one TFL in nine of 10 games and placed fourth on TCU with 46 tackles. Mathis started all 10 games, marking his second straight season of starting every contest.  
• Mathis has been named to the Preseason All-Big 12 defensive team and was named second-team edge rusher, Pro Football Focus Preseason All-Big 12 team. Hodges-Tomlinson and Mathis have been named to the watch list for the 2021 Chuck Bednarik Award, presented to the nation's top defensive player.
• The duo also has been named to the watch list for the 2021 Bronko Nagurski Trophy, recognizing college football's defensive player of the year. 
• Mathis and TCU defensive end Khari Coleman have been named to the watch list for the Ted Hendricks Award, presented to the nation's top defensive end. TCU is one of four schools nationally to have more than one player on the list. 
• Sandy has been named to the watch list for the Ray Guy Award, honoring the nation's top collegiate punter. 
• Sandy, from Traralgon, Australia, was Second-Team All-Big 12 last season. His 41.0 punting average, which placed second in the Big 12, was the highest by a Horned Frog since Ethan Perry's 44.5 mark in 2012. He had eight punts of at least 50 yards. 
• The Frogs’ Derius Davis, an electrifying kick returner and receiver, has been named a Preseason All-American by Pro Football Focus, and a Preseason All-American punt returner by Phil Steele's College Football Preview. 
• Davis has been named to the watch list for the Paul Hornung Award, recognizing the nation's most versatile player. 
• Davis led the Big 12 and ranked fifth nationally last season in punt return average at 14.5 yards. He was one of only three players in the FBS with two punt returns for touchdowns, reaching the end zone from 67 and 37 yards against Baylor and Kansas, respectively. He is tied for second in TCU history with three career punt return touchdowns on 17 attempts. 
• Evans, Duggan and Johnston have been named to the watch list for the Ninth Annual Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award.  
• The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award recognizes the top offensive player in Division I football who also exhibits the enduring characteristics that define 1977 Heisman Trophy winner Earl Campbell: integrity, performance, teamwork, sportsmanship, drive, community and tenacity — specifically tenacity to persist and determination to overcome adversity and injury in pursuit of reaching goals. In addition, the nominee must meet one or more of the following criteria: born in Texas and/or graduated from a Texas high school and/or played at a Texas-based junior college or four-year Division I college in Texas. 
• TCU players on this season's Reese’s Senior bowl watch list are: Eze, Davis, Van Zandt, Noah Daniels and Spielman.
• TCU has had at least one player selected to play in the Senior Bowl every year since 2015.   
• It has been four years since TCU finished a season ranked in the Top 25. It’s the longest rankings drought of any point in Patterson’s 21 years as the Horned Frogs head coach. 
• Patterson is TCU's overall winningest head football coach. Patterson's TCU head coaching record is 170-75. 
• Patterson’s 170 victories are the most by an active head coach nationally at his current school. His winning percentage ranks fourth among active FBS coaches (minimum 10 years).  
• Patterson is tied for second nationally among active FBS head coaches in most AP Top-10 finishes with six (2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2017). He's also second among active head coaches in most top-25 finishes with 11. 
• Under Patterson, TCU has won six conference championships, in three different leagues -- Conference USA (2002), the Mountain West (2005, 2009, 2010, 2011) and the Big 12 Conference (2014). Patterson also has been named Coach of the Year in each of those conferences. 
• The Horned Frogs have won at least 10 games in 11 seasons under Patterson. Prior to his arrival on campus in 1998, TCU had four 10-win seasons in its history. 
• During his TCU tenure, including three seasons as defensive coordinator (1998-00), Patterson has seen TCU earn 20 bowl trips. TCU is 13-6 in bowl games with Patterson on its coaching staff and 11-6 with him as head coach. Before the Patterson era, the Horned Frogs had only four bowl wins in their history. 
• TCU’s biggest bowl win, and perhaps its biggest win overall, during Patterson’s tenure was the 20-19 victory over Wisconsin in the 2011 Rose Bowl. 
• TCU has 32 active NFL players, with 21 teams having at least one Horned Frog. The Green Bay Packers (Innis Gaines, Vernon Scott, Ty Summers), Houston Texans (Ross Blacklock, Marcus Cannon, Garret Wallow) and Indianapolis Colts (Darius Anderson, Ben Banogu, Joey Hunt) are tied for the most Horned Frogs on the roster with three.

