LOS ANGELES -- TCU did not have a single player drafted in 2022. The Horned Frogs entered the season as 200-1 longshots to win the national title and were picked seventh in the preseason Big 12 poll. Just one season ago, they went 5-7 and fired the coach, Gary Patterson, who has a statue outside Amon G. Carter Stadium.
These aren't exactly the trappings of sudden championship contention. But on Monday against Georgia (7:30 p.m., ESPN), TCU is 60 minutes from becoming the most unlikely national champion in college football's modern era. In a sport long designed to favor bluebloods and big budgets, TCU's championship would cast it as a new-age Hoosiers for college football.