TCU Horned Frogs football
TCU Horned Frogs football | |||
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First season | 1896 | ||
Athletic director | Jeremiah Donati | ||
Head coach | Sonny Dykes 2nd season, 18–9 (.667) | ||
Stadium | Amon G. Carter Stadium (capacity: 47,000) | ||
Field surface | Grass/Turf | ||
Location | Fort Worth, Texas | ||
NCAA division | Division I FBS | ||
Conference | Big 12 | ||
Past conferences | TIAA (1914–1920) Southwest Conference (1923–1995) WAC (1996–2000) C-USA (2001–2004) Mountain West (2005–2011) | ||
All-time record | 685–574–57 [1] (.542) | ||
Bowl record | 17–16–1 (.515) | ||
Playoff appearances | 1 (2022) | ||
Playoff record | 1–1 | ||
Claimed national titles | 2 (1935, 1938)[2] | ||
Unclaimed national titles | 1 (2010)[3] | ||
National finalist | 1 (2022) | ||
Conference titles | 18 (1920, 1929, 1932, 1938, 1944, 1951, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014) | ||
Rivalries | Baylor (rivalry) SMU (rivalry) Texas (rivalry) Texas A&M (rivalry; dormant) Texas Tech (rivalry) | ||
Heisman winners | Davey O'Brien – 1938 | ||
Consensus All-Americans | 17[4] | ||
Current uniform | |||
Colors | Purple and white[5] | ||
Fight song | TCU March | ||
Mascot | Super Frog | ||
Website | GoFrogs.com |
The TCU Horned Frogs football team represents Texas Christian University (TCU) in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The Horned Frogs play their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth. TCU began playing football in 1896 and has been a member of the Big 12 Conference since 2012.
The Horned Frogs claim national championships in 1935 and 1938, when they were led by Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Sammy Baugh and Heisman Trophy winner Davey O'Brien, respectively. TCU has had six other Heisman finalists. In addition to Baugh and O'Brien, TCU has had six other former players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Following decades of futility during the late 20th century, TCU returned to national prominence under head coach Dennis Franchione (1998-2000). Franchione led the Horned Frogs to their first bowl game win and AP poll finish since the 1950s. TCU enjoyed further success under Franchione's successor, Gary Patterson (2001-2021). Patterson led the Horned Frogs to ten seasons of 11 or more wins, including a perfect 2010 season, six AP top 10 finishes, and a share of the 2014 Big 12 conference championship. Sonny Dykes would replace Patterson in 2022 and lead TCU to their first College Football Playoff berth. They defeated Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl semifinal and advanced to the national championship, where they lost to Georgia.
TCU ranks 4th all time in final AP poll points among private schools, behind Notre Dame, USC, and Miami-FL.[6] The Horned Frogs are also one of only four FBS teams to have played in all six College Football Playoff Bowls, winning all but the Orange.[citation needed]
History
Early history (1896–1982)
TCU's first year of football started on December 7, 1896, when it went by the name
In a TCU Stadium that seated 30,000 spectators, over 36,000 wildly excited Texans and visitors from every corner of the map packed, jammed, and fought their way into every square foot of standing and seating space to see one of the greatest football games ever played…this tense, keyed up crowd even leaped the wire fences from the top of automobiles...[12]
SMU scored the first 14 points of the game. TCU, led by
When Dutch Meyer retired, his backfield assistant, Abe Martin, became head coach at TCU. One of his three tries at a SWC title came in 1958. The Frogs only losses were to Iowa by a score of 0–17 and at No. 18 SMU, 13–20.[18] The 1958 season ended in a scoreless tie against the Air Force Falcons in the 1959 Cotton Bowl Classic. Martin-led TCU teams amassed a 1–3–1 record in bowl games. The lone win came in the 1957 Cotton Bowl Classic against a Jim Brown-led Syracuse team in front of 68,000 spectators.[19] A blocked extra-point attempt was the difference in the game and allowed the Horned Frogs to win 28–27.[20] After TCU won the 1959 SWC championship, the Horned Frogs did not earn another share of the conference title for 20 years. During this time, TCU played the role of the underdog. In 1961, Bill Van Fleet of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram called the Horned Frogs' 6–0 win at then-No. 1 Texas, "the season's greatest upset of the year."[17] In 1965, TCU traveled to El Paso to play in the Sun Bowl against UTEP; the Frogs lost[18] 13–12.
The subpar results of Martin's last eight seasons would become the norm for TCU for most of the next quarter century. Martin retired in 1966 to focus on his role as athletic director, and the state of football at TCU declined in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. Coaches Fred Taylor, Jim Pittman, and Billy Tohill showed limited success from 1967 until 1973. Pittman had a .500 (3–3–1) record in his lone season when he succumbed to a sideline heart attack at Baylor in game eight of 1971. The Horned Frogs bottomed out in the second half of the 1970s. Under Coach
Jim Wacker era (1983–1991)
TCU would have a successful year in 1984 under coach Jim Wacker. That year TCU leaned on All-American running back Kenneth Davis. The squad started the season 8–0 finishing the regular season with three losses. The Frogs got invited to the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston that year to play the West Virginia Mountaineers, their first bowl appearance in 20 years. The Frogs would lose to the Mountaineers 31–14 and finish with a record of 8–4. TCU wouldn't attend another bowl game until the 1994 Independence Bowl.
TCU had very high hopes for 1985. Davis had been a finalist for the Heisman Trophy in 1984, and was one of the early favorites to win it in 1985. However, for all intents and purposes, the Horned Frogs' season ended a few days after the first game when Wacker discovered that several players, including Davis, had been benefiting from a payment plan in violation of NCAA rules. Wacker promptly kicked the players off the team and self-reported the infractions to the NCAA. The Frogs collapsed to a 3–8 record, including a winless SWC slate. In 1986, the NCAA slapped TCU with three years' probation and a ban on postseason play in the 1986 season. The most severe penalty in the long run, however, was a reduction to only 25 scholarships in 1987 and 1988. To this day, Horned Frog fans remain bitter that the NCAA imposed such a severe penalty given that the violations were voluntarily reported.[21] As heavy-handed as this penalty was, the NCAA seriously considered banning the Horned Frogs from bowl games and live television for three years and no new scholarships in 1987 or 1988. However, it praised Wacker for taking swift corrective action once the violations came to light, including kicking the players off the team when he was well aware that it would cripple the team for the upcoming season.[22] As it turned out, the penalties that were imposed were severe enough that TCU would need the rest of the 1980s and most of the 1990s to recover; they would only have three winning seasons from 1985 to 1997. TCU wouldn't have another winning season until 1991 (though coming close in 1987 and 1990). In 1991, the Horned Frogs finished 7–4, their first winning season in eight years. However, blowout losses to Texas and Texas A&M kept them out of a bowl. Following the season, Wacker left for Minnesota.
Pat Sullivan era (1992–1997)
In 1992, TCU hired
Dennis Franchione era (1998–2000)
Franchione inherited a program that had posted a very poor .323 winning percentage from 1966 to 1997.[25] However, he immediately turned the program around. Under Dennis Franchione, and with the stellar play of backs Tomlinson and Basil Mitchell, a 6–5 TCU defeated the USC Trojans in the 1998 Sun Bowl. The high point of the Franchione era was a 10–1 regular season record, a Mobile Alabama Bowl berth vs. Southern Miss and a season-ending No. 13 AP national ranking in 2000. In the three years Coach Franchione coached TCU, his bowl record was 2–0 and he accumulated three WAC Championships. Franchione coached the entire 2000 regular season, but left for the head coaching position at the University of Alabama prior to the 2000 Mobile Alabama Bowl.[26]
Gary Patterson era (2000–2021)
Defensive Coordinator
In
The Horned Frogs returned to national prominence in
Sonny Dykes era (2022–present)
On November 26, 2021, SMU head coach Sonny Dykes left to take over the rival TCU football program as head coach.[32] Dykes also has head coaching experience at Louisiana Tech and California and signed a six-year contract with the Horned Frogs.[33]
In his first season, Dykes went 12–0 before losing to Kansas State in the Big 12 Championship Game. The Horned Frogs finished 12–1 and ranked 3rd in the College Football Playoff rankings.[34] They beat the Michigan Wolverines in the college football semi-final on December 31, 2022, 51–45. They played the Georgia Bulldogs in the College Football Playoff National Championship on January 9, 2023, with the Bulldogs coming out victorious 65–7 to win their second title in a row.