Oklahoma Notables:   

• The University of Oklahoma is a public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, that was founded in 1890.
• The school existed in Oklahoma Territory, near Indian Territory, for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma.
• The school has an enrollment of more than 32,000 students.
• Lincoln Riley is the head coach of the Oklahoma football team.
• Riley became head coach of the Sooners prior to the 2017 season, when Bob Stoops retired on June 7, 2017.
• Stoops had hired Riley at Oklahoma as the Sooners' offensive coordinator, prior to the 2015 season.
• In his first season as Oklahoma’s offensive coordinator, Riley led the Sooners to the seventh-ranked offense in the country. He won the Broyles Award, which annually is awarded to the nation's top assistant coach. 
• Riley graduated from Texas Tech in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in exercise and sports science. 
• Riley’s younger brother, Garrett, is the offensive coordinator at SMU, under head coach Sonny Dykes. 
• As a head coach, Riley has an overall record of 51-8 with the Sooners. Their Big 12 Conference record under Riley is 33-5.
• The Sooners have won the Big 12 Conference championship all four years of Riley’s head coaching career (Oklahoma has won six consecutive Big 12 Conference championships).
• The Sooners have reached the College Football Playoff three times in the last four seasons.
  
• The Sooners this season lead the Big 12 with an overall record of 6-0 and a Conference record of 3-0.
• The Sooners’ latest victory was over the University of Texas, 55-48, in the annual “Red River Showdown” at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Saturday, October 9.
• Prior to beating Texas, the Sooners had beaten: Tulane, 40-35, in Norman; Western Carolina, 76-0, in Norman; Nebraska, 23-16, in Norman; West Virginia, 16-13, in Norman; and Kansas State, 37-31, in Manhattan, Kansas.
• The OU-UT game featured the highest combined score in the game’s history (103 points; 55-48). 
• It took the largest comeback in the series history for Oklahoma to subdue Texas in the closing seconds of this year’s classic, at one point during which the Sooners trailed 28-7. 
• The 21-point comeback victory is tied for the second-largest comeback in Oklahoma football history. 
• Leading the comeback for the Sooners was running back Kennedy Brooks (#26) and quarterback Caleb Williams. 
• Brooks rushed 25 times for 217 yards and two touchdowns against the ‘Horns. 
• Brooks’ 33-yard touchdown run with three seconds remaining was the game-winner for Oklahoma. 
• Brooks’ performance earned him Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week honors. 
• Brooks is Oklahoma’s leading rusher for the season. He has 535 yards on 79 carries. He has scored six rushing touchdowns. 
• Eric Gray (#0) has 282 rushing yards on 55 carries. He does nto have a rushing touchdown.
• Against Texas, starting quarterback Spencer Rattler, a Heisman Trophy candidate, was replaced by Williams.
•  Williams is a true freshman quarterback from Washington, D.C., who was the country’s number-one ranked quarterback in the 2021 recruiting class, and who in 2020 did not play his senior year of high school football because of the COVID pandemic. 
• Against the longhorns, Williams ran for a 66-yard touchdown on a fourth-and-1 play and completed 15 of 24 passes for 211 yards and two touchdowns after replacing OU’s starting quarterback and Heisman-candidate Spencer Rattler, who had two turnovers in the first half that led to Texas touchdowns. 
• Williams’ performance earned him Big 12 Newcomer of the Week honors. 
• For the season, Rattler has completed 130 of 175 passes for 1,371 yards and 10 touchdowns. He has thrown five interceptions. 
• Rattler also has rushed 40 times for 86 yards.
•  Also instrumental in Oklahoma’s win over Texas was wide receiver Marvin Mims (#17) and placekicker Gabe Brkic (#47).
•  Mims had five catches for 136 yards and two touchdowns. 
• Mims is Oklahoma’s leading receiver this season. He has caught 19 passes for 400 yards and two touchdowns. He has a long reception of 52 yards. 
• Mike Woods (#8), Mario Williams (#4), Jadon Haselwood (#11) and Jeremiah Hall (#27) each have two touchdown receptions.
•  Brkic kicked four field goals (26, 29, 35 and 40 yards) and five extra points in Oklahoma’s win over the Longhorns.
•  Brkic’s performance in the Texas game earned him Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week honors. 
• For the season, Brkic has converted 15-of-17 field goal attempts. He has a long field goal of 56 yards. He has not had a field goal blocked. 
• Michael Turk (#37) punts for the Sooners. He averages 49.64 yards per punt. He has a long punt of 85 yards. He has not had a punt blocked. 
• Oklahoma is ranked second in the Big 12 Conference in total offense.  
• The Sooners average 472 total yards a game.  
• OU is second in the Big 12 in passing offense, averaging 285.8 yards per game. 
• The Sooners’ opponents have intercepted five passes. 
• Oklahoma is fourth in the conference in rushing offense, averaging 185.7 yards per game.  
• Oklahoma’s offense has given up 11 sacks.
• Defensively, OU ranks sixth in the Big 12 in total defense, allowing 356.8 yards per game. 
• The Sooners are the conference’s fourth-ranked rushing defense, allowing 91 rushing yards per game.  
• Oklahoma is last in the conference in pass defense, allowing 265.8 passing yards per game.  
• The Sooners have intercepted three passes through six games. 
• Oklahoma is allowing opponents to score an average of 23.8 points per game, which ranks sixth in the Big 12. 
• The Sooners’ defense has recorded 18 sacks, an average of three per game. 
• Leading OU defensively is linebacker Brian Asamoah (#24). He has 35 tackles. 
• Safety Patrick Fields (#10) has 33 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss.
• Defensive lineman Perrrion Winfrey (#8) leads the Sooners with 4.5 sacks. He also has six tackles for loss. 
• Outside linebacker Nik Bonitto (#11) has four sacks and seven tackles for loss.
  

