FORT WORTH, Texas — The last time TCU played at Wyoming, the Horned Frogs lost. The last time they were 10-0, they lost.
Be assured that coach Gary Patterson has reminded his team of that 2007 trip to Laramie, where the fourth-ranked Horned Frogs play today. And the 2003 season, when they won their first 10 games before losing at Southern Miss, and even 2005, when after winning at Oklahoma to start the season they lost at SMU.
“We were quickly reminded,” defensive tackle Cory Grant said.
But this season is already much different. TCU has reached unprecedented heights while showing no signs of faltering.
The Frogs (6-0 Mountain West) are fourth in the BCS standings, higher than any team from a conference without an automatic bid has ever been this late in a season. Win their last two games and they likely play in one of the big-money bowl BCS games, and maybe even have a chance to be the first outsider to play for the national title.
They are coming off a 55-28 victory over Utah, when they built a 35-7 lead before a record home crowd of more than 50,000 against last season’s BCS buster. And there was an earlier 31-point victory at BYU, the other perennial top-25 team from the MWC.
Patterson is still cautious and reminding his team that they have to go on the road and “take the game.”
Yet he also realizes how close the Frogs are to accomplishing something special.
“We’ve been at this point in time,” Patterson said. “I don’t see why this football team would have a letdown.”
