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[junker-town]

TCU’s Alamo Bowl comeback was one of the greatest games ever

TCU’s in the Alamo for the first time since its 31-point comeback to beat Oregon in overtime.

No. 15 TCU plays No. 13 Stanford in the Alamo Bowl on Thursday (9 p.m. ET, ESPN). That’s a New Year’s Six-worthy game in San Antonio, though a slightly disappointing landing spot for both teams.

But if you’re a TCU fan — or just a college football fan — you can take heart in the Frogs being back at the Alamodome. Because the last time they were there for this bowl game, TCU was involved in one of the best bowls ever. Let’s head down memory lane.

The 2015 season’s Alamo Bowl was bonkers.

TCU beat Oregon, 47-41. Here’s a win probability graph:

So this is what a 31-point comeback looks like #Alamobowl #Neverindoubt http://pic.twitter.com/BO3PqKfMZb

— Sharon Katz (@skatz23) January 3, 2016

The first half was 31-0, Oregon.

The Ducks scored 21 in the first quarter and 10 more in the second. Their four touchdowns came on drives of 81, 79, 84, and 62 yards. None took more than 2:32 of clock time, though three involved seven or eight snaps. To call Oregon’s offense in the first half a knife going through butter wouldn’t be strong enough. The Ducks averaged 7.2 yard per play and scored touchdowns before TCU’s defense could catch its breath.

The first of those, a 37-yard throw from Vernon Adams to Darren Carrington:

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Other than “31-0,” the best way to sum up TCU’s first half is that the Horned Frogs blocked a punt and had it turn into Oregon getting a first down on the same play.

The second half was 31-0, TCU.

The symmetry was incredible. TCU got 17 points in the third quarter, which made the game marginally interesting. The Frogs beat the doors down with 14 more in the fourth to tie the game and send it to overtime. They had a chance to win the game before overtime, but Oregon stopped TCU on the 5-yard line and forced a chip shot with 19 seconds left. The comeback could’ve been even more shocking than it turned out.

One overtime wasn’t enough.

TCU got the ball first and scored a touchdown. Oregon then faced a fourth-and-4 with the game on the line, but the Ducks converted on a 17-yard throw from Jeff Lockie to Royce Freeman, down to TCU’s 2. The Ducks scored two plays after.

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Two OTs also weren’t enough.

Both teams forced (and made) field goals in the second overtime.

In the third OT, TCU finished the job. But it was tense.

The Frogs got the ball first again, and because it was the third overtime, they were forced to go for two in the event of a touchdown. TCU did score a touchdown but didn’t convert the two, which gave Oregon a chance to win with 25 yards and a two.

Oregon faced a third-and-2 at TCU’s 17, fumbled, and recovered. But the play caused a loss of 6 yards, and a Lockie throw to Carrington fell incomplete on fourth down.

How’d it happen? There’s a short answer and a long answer.

A short one: Gary Patterson finally chose the right shirt.

A longer one: Oregon quarterback Vernon Adams didn’t play in the second half. The Ducks’ starting center, Matt Hegarty, also left early with an injury. The Ducks had trouble doing basic things like executing QB-center exchanges after that.

Oregon was a different team without Adams on the field:

The Heisman does not go to the country's most valuable player. If it did, Alabama's Derrick Henry, with that absurd defense in his back pocket, wouldn't have taken the award. But if we did have such an award to give, Vernon Adams would have one hell of a case.

Oregon lost four games, and Adams was only on the field at the end of one (at Michigan State, when he was trying to lead a comeback with a broken hand). The senior EWU transfer had a 179 passer rating, and he was 13-for-19 for 197 yards against TCU. But then he took a hard hit and left the game with a head injury. Hegarty, the center, left too.

Faulty snaps wrecked multiple drives. A tiring defense got no rest, which increased odds of failure. Everything snowballed.

TCU was itself playing a backup quarterback all night. Starter Trevone Boykin was suspended after getting into a bar fight and arrested days before the game. Bram Kohlhausen finished with 351 yards and two touchdowns.

Here’s some further reading on that game.

