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| Oklahoma State had 447 rushing yards in its 63-17 victory over TCU linebacker Dee Winters (#11), defensive tackle Terrell Cooper (#95) and their Horned Frogs teammates. OSU running back Jaylen Warren (#7) rushed for 113 yards and three touchdowns on 17 carries. |
Good grief!
What happened?
Did Gary Patterson return to the TCU sideline this past Saturday night (November 13) in Stillwater, Oklahoma, when Oklahoma State bludgeoned the Horned Frogs, 63-17 (Midnite had predicted a 31-24 Oklahoma State win)?
If any of the candidates for TCU’s head football coaching position watched the massacre, they quickly may have removed their names from consideration, since the Horned Frogs appear to be far from again being ready for prime time viewing.
Hey, (Athletic Director Jeremiah) Donati, how’s that search for a new head football coach going?
The gigging of the overmatched Frogs was the third win in a row for Oklahoma State, which improved to 9-1 overall, 6-1 Big 12, and which before the game honored former Cowboys running back Barry Sanders with a statue and induction into the team’s Ring of Honor.
Oklahoma State is tied with Oklahoma for first place in the Big 12. OSU is in the College Football Playoff rankings, and ninth in the Associated Press poll and the Coaches poll.
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| Tom C. "Midnite" Burke |
TCU has lost six of their last eight games, and four of their last five.
TCU is tied with Texas and West Virginia for seventh place in the Big 12.
Has a TCU team of recent times ever put forth such a hideous effort as the Frogs did against Oklahoma State?
Last week, the Horned Frogs were the Cheez-It Bowl Team of the Week, as a result of their 30-28 upset of then No.12 Baylor.
This week, if not for Big 12 traitor Texas’ stunning 57-56 overtime loss to Kansas, TCU would be the Cheese Puffs Embarrassing Team of the Week.
UT lost to a then 1-8 Kansas team that hadn’t won a conference road game since 2008.
Kansas’ improbable victory earned them the Cheez-It Bowl Team of the Week Award.
The ‘Horns have lost five in a row under first-year head coach Steve Sarkisian. It is the first time since 1956 that Texas has lost five football games in a row. The five-game losing streak is tied for third longest in program history.
Hey, (Athletic Director Chris) Del Conte, how’s that move from TCU/Fort Worth to UT/Austin going? Are you certain the Longhorns should be moving to the Southeastern Conference (SEC)?
Inexplicably, against Oklahoma State, most of the Frogs had checked out of the game, at least figuratively, shortly after, or, perhaps, even before, the 7 pm (Central) kickoff.
I guess just by looking at the more physically dominating Cowboys the Frogs figured they had little chance for a second consecutive upset, so why put forth the effort, even though they were appearing on national television, in prime time.
A week ago, after leading the upset of rival Baylor, baby-faced TCU quarterback Chandler Morris, an undersized redshirt freshman, was the toast of the TCU campus and Cowtown.
After the win over Baylor, Morris proclaimed, “We know we can compete with anyone in the country. I feel like we've been defeating ourselves up to this point. This was a great statement win that we need to build off of."
Evidently, Morris and the other Frogs didn’t realize they had to do much more than just show up to win another game, especially against an Oklahoma State team that at the time was ranked 10th in the country.
Against the hapless Frogs, Oklahoma State had 447 rushing yards, the most by a Big 12 team this season.
Cowboys’ head
football coach Mike Gundy wrote a song after his team’s runaway victory. Listen: here
“They out-physicaled, out-played, out-coached us,” TCU interim head football coach Jerry Kill said. “There’s not a whole lot to say when you get beat like that.”
Asked if the Cowboys were the most complete team he’s seen first-hand this season, Kill said, “No doubt about that. Most physical team. No disrespect to Baylor or anybody else we’ve played, but nobody’s that physical.”
After the nightmarish loss, Kill wrote a song. Listen: here
Statistics from the game tell the story of how Oklahoma State proved it is the Big 12’s best team and TCU proved it is one of the conference’s worst teams, if folks hadn't already figured that out.
