TCU: Horned Frogs Get Defensive Against Baylor

It was a game of no wisdom in an age of offensive foolishness.

TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin (2) throws downfield against Baylor…

There were a combined 8-of-39 on third downs.

In order to keep the Sooner defense on their heels, Mason Rudolph will have to regularly pass to different parts of the field rather than picking his one range and target and sticking to it throughout the drive. The Horned Frogs also limited the Bears to 62 yards passing, their lowest amount since 2002.

Lightning delayed the game’s kickoff by nearly an hour, and the rain only intensified through 60 minutes, with wind chills dipping near the teens. Really, this could not have ended any other way.

“But today was a survival game”.

In contrast to last year’s fourth-quarter collapse against Baylor, Patterson’s squad did just that.

As the TCU celebration commenced, the Bears walked off the field knowing their chances of sneaking back into the CFP discussion had arrived at an end.

When play resumed, Chafin took a handoff and ran into defenders Julius Lewis and Ty Summers, the last of Summers’ school-record 23 tackles. “There’s a whole list of stuff that I don’t know about”. At the end of the day, turnovers were the telling tale of the game.

“It was a little extra motivation that fueled us in the offseason”.

The Sunflower State showdown has Kansas State trying to get another step closer toward bowl eligibility while the Jayhawks want to avoid being the first Power Five conference team since Washington in 2008 to go winless in a season. They would need to win this game, as well as their next on December 5 at home against the Texas Longhorns. Baylor is the only team that plays back-to-back against the league’s current Top 25 teams.

Bay-Chafin 1 run (Callahan kick), 10:40. “The playbook was open, and we were dialing up the same things we were with Seth and Jarrett, because he’s good and he can deliver”, coach Art Briles said at a press conference of Johnson, who passed for 138 yards and two touchdowns against Oklahoma State.

FILE – In this Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, file photo, Baylor quarterback Chris Johnson (13) passes in … “But it’s just hard to be real effective in those conditions”.

Indeed, given those elements, it was a game that only a defensive-minded head coach like Patterson could appreciate.

(18) Oregon 52, Oregon State 42: In Eugene, Ore., Vernon Adams threw for 366 yards and three touchdowns and Oregon extended its winning streak to six games and closed out the regular season with a victory over Oregon State in the 119th Civil War game. Baylor ran 95 offensive plays so that means he made the stop on 24 percent of the plays. “We’re happy to be sitting where we’re at”.

The Huskers needed a win to assure bowl eligibility. It was a sense of relief knowing that he came out a victor in a clunker like that one.

“We ran a play we didn’t run all week and we basically ran a corner off the edge”, Patterson said.

There were a few coaching changes to take note of in the college football universe over the weekend – the biggest being Justin Fuente of Memphis jumping ship to replace Frank Beamer at Virginia Tech.