Let’s just say the thing: HVL’s time at LSU was really rough to watch. She seemingly spent much of her season playing in a system that didn’t suit her, and it wasn’t surprising that she transferred earlier this year. The question remained if Van Lith would also fit with TCU. However, it seems that she’s catching her stride now.
Hailey and teammate Sedona Prince went to work against The Pack. Prince had 31 points and 16 rebounds, and Van Lith had an excellent 12-point second half that pushed her to 18 points and 10 assists for the day. Afterward, HVL cried when she realized she had her first-ever double-double. In a tender moment, she was immediately embraced by head coach Mark Campbell, who said, “The playmaker. She’s been unleashed. Good job. You’re just getting started, kiddo.”
The Kansas City #Chiefs could target TCU Horned Frogs wide receiver Savion Williams in the 2025 NFL draft.
Trading for DeAndre Hopkins added some fangs to a depleted Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver room, but the defending Super Bowl champions still need to attack the position this offseason.
TCU Horned Frogs wideout Savion Williams offers the elite athletic traits and unique alignment versatility to add a new dynamic to Kansas Cityâs offense.
Williams possesses one of the most unique athletic profiles in the 2025 NFL draft. According to Senior Bowl Director Jim Nagyâs verified measurements, Williams is 6’3 3/4″ and 228 lbs. with arms that extend past 33 inches. The Horned Frogs recently found success lining Williams up in the backfield for handoffs and routes.
TCU WR Savion Williams is a playmaker! Listed as, 6’5 225 pounds w/clear alignment versatility! pic.twitter.com/adZ0mBXAvF
Despite his size, Williams is an explosive athlete with elite speed. According to Reel Analytics, he reached a top speed of 21.7 miles per hour on a 75-yard receiving touchdown against Texas Tech earlier this year. Bruce Feldman for The Athletic claimed several of Williamsâ top athletic feats include hitting 22.5 miles per hour, squatting 600 lbs. and posting 40 inches in the vertical jump.
Williamsâ fluidity pops for an athlete with his size. He makes some sharp cuts in his routes with impressive deceleration and tight turns. He dominates at the catch point, hauling in more than 70% of his contested catch attempts. Williamsâ vertical, catch radius and ball tracking make him a red zone menace.
Williams makes his best contributions with the ball in his hands, which is why TCU moved him to a hybrid role. His route tree needs development, and he struggles to stack corners downfield despite his blazing top speed. Williams is a better pure athlete than true receiver at this point in his development.
TCU plays 3-6 Oklahoma State at home on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 6:00 p.m. CST. The Cowboys dropped their last six games after starting the season 3-0. TCUâs last three games all came down to single-score differentials.
Check out this video of #Jayhawks RB Daniel Hishaw Jr. scoring a touchdown during Kansas’ matchup against the TCU at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Kansas City Chiefs won’t be playing at Arrowhead Stadium this weekend, but the Kansas Jayhawks are doing their best to put on a show for fans in the defending Super Bowl champions’ absence.
The Jayhawks entered their matchup against the TCU Horned Frogs with a chip on their shoulders after a disappointing 1-3 start to their 2024 season.
Kansas put together an impressive showing in the first half of their tilt against TCU and opened up the third quarter with a six-minute drive that ended with a touchdown scored by running back Daniel Hishaw Jr.
Check out this video of the speedster’s score that gave the Jayhawks a lead early in the second half:
Hishaw, who joined Kansas in 2020, is part of the Jayhawks’ outstanding ground game, which is usually spearheaded by star running back Devin Neal.
If Hishaw and Neal can continue to dominate the Horned Frogs through the rest of this game, the Jayhawks should be able to secure victory at Arrowhead Stadium.
Kansas is off to an almost-perfect start in Saturday’s game, and if Neal can continue to make his presence felt against TCU’s defense, the Jayhawks may walk out of Arrowhead Stadium with a win.
Neither Kansas or TCU look great so far this year, but Week 5 is redemption time for one of these Big 12 programs.
A college football sicko is someone who watches everything, and follows the storylines everywhere. Even if it means watching “bad” football, a sicko finds the storylines and the stakes playing out on the field.
The âSickos Onlyâ Big 12 Game of the Week is between the TCU Horned Frogs and Kansas Jayhawks. TCU is 2-2 and coming off of an embarrassing loss last week to SMU, while Kansas is 1-3 with no wins over FBS competition this year.
This game is, understandably, on ESPN+ at 3:30 PM ET, but you will want to keep an eye on it because of the implications it can have on college football as early as Monday.Â
There is not a pair of teams in the Big 12 with a wilder roller coaster over the last 24 months than head coach Sonny Dykesâ TCU Horned Frogs and head coach Lance Leipoldâs Kansas Jayhawks. But College Football Playoff appearance and historic program turnaround aside, Saturdayâs Big 12 matchup is between two teams that have simply not played well this year⌠even though they were supposed to be improved.
