Football

Patterson warns: If TCU not better, Arkansas could score 1,000 | Fort Worth Star Telegram

Patterson put some of the blame for TCU’s poor defensive showing on the coaching staff, as well as bad tackling.

“When you do that, you’re not going to give your kids a very good chance of being successful,” Patterson said Monday on the Big 12 coaches conference call with reporters. “Hopefully we’ll do a lot better job as a coaching staff of getting them put in position against Arkansas. If not, they’ll have 1,000 yards and 1,000 points. We’ve got to do a lot better job this week.”

Arkansas offensive coordinator Dan Enos on TCU: ‘It’s SEC football’ | Gridiron Now

Enos has mad respect for what Patterson has done defensively in his career.

“They’re obviously extremely well-coached,” Enos said. “They play their scheme, that 4-2-5 that Coach (Gary) Patterson kind of created way back when this thing all evolved. He’s kind of the guy that did it and very rarely can you say that in football these days.”

Big 12 Week 1 Power Rankings | ESPN

Texas sits at the top after a big win over Notre Dame, while TCU fell to No. 5.

The Horned Frogs overcame a 10-point deficit in the second quarter and led by just four points for a chunk of the fourth quarter against South Dakota State, an FCS team, before Kenny Hill threw for a score and ran for another to secure a 59-41 win. Hill enjoyed a nice TCU debut with 439 yards passing. KaVontae Turpin scored on an 81-yard punt return, and newcomer Taj Williams caught a touchdown. But it’s back to the drawing board for the TCU defense.

Network, announcers set for Arkansas-TCU | Arkansas Online

The game will be aired on ESPN, and starts at 6pm.

ESPN has assigned announcers Joe Tessitore (play-by-play), Todd Blackledge (color analyst) and Holly Rowe (sideline reporter) to work the game.

Texas’ victory ‘helps all of us’ in Big 12, TCU’s Patterson says | Fort Worth Star Telegram

Patterson knows that a strong Texas = a strong Big 12.