TCU vs Kansas State Prediction, Game Preview

TCU vs Kansas State game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 8 game on Saturday, October 22

TCU vs Kansas State prediction, game preview, how to watch. Week 8, Saturday, October 22


TCU vs Kansas State How To Watch

Date: Saturday, October 22
Game Time: 8:00 ET
Venue: Amon G Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, TX
How To Watch: FS1
Record: TCU (6-0), Kansas State (5-1)
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Why Kansas State Will Win

The Wildcats had two weeks off to rest up for this, and TCU has been through the ringer with nasty fights against Kansas and Oklahoma State.

Adaptable, Kansas State was able to get the running game going in shootouts over Oklahoma and Texas Tech, and it fought through a defensive fight to get by Iowa State 10-9. It’s going to be prepared for whatever is coming.

It helps that there aren’t a slew of mistakes. It’s the only team in college football that has yet to throw an interception.

The penalties are kept to a relative minimum, the O has turned it over just three times, and the defense takes care of the rest with third down stop after third down stop helped by enough of a pass rush to be consistently disruptive.

TCU doesn’t turn it over, either, but the D doesn’t come up with enough takeaways partly because the front is just okay at getting into the backfield.

However …

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Why TCU Will Win

The TCU offense is humming.

The passing game is averaging well over 300 yards over the last five games, the running game is rolling for over six yards per carry, and it all methodically works on the way to being third in the nation in total yards.

Veteran QB Max Duggan is Heisman-talk-worthy, hitting 70% of his passes with 16 touchdowns and just one interception, he’s running well as the steady leader who keeps coming through when needed.

The defense will give up yards in this – it allowed three touchdown runs in three of the last four games – but it’s been solid at keeping big passing games from being consistent.

However …

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What’s Going To Happen

No excuses – TCU has been brilliant – but …

Oklahoma QB Dillon Gabriel got knocked out of the game early, Kansas QB Jalon Daniels had to leave the game, and Oklahoma State QB Spencer Sanders was apparently playing with a shoulder injury. That obviously mattered, but none of those three starting quarterbacks play defense.

The Kansas State defense is good enough to hold serve to keep TCU from going off, but Duggan and company will keep pressing. This will be a wild back-and-forth fight coming down to who has the ball last.

The home team will.

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TCU vs Kansas State Prediction, Line

TCU 37, Kansas State 33
Line: TCU -3.5, o/u: 54.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 1.5
TCU vs Kansas State Must See Rating (out of 5): 4.5
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TCU vs Kansas State Prediction, Game Preview

TCU vs Kansas State prediction, game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might – or might not – win this Saturday.

TCU vs Kansas State prediction, game preview, how to watch: Saturday, October 30


TCU vs Kansas State How To Watch

Date: Saturday, October 30
Game Time: 3:30 ET
Venue: Bill Snyder Family Stadium, Manhattan, KS
How To Watch: ESPNU
Record: TCU (3-4), Kansas State (4-3)
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Why TCU Will Win

The offense works … usually.

The Horned Frogs hit 430 yards against everyone but Texas and West Virginia – both losses – and those two games came on the two worst rushing performances of the season.

It’s this simple. When TCU runs well, it wins. It needs to be able to grind, control the clock, and keep its defense off the field. Kansas State is 4-0 when allowing fewer than 130 yards, 0-3 when giving up more, and TCU has yet to run for fewer than 169 yards.

But …

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Why Kansas State Will Win

The TCU defense. It’s not good.

The Horned Frogs have allowed 200 yards rushing and passing in each of the last three games and over 400 total yards in all six games since the opener over Duquesne.

Kansas State pulled its season up out of the nosedive with a Matt-Wells-firing 25-24 win over Texas Tech thanks to one of the team’s best defensive performances of the season. The offense needs to crank it up here.

TCU can’t stop the run, it’s not generating any pressure into the backfield, and it’s not taking the ball away. Kansas State has to keep this conservative and pound, pound, pound away.

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What’s Going To Happen

TCU just can’t seem to overcome its defensive issues.

Neither team is playing all that well overall, but Kansas State at home should be able to get its offense going just enough to be more consistent. Expect an entertaining and close game, with TCU being able to come up with the one stop it needs.

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TCU vs Kansas State Prediction, Lines

Kansas State 34, TCU 30
Line: Kansas State -3.5, o/u: 58
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2

Must See Rating: 3

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