2021 TCU Football Fan Guide: here

2021 Gary Patterson Luncheon Series: Remaining Gary Patterson/Frog Club luncheons, sponsored by Origin Bank: October 21, November 4 and November 18. The luncheons are at noon in the new Legends Club & Suites, located on the east side of Amon G. Carter Stadium.  TCU Frog Club members receive discounts on luncheon tickets. Additional information and tickets: here  

2021 Gary Patterson Radio Show: The 2021 Gary Patterson Radio Show presented by PNC Bank takes place every Thursday of the TCU football season. The show is held in the Railhead Smokehouse on Montgomery Street in Fort Worth. The show is hosted by Brian Estridge. The show airs live from 6 pm to 7 pm CT on 92.1 FM KTFW and 88.7 FM KTCU. TCU fans are welcomed to attend the show.

2021 TCU Football Fact Book: here

2021 TCU Football Roster: here

2021 TCU Football Schedule: here

2019-2020 TCU Athletics Annual Report: here 

2021 TCU Fall Sports Guide: here

2021 TCU Store: Gear up for TCU sports: here

2021 TCU Spirit: here  

2021 TCU Athletics Ticket Information: here   

2021 TCU Athletics Staff Directory: here 

2021 TCU Athletics Compliance: TCU is committed and obligated to the principle of institutional control in operating its Athletics department in a manner that is consistent with the letter and the spirit of the NCAA, Big 12 and University rules and regulations. Additional information: here

2021 Oklahoma Football Guide: here

2021 Oklahoma Football Roster:  here 

2021 Oklahoma Football Schedule: here  

Oklahoma Alma Mater: here  

Oklahoma Traditions: here

Oklahoma’s Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium: here

Oklahoma Athletics Clear Bag Policy: here

sEcSPN College GameDay for October 16, 2021: sEcSPN GameDay will be in Athens, Georgia, on Saturday, October 16, for the showdown between No. 1 Georgia and No. 11 Kentucky. CBS will broadcast the game at 2:30 pm (Central). During the college football season, GameDay airs live on sEcSPN on Saturdays, from 8 to 11 am (Central). GameDay features Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and David Pollack.