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TCU thanks Atlanta for hospitality after Peach Bowl victory

By Phil Watson

Dec 31, 2014; Atlanta , GA, USA; TCU Horned Frogs team members pose for a photo with the trophy after the 2014 Peach Bowl against the Mississippi Rebels at the Georgia Dome. TCU defeated Ole Miss 42-3. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 31, 2014; Atlanta , GA, USA; TCU Horned Frogs team members pose for a photo with the trophy after the 2014 Peach Bowl against the Mississippi Rebels at the Georgia Dome. TCU defeated Ole Miss 42-3. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports /
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TCU continued a classy tradition this week, taking out a full-page color ad in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to say thank you to the city after the Peach Bowl.

Stay classy, TCU. No, seriously.

The university took out a full page ad in the Thursday edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to thank the city for its hospitality while the Horned Frogs were there for the Peach Bowl, played on New Year’s Eve.

It’s not the first time TCU did this. After playing in the 2011 Rose Bowl, the school took out a similar ad in the Los Angeles Times.

It’s such a classy gesture, but that shouldn’t be a surprise coming from TCU’s football program.

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After the announcement of the College Football Playoff matchups last month,  it seemed TCU had the most legitimate beef after falling from No.3—and in the field—in the selection committee’s penultimate rankings prior to the final weekend of the regular season to No. 6 in the committee rankings that counted.

But while Baylor whined to anyone with a microphone, recorder or pad and pencil, TCU didn’t complain.

“I don’t think it can linger at all,” TCU coach Gary Patterson said in a Peach Bowl teleconference on selection Sunday (per FOXSports.com) about the disappointment over being left out of the playoff field. “Ole Miss was ranked as high as third in the national standings. For us, we know we’re playing a very good football team. If we want to prove we were a team that should have been in the playoffs and do all that, the Peach Bowl playing Ole Miss is exactly the game we should be in.”

On the other hand, Baylor coach Art Briles came out with flamethrower ignited after the Bears were ranked No. 5.

“My opinion, since people are asking? I think the committee needs to be a little more regionalized with people that are associated with the south part of the United States,” Briles told ESPN.com on selection Sunday. “I’ll say that. I’m not sure if there’s a connection on there that is that familiar with the Big 12 Conference. To me, that’s an issue.”

Patterson, on the other hand, seemed to understand his team’s fate.

“It’s one of those things if you didn’t want to be disappointed, you need to be undefeated,” Patterson said. “It’s the only way you can control your own destiny and we didn’t do that.”

The bowl results may have shown that karma is a thing, after all.

While TCU was blowing out Ole Miss 42-3 in the Peach Bowl on Wednesday, Baylor went out in Thursday’s Cotton Bowl and gagged up a 41-21 lead in the fourth quarter to lose 42-41 to Michigan State.

That would be the same Michigan State team that lost two games this season—on the road at Oregon and at home to Ohio State … the two teams who will play for the national championship on Jan. 12.

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