For the first time this season, TCU is not the favorite going into a game. The No. 16 Horned Frogs are 12-point underdogs for their Big 12 opener Saturday at No. 6 Oklahoma State.
This will not come as a shock, but coach Gary Patterson is fine with it.
“I hate to tell you this,” he said Tuesday at his weekly press conference, “but maybe except for Jackson State, I haven’t thought I was favored yet.”
Patterson is not a comfortable front-runner. He needs something to chase, things to work on.
His coaching friends know this.