TCU Horned Frogs Preview 2022: Season Prediction, Breakdown, Key Games, Players

TCU College Football Preview 2022: Team breakdown, season prediction, keys to the campaign, and what you need to know

TCU Horned Frogs Preview 2022: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the TCU season with what you need to know and keys to the season.


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Head Coach: Sonny Dykes, 1st year at TCU
12th year overall, 71-63. 2021 Preview
2021 Record: Overall: 5-7, Conference: 3-6
Offense, Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
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TCU Horned Frogs Preview 2022

It’s an interesting hire.

Gary Patterson was an institution at TCU. He was the one who helped take the program from life in the WAC, to Conference USA, to the Mountain West, to the Big 12.

Along the way, the program won a Rose Bowl, came within an eyelash of going to the first College Football Playoff, and was almost always able to punch above its weight considering it’s a relatively small, private research school dealing with the Texas and Oklahoma behemoths of the world.

Now Patterson is gone, and in comes Sonny Dykes, a good coach who won a WAC title at Louisiana Tech back in 2011, and …

That’s about it.

He had one winning season in four years at Cal, was solid at SMU – although his teams never finished higher than third in the divisional format and couldn’t push past fifth overall in the last two years – and now it’s up to him to take TCU back to a high level in the upcoming new world of the Big 12.

The guy knows offense, he sure knows Texas football and the landscape of the state, but can he do what he couldn’t at SMU and make his team stronger than Cincinnati, UCF, and Houston?

The offense was good last year and should be again with this coaching staff, but the success of the season depends on how quickly the defense can come around. This isn’t going to be a quick fix – there’s going to be work to do overall.

After going 16-18 over the last three seasons, TCU needs Dykes to stop the skid.

1996-1997 was the last time TCU had back-to-back losing seasons. There are too many good things in place for that to happen now, but under Patterson, TCU went from 5-6 in 2004 to 11-1 in 2005. It went from 4-8 in 2013 to 12-1 in 2014, and 6-7 in 2016 to 11-3 in 2017.

TCU will have a winning season, but more importantly, it needs to show under Dykes that it’s going to be a player in 2023 and beyond.

Offense, Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
TCU Top 10 Players | TCU Schedule & Analysis

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TCU Horned Frogs Top 10 Players: College Football Preview 2022

Who are the top 10 TCU players going into the 2022 college football season?

TCU Horned Frogs Preview 2022: Who are the top 10 players going into the season?


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TCU Horned Frogs: CFN College Football Preview 2021

College Football News Preview 2021: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the TCU season with what you need to know.

College Football News Preview 2021: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the TCU season with what you need to know.


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– What You Need To Know: Offense | Defense
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What Will Happen, Win Total Prediction
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2020 Record: 6-4 overall, 5-4 in Big 12
Head Coach: Gary Patterson, 21st year, 178-74
2020 CFN Final Ranking: 44
2020 CFN Preview Ranking: 34
2019 CFN Final Ranking: 82

TCU Horned Frogs College Football Preview 2021: Offense

The TCU offense was painfully inconsistent, but it got the job done enough to get to six wins and – for the most part – let the defense take over and win games. It averaged 411 yards and 31 points per game, but it failed to score more than 14 points three times – the team lost all three games.

Nine starters are expected to be back, there’s help coming in from the transfer portal, and there are enough good weapons in place to be more explosive, starting with …

Max Duggan. It’s never a positive to be totally reliant on a quarterback to carry your offense – you’re one play away from the attack changing its identity – but Duggan is growing into a special type of playmaker.

He was efficient enough as a passer to get by, and he led the team in rushing with 526 yards and ten scores. Bringing in Chandler Morris from Oklahoma was a good pull to battle for the No. 2 job.

The receiving corps lost TE Pro Wells – he led the team with three touchdown passes to the pros – but the receivers are there to do more.

Quentin Johnson averaged over 22 yards per catch and led the way with 487 yards, and Taye Barber is a decent midrange option who came up with a team-high 31 grabs.

The offensive line is a bit of a sticking point. It was great for the running game that led the Big 12 – Duggan had a lot to to with that – but it struggled in pass protection. It loses starting tackle TJ Storment to Texas Tech and guard Austin Myers to Memphis, but it’s bringing in a few blockers from the transfer portal to go along with a decent base.

It would be nice if Duggan wasn’t the top runner, and TCU has a deep and talented group of backs to do more. Darwin Barlow led the RBs with 428 yards and four scores, but he’s in the transfer portal. However, Kendre Miller and Zach Evans each added over seven yards per carry and Emari Demercado became a factor at times.

– What You Need To Know: Defense
Top Players | Keys To The Season
What Will Happen, Win Total Prediction
TCU Schedule Analysis

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