TCU Adds Clemson To 2009 Non-Conference Slate
2/20/2009 12:00:00 AM | Football
Feb. 20, 2009
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The TCU football team has completed its 2009 non-conference schedule with the addition of a Sept. 26 game at Clemson, giving the Horned Frogs two ACC opponents in the upcoming campaign.
The Tigers were 7-6 in 2008, closing the year with a 26-21 loss to Nebraska in the Gator Bowl.
This year's game between TCU and Clemson comes 50 years after their first meeting, a 23-7 Tiger win over the seventh-ranked Frogs in the inaugural Bluebonnet Bowl in 1959.
TCU and Clemson will face each other for the fourth time overall and the first since the mid-1960s. The Tigers hold a 2-1 series lead. The Frogs won 14-10 in Fort Worth in 1964, before Clemson took a 3-0 victory in 1965 in TCU's only previous trip to Death Valley.
The Frogs visit Virginia on Sept. 12. TCU's lone previous contest against the Cavaliers was a 20-10 loss in the 1994 Independence Bowl. The Cavaliers will play at TCU in 2012.
Prior to this upcoming season, TCU had not faced an ACC opponent since 1997 when it dropped a 31-10 decision to North Carolina.
The addition of Clemson has moved TCU's home game with SMU from Sept. 26 to Oct. 3. The Frogs' complete Mountain West Conference schedule will be announced by the league office around April 1.
TCU closed the 2008 season with an 11-2 record and a No. 7 ranking in final polls by the Associated Press and USA Today. TCU's No. 7 ranking was its highest in a season-ending poll since 1959, when the Frogs and Clemson met in the Bluebonnet Bowl. At the time, final polls were done before bowl games.
Under head coach Gary Patterson, the Frogs have won at least 10 games in five of the last seven campaigns with four 11-win seasons (2003, 2005, 2006, 2008).
TCU is 11-3 in its last 14 games against teams from conferences with automatic BCS bids.
TCU's 2009 Non-Conference Football Schedule
Sept. 12 - at Virginia
Sept. 19 - Texas State
Sept. 26 - at Clemson
Oct. 3 - SMU