Conference affiliations
Sources:[35]
- Independent(1896–1913, 1921–1922)
- Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1914–1920)
- Southwest Conference (1923–1995)
- Western Athletic Conference (1996–2000)
- Conference USA (2001–2004)
- Mountain West Conference (2005–2011)
- Big East Conference (Announced in 2010, Reneged in 2011 in favor of the Big 12)
- Big 12 Conference (2012–present)
Championships
National championships
TCU claims two
Year | Coach | Selectors | Record | Bowl | Opponent | Result | Final AP | Final Coaches |
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1935 | Dutch Meyer | AFCA, Williamson System[37] | 12–1 | Sugar Bowl | LSU | W 3–2 | – | – |
1938 | Dutch Meyer | AFCA, , Williamson System | 11–0 | Sugar Bowl | Carnegie Tech | W 15–7 | No. 1 | – |
Conference championships
TCU has won a combined 18 conference championships in six different conferences, with 12 outright and six shared.
Year | Conference | Coach | Overall record | Conference record |
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1920‡ | TIAA | W. L. Driver |
9–1 | 3–0 |
1929 | Southwest Conference | Francis Schmidt | 9–0–1 | 4–0–1 |
1932 | 10–0–1 | 6–0 | ||
1938 | Dutch Meyer | 11–0 | 6–0 | |
1944 | 7–3–1 | 3–1–1 | ||
1951 | 6–5 | 5–1 | ||
1955 | Abe Martin | 9–2 | 5–1 | |
1958 | 8–2–1 | 5–1 | ||
1959† | 8–3 | 5–1 | ||
1994† | Pat Sullivan | 7–5 | 4–3 | |
1999† | Western Athletic Conference | Dennis Franchione | 8–4 | 5–2 |
2000† | 10–2 | 7–1 | ||
2002† | Conference USA | Gary Patterson | 11–2 | 6–2 |
2005 | Mountain West Conference | 11–1 | 8–0 | |
2009 | 12–1 | 8–0 | ||
2010 | 13–0 | 8–0 | ||
2011 | 11–2 | 7–0 | ||
2014† | Big 12 Conference | 12–1 | 8–1 |
† Co-champions
‡ Note that the 1920 TIAA Championship was disputed between TCU and Austin College. Although TCU defeated the Kangaroos 9–7 on October 9, 1920, one of the TCU players, Allen Rowson, was declared ineligible after the 1920 season due to transfer rules.
Bowl games
In 2014, TCU became just the fourth program in history to have competed in all six of the modern day CFP bowls (Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Cotton, Peach and Orange). TCU joined Florida State, Miami (FL) and Tennessee as the only schools to have earned this distinction. TCU has a combined 6–5–1 record in those bowls, notching wins in all but the Orange.
Date | Coach | Bowl | Opponent | Result |
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January 1, 1921 | William L. Driver | Fort Worth Classic | Centre College | L 7–63 |
January 1, 1936 | Dutch Meyer | Sugar Bowl † | LSU | W 3–2 |
January 1, 1937 | Dutch Meyer | Cotton Bowl Classic † | Marquette | W 16–6 |
January 2, 1939 | Dutch Meyer | Sugar Bowl † | Carnegie Tech | W 15–7 |
January 1, 1942 | Dutch Meyer | Orange Bowl † | Georgia | L 26–40 |
January 1, 1945 | Dutch Meyer | Cotton Bowl Classic † | Oklahoma A&M | L 0–34 |
January 1, 1948 | Dutch Meyer | Delta Bowl | Ole Miss | L 9–13 |
January 1, 1952 | Dutch Meyer | Cotton Bowl Classic † | Kentucky | L 7–20 |
January 2, 1956 | Abe Martin | Cotton Bowl Classic † | Ole Miss | L 13–14 |
January 1, 1957 | Abe Martin | Cotton Bowl Classic † | Syracuse | W 28–27 |
January 1, 1959 | Abe Martin | Cotton Bowl Classic † | Air Force | T 0–0 |
December 19, 1959 | Abe Martin | Bluebonnet Bowl | Clemson | L 7–23 |
December 31, 1965 | Abe Martin | Sun Bowl | Texas Western |
L 12–13 |
December 31, 1984 | Jim Wacker | Bluebonnet Bowl |