The 63 points is the most the Cowboys have scored this season. Their second-most is 55 points, which they scored in a 55-3 win over Kansas on October 30.
The 63 points are the fifth-most scored by a Big 12 football team this season.
The 63 points are the most points allowed by the TCU defense this season. The second-most points allowed is 52, by Oklahoma, in a 52-31 loss by the Frogs in Norman, Oklahoma, on October 16.
The 46-point loss is the worst TCU football loss since 1993, when the Frogs lost, 59-3, to No. 3 Texas A&M.
OSU had eight rushing touchdowns.
Four different Cowboys running backs scored rushing touchdowns.
This is the second time in TCU football history the Frogs have given up eight rushing touchdowns in a game. The other team to rush for eight touchdowns against TCU was Texas, in 1974.
Oklahoma State’s 447 yards rushing are the most TCU has allowed this season.
Of the Cowboys’ 447 rushing yards, 302 of the yards came in the second half of the game.
The Cowboys are the sixth team this season to top the 200-yard rushing mark against the Frogs.
Oklahoma State’s nine touchdown is the second-most by a Big 12 team (the most is 10, by Oklahoma, against Western Carolina, and 10, by Texas, against Texas Tech).
Playing for barely more than a half, Oklahoma State running back Jaylen Warren rushed for 113 yards and three touchdowns on 17 carries (6.6 yards per carry). Warren has 1,041 rushing yards for the season. His is the 25th 1,000-yard season in OSU history and the first since Chuba Hubbard’s 2,094-yard 2019 season.
OSU running back Dominic Richardson ran for 134 yards and two touchdowns.
TCU has given up 10 100-yard rushers in its last eight games played.
Cowboys running backs Dezmon Jackson and Jaden Nixon had two and one rushing touchdowns, respectively.
Oklahoma State had scoring runs of one yard, six yards, two yards, five yards, two yards, one yard, 20 yards and 63 yards.
The 20-yard and 63-yard touchdown runs came when Oklahoma State was trying to do nothing more than mercifully run out the clock.
Oklahoma State quarterback Spencer Sanders completed 17-of-25 passes for 235 yards. He threw a 46-yard touchdown pass to Baine Green. He did not throw an interception.
The Cowboys’ 682 yards of total offense are the seventh-most TCU has given up all-time and the most since Baylor had 782 yards in a 61-58 victory in 2014.
Oklahoma State had 35 first downs.
TCU had 13 first downs.
Oklahoma State was 11-for-14 on third downs.
The Cowboys were two-for-two on fourth downs.
TCU was 2-for-13 on third downs, 0-of-1 on fourth downs.
A week after throwing for 461 yards against Baylor and being named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week, Morris completed 11-of-20 passes for 103 yards against Oklahoma State. He threw no touchdown passes. He netted minus-25 yards rushing because he was sacked five times.
Morris’ best effort of the game was when he connected with tight end Dominic DiNunzio, a walk-on who is attending TCU on an ROTC scholarship, on a 46-yard pass play.
True freshman quarterback Sam Jackson, of Naperville, Illinois, took over for Morris in the fourth quarter. It was Jackson’s first extended action of the season.
Jackson completed his only pass attempt, a 62-yarder to wide receiver Taye Barber.
Jackson was sacked twice. He netted four rushing yards on four attempts.
Barber had three receptions for 74 yards.
The Frogs had two receivers with negative yards receiving.
Yes, negative yards receiving.
TCU’s supposedly premier receiver, Quentin Johnston, had two catches for minus-three yards.
Horned Frogs receiver Derius Davis had one catch for minus-one yard.
TCU’s leading rusher was senior Emari Demercado, who had a career-high 90 yards rushing, and one touchdown, on 14 carries.
Demercado’s strong effort was in stark difference to the numerous Horned Frogs who put forth no effort and played with no passion or pride.
Demercado was the Frogs’ only scholarship running back available for the game. Zach Evans, Kendre Miller and Daimarqua Foster were not available because of injuries.
