No. 4 TCU Continues Homestand Versus BYU
10/11/2010 12:00:00 AM | Football
Oct. 11, 2010
TCU-BYU Game Notes
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Game No. 7
No. 4 TCU (6-0, 2-0) vs. BYU (2-4, 1-1)
Fort Worth, Texas -- Amon G. Carter Stadium (44,358)
Saturday, Oct. 16 -- 3 p.m. (CDT)
Television: VERSUS -- Joe Beninati (PBP), Kelly Stouffer (color), Lindsay Soto (sideline)
Radio: TCU/ISP Sports Network -- WBAP 820 AM and 96.7 FM, KTCU 88.7 FM, GoFrogs.com (Yahoo), Sirius 91, XM 242 [Brian Estridge (PBP), John Denton (color), Jeff Williams (sideline)]
Spanish - AM 1270 Univision Radio - Miguel Cruz (PBP), Elvis Gallegos (color)
ABOUT THE GAME
*No. 4 TCU, the only ranked team in Texas, continues its three-game homestand Saturday when it faces BYU.
*The Horned Frogs have the nation's No. 1 defense and have recorded back-to-back shutouts for the first time since a string of three consecutive blankings in 1955.
*TCU is 3-2 against BYU in Mountain West Conference play. This is only the third meeting on a Saturday. The teams played three straight years (2006-08) on a Thursday.
*In the three years it beat BYU, TCU went on to post an overall 34-4 record with a 23-1 league mark.
*The Frogs finished 19-7 overall and 10-6 in the MWC the two years they lost to BYU.
*Over the last six seasons, TCU is 28-1 in day games and 52-4 on Saturdays.
*TCU hasn't lost a Saturday home game since the 2004 season finale against Tulane.
THE WIN COLUMN
*The Frogs have a 19-game regular-season winning streak.
*TCU has won 20 of its last 21 overall games and is 32-3 in its last 35 contests.
*TCU has also won 19 of its last 20 conference games.
*TCU (29-3) is one of just four teams (Alabama 31-3, Boise State 31-1, Florida 30-4) to have at least 29 victories since the start of the 2008 season.
*Eleven of TCU's last 13 victories have been by at least 27 points. Twelve of the 13 wins are by 17 points or more.
GOOD STARTS
*TCU is 6-0 for the second straight year and fourth time in 11 seasons.
DEFENDING THEIR HOME
*TCU has a school record 17-game home winning streak. It's a mark that ranks third all-time in MWC history and is currently fourth-longest in the nation.
*In three home games this season, TCU has outscored its opponents in the first half by a 101-10 margin (35-7 vs. Tennessee Tech, 35-3 vs. Baylor, 31-0 vs. Wyoming).
*In its last seven home dates, TCU has allowed just seven touchdowns and has outscored its opponents 343-61 (an average margin of 49-9).
*Since 1999, TCU is 59-6 (.908) in its last 65 home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium.
SERIES NOTES
*BYU holds a 5-4 lead over TCU in a series that began with a 33-12 Frog win in Fort Worth in 1987. The Frogs are 2-3 versus the Cougars in Fort Worth and 2-2 in Provo.
*In MWC play, TCU is 1-1 at home against BYU and 2-1 in Provo.
*Last year's 38-7 TCU win marked the only time the Frogs and BYU met with each team nationally ranked in both the Associated Press and USA Today polls.
*Two of BYU's five home losses in the last six seasons are to TCU.
*Prior to 2005, TCU and BYU had not met since the 1996-97 campaigns when both schools were members of the Western Athletic Conference.
*A 51-50 overtime victory in Provo in 2005 represents the largest come-from-behind win in Gary Patterson's 10-year tenure as TCU's head coach. The Frogs trailed by 18 points, 34-16, with less than two minutes to play in the third quarter.
HOME SWEET METROPLEX
*Seven of TCU's opening eight games are in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Included in the total are five home contests, a road game at SMU in Dallas and a neutral-site meeting with Oregon State at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
*An Oct. 2 trip to Colorado State marked the Frogs' only time on an airplane in the opening eight weeks of the season.
