Jill and Brents Football Blog

TCU lost final year’s Fiesta Bowl against Boise State by just a touchdown. The extremely intriguing concern here is that this tiny bump would be the only negative mark in what has been an otherwise impeccable two seasons for the Texas Christian University football team. The TCU Horned Frogs managed to complete a ideal season ranked as the No. 3 team in the Nation with a 13- record that ended with a excellent win more than the Wisconsin Badgers for the BCS Rose Bowl played at Pasadena, California. Tank Carder, a defensive linesman for the Horned Frogs was in a position to jump in the proper moment to interfere with Scott Tolzien’s final pass in a 2-point conversion that would have forced the game into overtime. The Badgers gave a wonderful battle in the course of the game, but it was just not adequate. At the end, TCU claimed a 21-19 win over Wisconsin to win its first ever Rose Bowl. There had been a lot of questions created in regards to TCU’s performance for the duration of the season.

Confident, this win has secured this group of talented players (guided no other then by head coach Gary Patterson) a place in the programs football history. Not only is this a wonderful win for the school but also for all the small programs that have had to deal with that sort of monopoly that comes from the bigger and far more prestigious football programs in NCAA football. The Badgers played a excellent game. That is is something that not the rest of the teams in the Huge Ten can say about themselves. On this New Year’s day the Huge Ten Conference went -5. What we want to point out is that TCU won in the large scenario against a massive school that really played nicely. The Badgers committed no turnovers. They needed not to punt until the third quarter and even though it was a close game, it was just not as close the Badgers fans would have liked it to be. On the other hand, the Horned-Frogs did almost everything they needed to stay in control of the game. TCU’s quarterback Andy Dalton was brilliant. He was there when his team needed him most. He completed 15 of 23 passes for 219 yards and a single touchdown. As a matter of reality he was responsible for 247 of TCU’s 301 yards. So yes, it was one heck of a game. And it was also one particular heck of a game for non Automatic Qualification schools too. The record for non-AQ schools enhanced to 5-two in BCS Bowls. Now, it is uncertain if the Horned Frogs win is of lesser or greater value then what Boise State did in 2007 with their 1-point win over the Oklahoma Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl, or what happened in the 2009 Sugar Bowl in between Utah and the Alabama Crimson Tide in what certainly would be remembered as one particular the most epic upsets of BCS history. What matters is that TCU has proved it deserved to be here. It has proved that they could have been worthy of a National Championship Game. Maybe issues will not change for smaller schools on the long run. But heck, if you have a sweet spot for underdog stories, then you will most likely appreciate TCU’s effort as this is their second consecutive back-to-back BCS Bowl buster.