http://www.bevoball.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tcu_helmet-150×150.jpgWhile most of the chatter last week was around the 2012 SEC football schedules being released and who the Aggies will play in their inaugural year in the SEC, it was all but announced that Texas has a new Thanksgiving night foe. Yes, it appears that the Longhorns will play incoming Big XII newcomers TCU annually on Thanksgiving night. A worthy replacement of our friends in College Station? Not yet. Could be down the road though. TCU has better looking women. Listen, I grew up in Fort Worth and went to many Horned Frog football, basketball and baseball games (I even used to clean Amon Carter Stadium after home games with my high school baseball team) so I respect TCU for what they are. But they aren’t Texas and they aren’t A&M. TCU is a small, private university and has always thought it could play with the big boys. They have a had players such as Davy O’Brien, Sammy Baugh, Bob Lilly and LaDainian Tomlinson. Big names for a small school, we know.
Texas is 61-20-1 against TCU all time. Texas first played TCU back in 1897 and last met the Horned Frogs in 2007. The two schools played together in the Southwest conference for many years and in fact, TCU won a national championship in 1938 under head coach Dutch Meyer. In recent years TCU has had a lot of success on the football field under head coach Gary Patterson. They beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl last year (2nd straight BCS Bowl appearance) and finished 13-0 and finished with a #2 ranking. This year they finished 11-2 with a win over Louisiana Tech in the Poinsettia Bowl.
While the Thanksgiving night pairing has not been finalized, we expect it to be soon. Texas fans have lobbied for the Longhorns to play Notre Dame instead, but it has not materialized. A Texas/TCU Thanksgiving night ticket will be fun and entertaining but it still will not mean as much or be as fun as beating the Aggies. At least not yet.