West Virginia | L 14–31 |
December 28, 1994 | Pat Sullivan | Independence Bowl | Virginia | L 10–20 |
December 31, 1998 | Dennis Franchione | Sun Bowl | USC | W 28–19 |
December 22, 1999 | Dennis Franchione | Mobile Alabama Bowl |
East Carolina | W 28–14 |
December 20, 2000 | Gary Patterson | Mobile Alabama Bowl |
Southern Miss | L 21–28 |
December 28, 2001 | Gary Patterson | Galleryfurniture.com Bowl | Texas A&M | L 9–28 |
December 31, 2002 | Gary Patterson | Liberty Bowl | Colorado State | W 17–3 |
December 23, 2003 | Gary Patterson | Fort Worth Bowl | Boise State | L 31–34 |
December 31, 2005 | Gary Patterson | Houston Bowl | Iowa State | W 27–24 |
December 19, 2006 | Gary Patterson | Poinsettia Bowl | NIU | W 37–7 |
December 28, 2007 | Gary Patterson | Texas Bowl | Houston | W 20–13 |
December 23, 2008 | Gary Patterson | Poinsettia Bowl | Boise State | W 17–16 |
January 4, 2010 | Gary Patterson | Fiesta Bowl † | Boise State | L 10–17 |
January 1, 2011 | Gary Patterson | Rose Bowl † | Wisconsin | W 21–19 |
December 21, 2011 | Gary Patterson | Poinsettia Bowl | Louisiana Tech | W 31–24 |
December 29, 2012 | Gary Patterson | Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl | Michigan State | L 16–17 |
December 31, 2014 | Gary Patterson | Peach Bowl † | Ole Miss | W 42–3 |
January 2, 2016 | Gary Patterson | Alamo Bowl | Oregon | W 47–41 |
December 30, 2016 | Gary Patterson | Liberty Bowl | Georgia | L 23–31 |
December 28, 2017 | Gary Patterson | Alamo Bowl | Stanford | W 39–37 |
December 26, 2018 | Gary Patterson | Cheez-It Bowl | California | W 10–7 OT |
December 31, 2022 | Sonny Dykes | Fiesta Bowl (CFP Semifinal) † | Michigan | W 51–45 |
January 9, 2023 | Sonny Dykes | CFP National Championship | Georgia | L 7–65 |
† New Year's Six bowl game
Head coaches
List of TCU head coaches.[42]
Years | Coach | Record | Pct. |
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1897 | Joe J. Field | 3–1 | .750 |
1898 | James Morrison | 1–3–1 | .300 |
1902 | H. E. Hildebrand | 0–5–1 | .083 |
1904 | C. E. Cronk | 1–4–1 | .250 |
1905–1907 | Emory J. Hyde | 10–11–2 | .478 |
1908–1909 | Jesse R. Langley | 11–5–1 | .676 |
1910 | Kemp Lewis | 2–6–1 | .278 |
1911 | Henry W. Lever | 4–5 | .444 |
1912 | Willis T. Stewart | 8–1 | .889 |
1913 | Fred Cahoon | 5–2–1 | .688 |
1914 | Stanley A. Boles | 4–4–2 | .500 |
1915 | Ewing Y. Freeland | 4–5 | .444 |
1916–1917 | Milton Daniel | 14–4–1 | .763 |
1918 | Ernest M. Tipton | 4–4 | .500 |
1919 | Ted D. Hackney | 1–7 | .125 |
1920–1921 | William L. Driver | 15–4–1 | .775 |
1922 | John McKnight | 2–5–3 | .350 |
1923–1928 | Matty Bell | 33–17–5 | .645 |
1929–1933 | Francis Schmidt | 46–6–5 | .848 |
1934–1952 | Dutch Meyer | 109–79–13 | .575 |
1953–1966 | Abe Martin | 74–64–7 | .534 |
1967–1970 | Fred Taylor | 15–25–1 | .378 |
1971 | Jim Pittman | 3–3–1 | .500 |
1971–1973 | Billy Tohill | 11–15 | .423 |
1974–1976 | Jim Shofner | 2–31 | .061 |
1977–1982 | F. A. Dry | 12–51–3 | .205 |
1983–1991 | Jim Wacker | 40–58–2 | .410 |
1992–1997 | Pat Sullivan | 24–42–1 | .366 |
1998–2000 | Dennis Franchione | 25–10 | .714 |
2000–2021 | Gary Patterson | 181-79 | .696 |
2022–present | Sonny Dykes | 13-2 | .867 |
Rivalries
Because TCU was a member of the Southwest Conference for 72 years, rivalries remain with many of the schools that once participated in that conference. Most of the former Southwest Conference members are located within the state of Texas.
SMU
This rivalry with SMU is prominent for both schools, as both are located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and were long-time members of the SWC before its dissolution. The SMU–TCU football game is called "The Battle for the Iron Skillet", with the winning team gaining possession of a ceremonial iron skillet. Since 1915, when SMU was founded and began football competition, the game has not been played in only four years when both fielded football teams—1919, 1920, 2006 and 2020. The schools are scheduled to compete through at least 2023. Because they are no longer members of the same conference, annual meetings may or may not be scheduled after 2023.[43]
TCU leads the series 51–42–7 through the 2021 season.[44]
Baylor
The TCU-
Appropriately, given the more than century-long history of this highly-competitive rivalry, the first game between TCU and Baylor, played October 27, 1899, ended in a scoreless tie. Each school achieved various period of dominance between 1899 and the breakup of the Southwest Conference at the conclusion of the 1995 season, but at the time the Southwest Conference disbanded, the Bears held only a slight 49–47–7 advantage. After a 10-year, post-Southwest Conference breakup hiatus, the series was renewed for 4 non-conference games in 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011. TCU, then a member of the Mountain West Conference, notched a 3–1 non-conference record over Baylor in these games.
TCU leads the series 56–53–7 through the 2020 season.[45]
Texas
Texas leads the series with TCU 64–28-1 through the 2022 season.[46]
Texas Tech
The football series with
After the collapse of the Southwest Conference, Texas Tech was the first of the schools that joined the Big 12 Conference in 1996 to schedule a non-conference game with TCU. This first post-Southwest Conference game between TCU and its former conference mate was played in the regular season in 2004. Prior to Texas Tech joining the SWC, a traveling trophy was exchanged between the Horned Frogs and Red Raiders. The trophy was of a miniature saddle and the game between the teams was dubbed "The West Texas Championship."[48] TCU and Texas Tech return to being conference mates, competing in football annually, in 2012. In 2014, 109 points combined was put up, in an 82–27 rout by TCU.
Texas Tech leads the series 32–29–3 through the 2021 season.[49]
Home stadium
The Horned Frogs have played their home football games at Amon G. Carter Stadium, located on the campus of TCU, since 1930.
Named for the famous Fort Worth newspaper magnate who made the original donation to finance the stadium, Amon G. Carter Stadium opened in 1930 with an original seating capacity of 22,000. The first game played in the stadium was in October, a 70–6 TCU victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks. Renovations in 1947 and 1955 added additional seating and an upper deck, which increased capacity to 46,083. In 1991, the upper deck seats were replaced by aluminum bleachers, which reduced its capacity to 44,008, and the artificial turf was replaced by natural grass at the request of the new coaching staff. The stadium remained in this configuration until 2010, when a major renovation reduced the entire stadium to its original lower bowl, before erecting a new stadium on the same site. The design of the current Amon Carter stadium was influenced heavily by the surrounding architecture of Fort Worth, with emphasis on Art Deco style. The Frogs opened the new stadium in time for the 2012 season.
The new Amon G. Carter Stadium features a natural grass field and a seating capacity of 45,000. Standing-room only concourses allow capacity to exceed this number when ticket demand exceeds seating availability. The record attendance is 50,307 which took place on November 14, 2009, when the Frogs played the then No. 16 ranked Utah Utes. The final score was 55–28 in favor of the Frogs. The 2012 renovation added a 54 ft. video board over the North endzone, with a smaller videoboard located in the Southeast corner.
Before Amon G. Carter Stadium, the Horned Frogs played their home games on campus at Clark Field, located at the current site of
Uniforms
Colors
TCU's school colors are purple and white. Historically, black has also featured prominently in the school's uniforms. As early as 1935 the football team wore black leather helmets with a purple stripe, or occasionally purple helmets with a black stripe. Jerseys were purple with white numbers were, worn with beige or khaki pants.
Beginning with the introduction of plastic helmets in the 1946 TCU dropped black from their uniforms and introduced a new purple helmet with a white stripe. The team's pants remained khaki colored until the 1950s, when they were changed to white.
