TCU’s 36 wins since Sonny Dykes arrived ahead of the 2022 season leads the Big 12 and the Horned Frogs remain the only active conference member with a win in the College Football Playoff. Yet, the program is 14-13 in conference play over the last three years while being plagued by turnovers and a weak running game. That’s led to losses against teams that TCU should beat, including a 6-6 Kansas State team in 2025 and defeats to UCF and Houston in 2024.
“I feel like in my career before the last couple of years that we didn’t lose games to teams we shouldn’t lose to,” Dykes told me on the magazine stop last week. “In the last couple of years, we’ve lost some games like that and that’s been very frustrating for me. That hasn’t been our M.O. in the past. That’s something we need to fix.”