We’re not going to sit here and tell you that it’s likely that TCU will make the College Football Playoff. The Horned Frogs have fallen behind by 17 or more points in each of their last two games and have come back to win both. That doesn’t feel remotely sustainable, and it certainly suggests that when the Frogs go on the road (each of the team’s last two giant comebacks were at home), they will eventually stumble. They go to Austin to play the Texas Longhorns. They go to Waco to face Baylor.
They’ll probably lose one of those two games, maybe both.
Yet, right now, TCU has a better path to the College Football Playoff than one-loss USC.
Guess who is TCU’s offensive coordinator? Garrett Riley.
Lincoln Riley’s younger brother really could box him and USC out of the playoff: