2010 season Stories - Turf Show Times
Mountain West 2010 Retrospective: The Middle’uns
Air Force, San Diego State, and BYU each beat all of the four bottom feeders in the conference. What San Diego State, BYU, and Air Force could not do was beat TCU or Utah, and that is what made them all "middle'uns" in 2010. AFA and SDSU would tell you they also both beat BYU, but the record...
Mountain West 2010 Retrospective: the Bottom Feeders
In many ways, 2010 was set up to be the Mountain West's coming-out year. Its champion had claimed the non-cartel autobid two years running, and its Big Three were bigger and better than ever (BYU's rebuild notwithstanding). And then the other feet (yes, that's plural) began to fall , and...
The 2010 Wimple Awards
The fourth annual Purple Wimple Awards: Purple Wimple Player of the Year: Andy Dalton Dalton embodied the Frogs' success since 2008 as no other. (Photo: Keith Robinson) No single Horned Frog since LT has come to define TCU's...
Dominance Ranking, 1999-2010
We've got twelve years' data now for the Dominance Ranking. In that span, the most dominant team is... Boise State. The Broncos' top finish (fifth year in a row in the top five-- the best such streak currently in progress) in 2010, coupled with Texas's low 2010 rank (75th) moved the blue-turfed...
2010 Dominance Ranking
The final Dominance Ranking (national rank in scoring offense + scoring defense) for 2010; bold indicates a conference's pre-season favorite. 1 Boise St. 2 TCU 3 Oregon 4 Ohio St. 5 Stanford 6 Alabama 7 Northern Ill. 8 Wisconsin 9 Nevada 9 UCF ...
Wrap up: in 2010 the Frogs got the monkey off their back
Way back on September 2nd (only in football does three months a few days seem way back) the Wimple offered, as a public service, five reasons to curb our collective enthusiasm for the newborn football season. Relax, was the message: 2009 rocked, and there're a lot of good reasons to expect 2010,...
Frog Defense Three-peats
TCU fielded the stingiest defense in the nation this season, for the third consecutive season. Since the NCAA has been keeping statistics (I don’t know how long that is, but the last eleven seasons are available for easy perusal at the NCAA’s website) no team has managed this feat. Also a...
TCU 21, Wisconsin 19
When a team gets out-gained, out-first-downed, runs 25% fewer plays than its opponent, but wins anyway, one assumes a gaggle of turnovers. Neither team committed one Saturday in the Rose Bowl. Instead, each team did what it did, and in the end, TCU was better. Wisconsin blew open massive holes...
Winning the Rose Bowl
is the biggest deal for TCU football since FDR was still within the two-term traditional limit. Wisconsin's QB got to know TCU's Tank Carder very well in the Rose Bowl. Photo: Mark Sanchez/AP
Conference Hopping, Part IV.2
As promised, here is another look at TCU's move to the Big East. The personnel issues that I highlit in my first take on the move have cleared, somewhat. West Virginia and Pittsburgh did indeed change coaching regimes. Pitt did so in the usual fashion-- firing its coach and hiring another, Mike...
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