TCU’s record comeback snatches Alamo bowl victory

The Oregon Ducks led the Alamo Bowl 31-0 at halftime Saturday night, but TCU tied the record for the biggest comeback in bowl history thanks to fifth-year senior quarterback Bram Kohlhausen’s magnificent game in his first career start.

Two quarters, three overtimes and 57 total points later, Patterson stared gleefully into the ESPN camera after an improbable, irrational and somehow irrefutable 47-41 comeback win over Oregon.

Those two plays highlighted a TCU defensive effort that held OR to 43 yards of total offense in the second half and overtime after the Ducks had rolled up 376 in the first to take a 31-0 lead. During the three and a half regular season games Adams sat out due to injury this year, the Ducks played downright poor football. Hackenberg stayed in the game and threw four more passes, but grabbed his shoulder between plays. OR will win if Freeman gains 150-175 yards and finds the end zone.

The Oregon Ducks met the TCU Horned Frogs in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Saturday night in San Antonio.

In his final game in purple, in his home town of San Antonio, Aaron Green ran for 101 yards and a touchdown, and added 56 receiving yards, to lead the Frogs to victory.

The game will all but certainly go down as one of the greater moments in TCU football’s storied history.

Junior All-America linebacker Jaylon Smith, who suffered a “significant knee injury” during the Fiesta Bowl, according to coach Brian Kelly, has yet to announce his decision.

Jaden Oberkrom’s 22-yard field goal with 19 seconds left tied it, and TCU scored first in the first overtime when Kohlhausen hit Emanauel Porter for a 7-yard touchdown. That left backup quarterback Jeff Lockie to oversee Oregon’s offense holding a cushy 31-0 lead. A fumble on the ensuing kickoff set up a 2-yard touchdown run from Kohlhausen to make the score 31-17. Without starting quarterback Trevone Boykin, who was suspended after an arrest just two days before the game, the Frogs were able to muster enough energy to come back and stun the Ducks.

An Oregon official said there would be no immediate update on Adams’ condition.

Earlier in that season, the last time TCU didn’t go to a bowl game, the Frogs were shut out in the first half at Oklahoma in a 20-17 loss.

OR coach Mark Helfrich said that the loss can’t be blamed on one person.

Prukop passed for 3,025 yards and 28 touchdowns with 10 interceptions this season for the Big Sky’s Bobcats. “He was the one who showed me how to play like I did tonight”.

But his Alamo Bowl lasted only about 25 minutes before the senior quarterback was knocked from the game after a violent hit to the head. As overtime began OR won the toss and opted for Defense first.

Yet that pressure was missing in the second half and instead TCU applied all its force onto the Ducks defense before it broke in a 47-41 Alamo Bowl victory.

TCU and OR ranked third and fourth, respectively, in the nation in average yards per game.