During this period the exact shade of TCU purple varied wildly depending on the uniforms worn, though a royal purple was most common. In 1971 the school hired Jim Pittman as its head coach. Pittman had been an assistant at the
Beginning in 1998, TCU began once again incorporating black into the uniforms. The practice was started by Coach Franchione, who introduced a new helmet with black facemask, and purple jerseys with black pants. In 2012, the school debuted helmets which featured a black stripe in addition to the black facemask, reflecting the helmets worn during the TCU championship years of the 1930s. Several TCU helmets designs also feature a small red "blood stripe" in the middle of the central black stripe, a reference to how horned frogs can squirt blood from their eyes/forehead onto potential predators.
Helmets
TCU was the last school in college football to wear leather helmets, switching to hard plastic helmets in 1946. Prior to 1946, the TCU football team wore either black helmets with a purple stripe or purple helmets with a black stripe. Since the introduction of plastic, the TCU helmet has gone through a number of design changes.
In the 1950s, TCU wore a purple helmet with a white stripe down the middle. In 1954, a gray facemask was introduced, and in 1958, white numbers were added to the sides of the helmet.
In 1965, a new helmet was introduced featuring a purple shell and a white stylized
In 1977, the school introduced a "Flying TCU" logo, which remained on the helmets through the 1991 season. In 1992, new head coach Pat Sullivan introduced an arched TCU design, which eventually became the official logo of the school. This logo has been featured on most TCU helmets, sometimes with a white or gray horned frog underneath, ever since.
Individual awards
Retired numbers
No. | Player | Pos. | Tenure | Year ret. | Ref. |
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5 | LaDainian Tomlinson | RB | 1997–2000 | 2005 | [50] |
8 | Davey O'Brien | QB | 1935–38 | 1939 | [51][52] |
45 | Sammy Baugh | QB | 1934–36 | 1993 | [52] |
National awards
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Coaching awards
Jim Wacker, 1984
Gary Patterson, 2009, 2014 Gary Patterson, 2009
Gary Patterson, 2009, 2014
Gary Patterson, 2009, 2014 Gary Patterson, 2014
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Gary Patterson, 2009, 2014 Jim Wacker, 1984 Gary Patterson, 2009, 2014 Gary Patterson, 2009
Gary Patterson, 2014 Garrett Riley, 2022
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College Football Hall of Fame inductees
The following Horned Frogs have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame:
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AP First-Team All-Americans
Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all hometowns are in Texas.
Future non-conference opponents
Announced schedules as of June 24, 2021.[53]
2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
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at Stanford | at North Carolina | North Carolina | Stanford | at Duke | Duke | Purdue |
at SMU | Abilene Christian | Arkansas State |
Horned Frogs in professional football
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees
- Washington Redskins1937–1952
- Bob Lilly, DT (1980) Dallas Cowboys 1961–1974
- LaDainian Tomlinson, RB (2017) San Diego Chargers 2001–2009 New York Jets 2010–2011
National Football League Most Valuable Player award
- LaDainian Tomlinson, RB (2006) San Diego Chargers
Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award
- Larry Brown, CB (1996) Dallas Cowboys
Canadian Football League Most Outstanding Player award
- Casey Printers, QB (2004) BC Lions
Grey Cup Most Valuable Player award
- Edmonton Eskimos
Horned Frogs in the NFL
As of December 19, 2023, there are 19 former TCU Football players on
- Steve Avila, G Los Angeles Rams
- Ross Blacklock, DT Tennessee Titans
- Emari Demercado, RB Arizona Cardinals
- Andy Dalton, QB Carolina Panthers
- Derius Davis, WR Los Angeles Chargers
- Jerry Hughes, DE Houston Texans
- Quentin Johnston, WR Los Angeles Chargers
- Kendre Miller, RB New Orleans Saints
- Trevon Moehrig, S Las Vegas Raiders
- Lucas Niang, OT Kansas City Chiefs
- Joseph Noteboom, OT Los Angeles Rams
- Matt Pryor, G San Francisco 49ers
- Jalen Reagor, WR New England Patriots
- Austin Schlottmann, C Minnesota Vikings
- Ty Summers, LB New Orleans Saints
- Tre Tomlinson, CB Los Angeles Rams
- KaVontae Turpin, WR Dallas Cowboys
- Garret Wallow, LB Tennessee Titans
- Dee Winters, LB San Francisco 49ers
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