TCU is the best team in the Big 12 heading into the 2018 college football season.
At least that's how Stewart Mandel of The Athletic feels about coach Gary Patterson's group.
In his latest preseason top 25 poll for the upcoming season, Mandel ranks the Horned Frogs as the eighth best team in the country. He sites the potential emergence of sophomore quarterback Shawn Robinson, as well as talented receiving corps and another stout defense.
While Patterson did bring in his strongest recruiting class in school history this past Spring, there are concerns about how TCU will replace several starters along the offensive line (a point which Mandel acknowledges).