The first point TCU coach Gary Patterson wanted to make at his midweek press conference Tuesday was simple.
“Every game past this point is a tough one,” he said.
He included Kansas.
Of course he included Kansas, the second-easiest team in the country to score on, the lowest-scoring offense in the Big 12, losers of five straight and winner just three times in its last 33 games.
In No. 4 TCU’s case, he should have. It’s the same Kansas that has played the Horned Frogs within an average of a touchdown the past five years.