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#14 TCU Set For AdvoCare Showdown vs. #4 Ohio State
9/11/2018 8:01:00 AM | Football
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Date: Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Arlington, Texas
Venue: AT&T Stadium (64,167)
Series Record: Ohio State leads 4-1-1
Last Meeting: Ohio State won 37-3 in 1973
TV: ABC
Talent: Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Maria Taylor
Radio: WBAP 820 AM, KTCU 88.7 FM, SiriusXM 84
Talent: Brian Estridge, John Denton, Landry Burdine
Spanish Radio: KFZO 99.1 FM
Talent: Miguel Cruz, Elvis Gallegos
ABOUT THE GAME
- No. 15 TCU will travel 18 miles to AT&T Stadium in Arlington to face No. 4 Ohio State in the AdvoCare Showdown.
- Since 2005, TCU is 5-5 in its last 10 games versus top-five ranked opponents with only two of those contests at home.
- ESPN's College GameDay will take place on the TCU campus Saturday morning. The Horned Frogs are 6-0 all-time when GameDay has been present, the most wins by any school without a loss in the show's history. TCU is hosting GameDay for the second straight year and third time overall.
- TCU's 44-17 record (.721) in road and neutral-site games since 2009 is the third-best mark nationally.
- TCU will play at AT&T Stadium for the fifth time in nine seasons.
- The Horned Frogs have opened with a 2-0 record for the 11th time in 18 seasons under head coach Gary Patterson. TCU is looking to go 3-0 for the 10th time with Patterson.
- The Horned Frogs' honorary captains for Saturday will be TCU greats Jack Spikes and LaDainian Tomlinson. Spikes was an All-America fullback (1957-59) who scored a touchdown in TCU's 18-14 win at Ohio State in 1957, while Tomlinson is in the College Football and Pro Football Hall of Fame. He serves on the TCU Board of Trustees.
- Patterson is the only active college football head coach to have coached a Pro Football Hall of Famer (Tomlinson) at his current school.
PATTERSON VERSUS THE BIG TEN
- TCU is 5-1 versus Big Ten opponents under Gary Patterson.
- The Horned Frogs' most recent game against a Big Ten team was a 23-17 victory at Minnesota in the 2015 season opener.
- Among the Horned Frogs' Big Ten victories under Patterson was a 21-19 decision over Wisconsin in the 2011 Rose Bowl to cap a 13-0 season.
- TCU has a home-and-home series with Purdue beginning next season in West Lafayette, Ind.
SERIES HISTORY
- TCU and Ohio State are meeting for the seventh time in their history and first time since 1973.
- The Buckeyes hold a 4-1-1 series edge with all six previous meetings being in Columbus.
- The Horned Frogs' lone victory was an 18-14 decision in 1957.
- The first meeting between the schools was a 14-0 Ohio State win in 1937, the year before TCU won its second national championship in four years behind 1938 Heisman Trophy winner Davey O'Brien.
BACK IN AT&T STADIUM
- TCU will be playing at AT&T Stadium for the fifth time since 2010.
- The Horned Frogs are 2-2 at AT&T Stadium. Their most recent contest was last year's Big 12 Championship Game versus Oklahoma.
- TCU defeated No. 24 Oregon State, 30-21, in the 2010 Cowboys Classic as well as posting a 38-28 win over BYU in 2011. TCU dropped a 37-27 decision to No. 12 LSU in the 2013 Cowboys Classic.
CONFERENCE RIVALS
- TCU and Ohio State are conference rivals in rifle.
- The Horned Frogs and Buckeyes compete in the Patriot Rifle Conference. Other member schools are Air Force, Alaska, Nevada and UTEP.
TCU NOTABLES
- TCU is one of just five programs nationally to finish in the top 10 of the final polls at least three times in the last four seasons. The others are Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma.
- Over the last four seasons, the Horned Frogs' 42-13 overall record and 26-10 conference mark both rank second in the Big 12.
- Gary Patterson's 18 seasons as TCU's head coach are more than the combined tenures of the 11 other FBS head coaches in the state of Texas.
- Under Patterson, TCU has posted seven top-10 finishes and 11 in the top 25. The Horned Frogs have won at least 11 games in 10 of the last 15 seasons.
- Ten of TCU's 12 regular-season games will be played in the state of Texas. The Horned Frogs will not leave the state until their first flight of the season Oct. 26 for a game at Kansas.
- The Horned Frogs' 97 points equal their best output in the opening two games under Patterson.
- Shawn Robinson is the first TCU quarterback to win his first three starts since Jeff Ballard posted 11 straight victories from 2005-06.
- KaVontae Turpin's 78-yard punt return for a touchdown against SMU made him TCU's career leader in punt returns for a score (4) as well as special teams touchdowns (5).
- In their last three games, the Horned Frogs have had three different players return punts for touchdowns. Since 1996, TCU is the only FBS school to accomplish the feat.