Backing up Demercado was freshman cornerback Ahmonte Watkins He had 21 yards on four carries.
Watkins was rated as the No. 1 all-purpose running back in Texas by 247Sports coming out of Klein Forest High School in Houston, Texas. TCU transitioned him to cornerback.
Demercado’s rushing touchdown came in the fourth quarter. It was the Frogs’ only offensive touchdown in the game.
TCU’s other touchdown was a 28-yard fumble recovery in the fourth quarter by junior defensive end Colt Ellison.
A 44-yard field goal by Griffin Kell in the first quarter was TCU’s lone score in the first three quarters of the game. Oklahoma State led 49-3 with under 13 minutes remaining in the game.
The Cowboys controlled the game from start to finish, building a 28-3 lead by halftime. The 28 points are the most TCU has given up in the first half of a game this season.
Oklahoma State had 12 tackles for loss and seven sacks.
TCU committed 11 penalties for 79 yards. The previous week, against Baylor, the Frogs committed 13 penalties for 111 yards.
Yes, you are excused if you need to head to the bathroom to vomit.
If you can stomach one last home game of this sickening 2021 season, the Horned Frogs are hosting the University of Kansas at 3 pm (Central) on Saturday, November 20, in Amon G. Carter Stadium, in Fort Worth, Texas.
The game is a Thanksgiving appetizer. It’s also a battle for the Big 12 cellar.
The Jayhawks sit at the bottom of
the Big 12, as they annually do, with a conference record of 1-6. They are 2-8
overall, in head coach Lance Leipold’s first year as head coach after he led the University of Buffalo's football team for the previous six seasons.
The Frogs are just above KU in the Big 12, at 2-5, tied with Texas and West Virginia for seventh place.
It is easy to see why Kansas is in last place in the Big 12. The Jayhawks rank 10th in the conference in just about every offensive and defensive category.
In particular, Kansas is last in scoring offense, averaging 17.5 points a game, and they are last in scoring defense, allowing an average of 44.1 points per game.
Despite being the Big 12’s bottom-feeder, the Jayhawks will fly into The Carter with the momentum of their 57-56 overtime upset in Austin of Big 12 traitor Texas.
Kansas was a 31-point underdog against Texas, making KU’s win the largest spread-upset ever in a Big 12 Conference game.
The Jayhawks’ win over Texas snapped their eight-game losing streak this season and a 56-game losing streak in Big 12 road contests that stretched back to 2008.
To shake up their offense, Kansas started sophomore quarterback Jalon Daniels against Texas. It was his first start of the season.
Daniels, who has been announced as KU's starting quarterback against TCU,
completed 21-of-30 passes for 202 yards and three touchdowns against the Longhorns. He also
scored a rushing touchdown.
After Texas had taken a 56-49 lead after the Longhorns’ first possession in overtime, Kansas earned the victory over the Longhorns when Daniels hit fullback Jared Casey on a scrambling pass for a two-point conversion, after a two-yard touchdown run by freshman running back Devin Neal.
Neal rushed for 143 yards and three touchdowns against Texas. He rushed for at least 100 yards for the third time this season. Neal also had a 19-yard receiving touchdown, his first career receiving touchdown.
Against UT, super-senior wide receiver Kwamie Lassiter II caught his third touchdown pass of the season and the seventh of his career. Lassiter has touchdowns in back-to-back games for the first time in his career.
Kansas has four wins in the Big 12 since 2016, half of them against the University of Texas. The Jayhawks’ other two Big 12 wins in that span are against Texas Tech and TCU ( 27-26, in Lawrence, in 2018).
Until last Saturday, the Jayhawks had never won a game against Texas in Austin, but they had beaten Texas in Lawrence, in 2016. Shortly after that loss, the Longhorns fired head football coach Charlie Strong.
If Kansas beats TCU on Saturday, there is no TCU football head coach to be fired.
That already happened, on October 31, after the Horned Frogs lost to Kansas’ other Big 12 team, the Kansas State Wildcats.
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