TCU did not start the year ranked, but all reporting in the offseason indicated they were focused on getting back to the top of the Big 12. Meanwhile, Kansas was 8-36 between 2018-2021. But under Lance Leipold Kansas saw improvement every year, from 2-10 in 2021 to 6-7 in 2022, then to 9-4 in 2023. This time a year ago, Leipold was a name thrown around premier programs that needed new coaches. Now? It feels like everyoneâs figured him out. Â
What makes this a game fans canât overlook is that the losing teamâs coach is going to be on the hot seat Monday. The winner? Theyâve got a conference win under their belt and are building the program back up. The losing coach is just a loser, but the winning coach? They “navigated adversity.”
Even amidst their struggles, TCU and quarterback Josh Hoover flaunt a prolific offense. The Horned Frogs have 20 touchdowns in 4 games, but only two wins. Further, the losses have been embarrassing. Falling apart vs UCF was only trumped by getting blown out by cross-metroplex rival SMU. The cherry on top? Watching Coach Dykes ushered off the field in Dallas after getting ejected. Kansas, led by quarterback Jalon Daniels, entered the year as a dark-horse Big 12 contender but presently would settle for winning a Big 12 game. Daniels is a true dual-threat quarterback, and Kansas will need to put a lot on his shoulders to pull this one out.Â
Parkerâs Pick: TCU. While they arenât the CFP team of 2022, they have shown the ability to play FBS football⌠and that may be all it takes this weekend.
When will college football learn not to pick fights with broadcast partners?
Whew, buddy, the pettiness escalated quickly across college football in Week 4.
Maybe we should’ve seen this coming. After all, this is the point in the season where teams start to figure out who’s for real (Tennessee) and who can start focusing on the recruiting trail (NC State).
But you’d think after the mini Rivalry Week that took over Week 3 the temperature would’ve cooled off a bit last Saturday. Nope. Despite the Calgorithm running into a few coding errors in Tallahassee, Week 4 brought out some elite nastiness.
Strap in for some schadenfreude as we take our weekly trip around college football’s most online moments.
TCU trolling The CW backfires
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There is one hard and fast rule in college football these days, and it is do not bite the TV networks. These executives will not hesitate to organize another round of realignment, and the last thing you want to do is get on their bad side.
Which is to say TCU should’ve known better than to get petty with the network that aired Gossip Girl. When the Horned Frogs’ social team found out their rivalry game against SMU was going to be broadcast on The CW, it mocked the ACC and its broadcast partner with a “This is SportsCenter” spoof.
TCU got boat-raced at SMU, 66-42, with current Horned Frogs (and former Mustangs) coach Sonny Dykes ejected early in the second half. And then it was The CW’s turn to beat up on TCU.
Oh yeah, this was rivalry game as well, so SMU got in plenty of shots on social media as well â including a quick screengrab of an FTW blog about TCU’s campus looking like a La Quinta Inn.
Let’s start with the obvious. Touting the Hugh Freeze at Auburn with the fact he beat Nick Saban twice (at previous stops) only for Saban to retire is the type of thing you expect from an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Now, not even two full years into Freeze’s tenure at Auburn, the miscalculated hire continues to look worse and worse. After Saturday’s home loss to Arkansas, Freeze looked for anyone left to throw under the bus. The night ended with a Greyhound driven by Freeze’s former Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace speeding right over him instead.
During Freeze’s postgame press conference, aside from blaming his players, he also made this bold claim:
âI mean no offense whatsoever to at all to Arkansas or to Cal. I love Sam Pittman; I hope he wins the rest of his games. But the hard truth is if we play them nine more times, we beat them nine times,â Freeze said.
We’re sure the was similarly no offense taken by Freeze when Arkansas responded with this subtweet:
The Southland Conference wants no part of the SEC’s trash
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Saturday’s matchup between 1-2 Florida and 1-2 Mississippi State was technically an SEC game, but it couldn’t hide from the fact that these are two of the most embarrassing programs in the Power Four at the moment.
(Granted the Bulldogs are at least starting to rebuild in Year 1 with Jeff Lebby, and the Gators have yet to move on from Bill Napier.)
Still, these are two SEC teams! Surely any conference would want them, right? Right?
Thanksgiving with the Manning family should be pretty entertaining this year. Surely someone will bring up the fact that Eli made his starting debut at Ole Miss against Murray State.
Did nobody learn anything from our still off-the-grid friend @321nole? Don’t make a bet on college football against yourself â especially when the wager depends on graphic bodily harm. Especially, especially when watching your team play each week already does more than enough damage.
All we’ll say is that a K-State fan promised to ingest a Taco Bell product through an orifice other than their mouth if the Wildcats lost to the Cougars.
