Hypnotoad stays perfect: CFB media reacts to TCU’s thrilling win over Baylor
By John Buhler
Only TCU can run a fire drill and beat rival Baylor on a last-second field goal to stay perfect.
Death, taxes and the power of the Hypnotoad…
In one of the more intriguing games of the Week 12 slate, No. 4 TCU shocked the college football world to keep its winning streak intact. Despite getting all they could handle from arch-rival Baylor, the Horned Frogs ran one of the wackiest final series you will ever see. I mean, they ran the field-goal-kicking unit out in a fire drill with no timeouts left on fourth down to make the game-winner.
Here is the greatest moment in the rivalry between Baylor and TCU unfold before our very eyes.
TCU WALKOFF FIELD GOAL TO REMAIN UNDEFEATEDhttps://t.co/dVWvluyfxc
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) November 19, 2022
The Hypnotoad is inevitable, as TCU remains undefeated after stunning Baylor
It may have been a complete mental meltdown for Dave Aranda’s Bears squad, but Sonny Dykes’ Horned Frogs proved they are more good than lucky with their latest win by the skin of their teeth.
TCU just did the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen and it totally worked to perfection
— dr. jxke 🧸 (@cantguardjake) November 19, 2022
There’s no way TCU is one of the four best teams in college football, but that team has serious guts. Take nothing away from the marbles.
— Wes Rucker (@wesrucker247) November 19, 2022
TCU HOLY SHIT
— Football (@BostonConnr) November 19, 2022
if I needed to trust any team to complete a dramatic final-minute comeback including a frantic rushed field goal as time expired, it would 100 percent be TCU
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) November 19, 2022
Although they are not getting the respect from the Selection Committee they probably deserve, TCU is 11-0 on the season, 8-0 in Big 12 play and controls its own College Football Playoff destiny.
TCU 29, Baylor 28. Scramble drill field goal wins it and keeps them in Top 4. What. A. Finish.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) November 19, 2022
TCU just intentionally ran a fire-drill field goal with a college kicker in one of the biggest moments in program history and got away with it. Hilarious. Team of Destiny. 15 and 0 incoming
— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) November 19, 2022
That was an absolutely MENTAL final minute in Waco as TCU pulls off the comeback!
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) November 19, 2022
Everyone who hates TCU pic.twitter.com/dR4Wb2s7zT
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) November 19, 2022
All the Horned Frogs have to do to get in is beat Iowa State at home and then beat presumably Kansas State for a second time in the Big 12 Conference Championship Game in Arlington in two weeks.
Amazing fire drill win for TCU.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) November 19, 2022
MAX DUGGAN AND TCU: pic.twitter.com/LniWlSl6y4
— Pickswise (@Pickswise) November 19, 2022
TCU played that final set of downs absolutely horribly and it worked out anyway.
— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) November 19, 2022
#TCU is 11-0 for the FIRST TIME SINCE 2010 with win against Baylor.@TCU | #GoFrogs pic.twitter.com/MOk2U4KSVn
— CBS Sports HQ (@CBSSportsHQ) November 19, 2022
While this is not how you would want to draw up a final series for an offense, a special teams, or a defense for that matter, this sequence of events is why college football is the best sport on planet earth. It is 18 to 23-year-old kids getting lost in the moment on a massive stage with everyone watching at home or from the stadium. You cannot hope to bottle up this kind of utter madness.
While the Horned Frogs celebrate, Tennessee, USC and Clemson fans must be beside themselves.
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