The No. 2 Wolverines are one of college football’s bluest blue-blood programs while the No. 3 Horned Frogs are the most unlikely team ever to reach the four-team College Football Playoff.
AP College Football Writer
The Horned Frogs were picked seventh in the Big 12 this season, their first under Dykes. Most of their players, including Heisman Trophy runner-up quarterback Max Duggan, have never played in a bowl game during their college careers. Under Patterson, TCU became a BCS buster. The Frogs played in a Fiesta Bowl and won a Rose Bowl. All that winning built credibility. TCU, finally, landed in the Big 12 in 2012, reuniting with many of its old Southwest Conference rivals.
“We’ve been through so much,” Avila said. “And I just feel like us being here and us having the season that we did, just proved a lot of people wrong.” Last year’s playoff appearance ended with a thud in the Orange Bowl for the Wolverines against eventual national champion Georgia. Oluwatimi, tackles Hayes and Karsen Barnhart, and guards Zak Zinter and Trevor Keegan average 308 pounds, but what makes them different from even the best Big 12 lines is they also are long and rangy.Offensive line coach Sherrone Moore is also Michigan’s co-offensive coordinator now, handling play-calling duties with Weiss. The two were promoted after Josh Gattis left for Miami following last season’s playoff appearance by the Wolverines that ended in an Orange Bowl semifinal loss to Georgia.
Those offenses often abandon the tight end position altogether, instead going with four or five wide receivers.“So, it’s really hard to watch the tape and say, ‘OK, this will definitely work, but this won’t,’” Weiss said about game planning for TCU.
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