After BYU’s win, the team’s social media admin had only one thing to say:
ESPN announced that the Kansas Jayhawks’ matchup against the TCU Horned Frogs at Arrowhead Stadium will kick off at 2:30 PM CST on Saturday.
The Kansas Jayhawks are hoping to bounce back from three brutal losses in a row on Saturday when they host the TCU Horned Frogs at Arrowhead Stadium.
The University of Kansas is currently undergoing renovations to the David Booth Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, which is expected to go well into 2025. Luckily for the Jayhawks, Kansas City Chiefs executives offered Arrowhead Stadium as a temporary home for the 2024 season.
On Saturday, Kansas will look to secure their second victory of the season against a formidable TCU team.
Details of the game were finally announced after the start time of Saturday’s game was left up in the air.
Check out all the important information in a tweet by Kansas Football’s official account:
The Jayhawks started their 2024 season with high expectations after two straight bowl game appearances during head coach Lance Leiopld’s tenure.
Kansas fans hope that dual-threat quarterback Jalon Daniels can finally settle into place and play at a high level. If the senior signal-caller can step up and running back Devin Neal continues to perform at an elite level, the Jayhawks may be able to walk out of Arrowhead with a victory.
What’s worse than playing on the CW? Losing to your rival and getting ejected on the CW.
Earlier this week, TCU footballâs social media account posted a video that contained complaints about having to play on the CW.
If playing on the CW is deemed as bad or less-than, you know whatâs worse? Losing to your rival by double-digits and having your head coach ejected on the CW.
Thatâs what happened in the third quarter of the Iron Skillet matchup on Saturday, when TCU coach Sonny Dykes was tossed out of the game by referees after he picked up two unsportsmanlike penalties as his Horned Frogs trailed the Mustangs by 20 points.
As Dykes â who coached SMU from 2018 to 2021 before pulling a heel-turn by taking the TCU gig â walked off the field, he raised his fists and pumped them towards the crowd, drawing a mix of boos and cheers.
âTCU wide receiver Jordyn Bailey took the opening kickoff the distance for a touchdown, but it was ultimately called back for holding. That play sparked a reaction from Dykes, who got back-to-back unsportsmanlike conduct penalties and was ejected from the game at the 14:36 mark of the third quarter.â
Quentin Johnston’s career day against the Panthers was a long time coming.
Quentin Johnston’s career day against the Panthers was a long time coming.
Johnston, the Chargers’ first-round pick last year, struggled in Year 1. His rookie campaign was littered with dropped passes and separation struggles.
After showing signs of improvement in the spring and summer, it carried over to live-game action.
Johnston had two touchdown catches, tying the amount he had in 2023.
His first score went for 29 yards on Los Angeles’ opening drive. With Jaycee Horn in coverage, Johnston made a great adjustment to the football, reaching out to reel it in.
In the second quarter, Johnston was left wide open in the back of the end zone in a busted coverage by Carolina.
Johnston finished the game as the leader in receptions and receiving yards with five catches for 51 yards.
After the game, Jim Harbaugh heaped high praise on Johnston.
“Maybe nobody more excited for than Quentin Johnston,” Harbaugh said. “Everybody on the team really likes Q, loves him, respects him. Probably most of all because he’s kind of been picked on by a lot of people.
“It doesn’t faze him, he just keeps doing him and he works on stuff he needs to get better at,” Harbaugh added. “Most important part, he doesn’t ever get the big head. Just keep doing you Q.”
For his performance, Johnston received a game ball from Harbaugh in the locker room.
“That’s a great feeling,” Johnston said about receiving the game ball. “At this level it’s an achievement, it’s not always easy having big games like that.
“I just have to take that into account, be proud of it for this moment and keep moving forward and take that on for the rest of the season,” Johnston added.
247 Sports did a team talent composite for the 2024 season. The Big 12 did not have a single team listed in the Top 20.
When the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners left the Big 12, the big question was whether the conference could keep up with the rest of the country. The 2024 season is the first without those two powerhouse programs, and football fans are about to find out.
247Sports did some work on a team talent composite for the 2024 season. It was a little jarring that the Big 12 did not have a single team in the top 20, or even top 25. These rankings were based on recruiting talent in college based on the number of commits, 5-star, 4-star, and 3-star athletes.
The 2024 Team Talent Composite is here đ¨
Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State take the top 3⣠spots.
The TCU Horned Frogs were the top team in the Big 12, coming in at 28th. Arizona State and Colorado were next at 30th and 31st. Interestingly, all three – TCU, Arizona State, and Colorado are not projected at the top of the Big 12. Playing freshmen does not always lead to winning big college football games.
Central Florida and Utah came in next at 32 and 33, while Texas Tech was listed at 38th. Baylor and Kansas were also in the top 50, at 44th and 49th respectively.
