Frogs and Beavers get together, oh my! ESPN, not Animal Planet, has brokered a matchup between the schools for the first Saturday in September at Cowboys stadium, to be the prime-time broadcast for that evening. Cowboys stadium will probably be configured to seat around 80,000, which is roughly twice as many as TCU’s home stadium seats at 44,000. Gary Patterson, TCU’s head coach, has seemingly brought home the bacon as the Mountain West conference champs, who went undefeated last year until losing to Boise State in the Affirmative Action Bowl, will get a double-dose of national exposure TWICE in the month of September.
Also scheduled for the Horny Toads three weeks later is a Friday night game at cross-town rival SMU in a game henceforth to be known as the Dallas/Tarrant County Bible Acronym Shoot-Out. This game will also be carried as the prime game by ESPN and will probably be the first significant exposure for the Mustangs since early in Ronald Regan’s first term. Odds are good that Craig James will be either in the announcing booth or the utility closet for this one.
Props to the Beavers for scheduling an away game against a non-BCS team, just like Oregon did last year by playing on the road in Boise State. TCU could be tough, as they are 13-3 in their last 16 games against BCS opponents. Alas, juvenile-humor enthusiasts are foiled yet again, as we seek to get the Beavers to travel to Columbia, SC, or vice versa, to play South Carolina for the first time, a matchup that similar to the Mayan calendar, will surely designate the end of the world.
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