TCU coach Sonny Dykes isn't big on playing the disrespect card or any other chip-on-your-shoulder motivation. If his players want to use it, that's their prerogative.
He prefers a more straightforward approach.
"We lost two of our last three games last year," Dykes said this week. "So I think [the players] are hungry and ready to get back out and win some football games."
Nevermind that those two games -- a 31-28 Big 12 title heartbreaker to Kansas State in overtime, and a 65-7 humbling by Georgia in the College Football Playoff National Championship -- just happened to be in huge games that the Frogs were never expected to reach (and were sandwiched on either end of a thrilling 51-45 semifinal win over Michigan in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl).