TCU will have the same quarterback rotation this week when the Frogs take on Big Ten opponent Purdue on Saturday according to head coach Gary Patterson.

Patterson acknowledged during his weekly media presser that fifth-year senior Alex Delton will start against the Boilermakers and true freshman Max Duggan will get some action as well. Patterson stated they’ll go with who’s hot.

“I think we’ll start out the same way and then we’ll have series,” Patterson said. “They both played, to be honest with you, they both played well and they both have strengths.”

In their opener against UAPB, Duggan put up the better stats by completing 16-of-23 passes for 165 yards with 1 touchdown. He also led the Frogs to their only three touchdown drives. Delton completed 10-of-22 passes but at least five of his incompletions were drops from the receivers. However, Delton also led the team in rushing with 67 yards on the ground.

There is improvement that can happen for both quarterbacks, but Patterson isn’t ready to tip his hand and let the opponents know where each need to improve. The coach says both have had good weeks of practices.

“I wouldn’t tell the opponent. Obviously we’ve got to get out of the huddle,” he said. “I don’t think there was any part of our team, period, that we didn’t feel like that we had to get better at some things. I think a lot of the people acted.”

Although TCU scored 39 points in their opener, they struggled scoring touchdowns in the red zone. In fact, on seven trips, the Frogs score just two touchdowns. Patterson said the red zone has to get better but also admitted the Frogs didn’t show much of their offense against UAPB.

“We did a little bit of it. It’s a really hard place to do when you get into the season because that’s a very physical 20 yards. But we did red-zone stuff,” he said. “The thing I think is going to help us is we didn’t run a lot of our red-zone offense.”

“We didn’t do as much down there as what we have the capability of doing. We knew these next couple of ball games were going to be big for us. The key was to get off to a fast start.”

All eyes will again be on both quarterbacks this Saturday and there’s even been talk around the program that the Frogs will stop utilizing two quarterbacks. Patterson knows that’s a hot topic among fans and media.

“I mean, I’ve got 50,000 armchair quarterbacks on how to do it,” he said. “The biggest thing is, obviously everybody would like to have one designated guy, one’s a true freshman, one’s a fifth-year senior. You keep everybody involved, there’s certain plays that some of them are better than others.”

Kickoff between TCU and Purdue will be at 6:30 p.m. and will be televised on the Big Ten Network.