This oral history from SB Nation’s TCU site, Frogs O’ War, is great. Here’s Kohlhausen recounting the moment the game ended:

Sam Carter and I had already grabbed the Gatorade [before the last play]. And I was like, “Dude, they could score.” And he said, “They’re not scoring.” I guess every defensive player knew that they weren’t going to score again, and right when the horn sounded, we went and dumped Gatorade on Coach P, and I went and found my buddies and my family and started jumping around.

The game came in No. 2 on Bill Connelly’s ranking of the 100 best games of the 2015 season.

Yes, suspensions and injuries played roles. If TCU’s Trevone Boykin doesn’t get himself suspended before the Alamo Bowl, the Horned Frogs don’t get outscored 31-0 in the first half. (Then again, they dug plenty of holes with him in 2015…) And if Oregon’s Vernon Adams doesn’t get hurt in the second quarter, the Ducks don’t get outscored 31-0 in the second half. This was still remarkable, even if you turned it off for a while because it was a blowout.

It was a blast for everyone who didn’t have an interest in Oregon winning.

So, yeah, I think it’s cool that TCU is back in the Alamo Bowl.

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[junker-town]

A quick 2017 Final Four guide for college football fans

Let’s find a football counterpart for these four hoops programs.

If you’re a college football fan who doesn’t much follow basketball, fear not. With input from a bunch of my friends at SB Nation, I’ve made up a sort of guide. The goal: to match every team in this year’s Final Four team to the most similar football program, so if you’re trying to pick a rooting interest, maybe it’ll help. If you’re a college football and basketball fan who thinks I’m woefully off base, let me know.

North Carolina basketball = Michigan football

The Tar Heels are not the best basketball program ever, probably. UCLA has 11 national championships, and Kentucky has eight, compared to five for UNC. But the Heels have been an elite the majority of the time since the 1960s.

Michigan is not the best football program ever, either. But the Wolverines are also close to the top. They claim 11 national titles, which is a ton, but not as many as Alabama. (Whether the Tide have 12 or 16 is up for debate.) Still, they’re elite, and their block-M logo is an internationally recognizable symbol, much like Carolina Blue.

North Carolina produced the best basketball player ever, Michael Jordan. Michigan produced the best football player ever, Tom Brady. (Let’s not argue this out right now.) Michigan even wears Jordan’s Jumpman logo on its jerseys.

Michigan's new jerseys are here, and they've got a basketball player on 'em https://t.co/wsyUXES0JQ (@MaizenBrew) http://pic.twitter.com/gAMYla36If

— SB✯Nation CFB (@SBNationCFB) August 2, 2016

Michigan plays in the Big Ten. The commissioner of that conference, Jim Delany, is a former North Carolina basketball player.

Oregon basketball = TCU football

Long ago, the Ducks were a great basketball team. As a member of the Pacific Coast Conference, they won the first NCAA tournament in 1939. But they spent years in the wilderness, making a total of nine more Big Dances until 2013. The Ducks pivoted from a championship to decades of mediocrity.

TCU was the 1938 national champion in football, a title that stands as its only one. There were some great years before that, but TCU was mostly not great. And from the 1960s to the late 1990s, TCU was mired in its own underwhelming results.

Now Oregon’s playing in its fifth NCAA tournament in a row. TCU made BCS bowls in 2009 and 2010 and has become a regular postseason presence. Neither program has won a second national championship just yet, however.

TCU’s football team beat Oregon’s in the Alamo Bowl two seasons ago. That meeting ranked No. 2 on Bill Connelly’s Top 100 Games of 2015. Here’s a graphical illustration of how thrilling that game was:

So this is what a 31-point comeback looks like #Alamobowl #Neverindoubt http://pic.twitter.com/BO3PqKfMZb

— Sharon Katz (@skatz23) January 3, 2016

Gonzaga basketball = Boise State football

The Bulldogs play in the West Coast Conference, a mid-major league they’ve dominated for two decades. They’ve spent more years dealing with power-conference disrespect than any basketball team in this era. All the while, they’ve made 19 NCAA tournaments in a row. This is their first appearance in the Final Four.

Boise State is the closest equivalent in football. The Broncos were the dominant force in the WAC even before Chris Petersen arrived for the 2006 season, and they’ve continued to dominate in the Mountain West under Bryan Harsin. But despite nine double-digit win years since 2006, they’ve only made three New Year’s Six or BCS bowls. They’ve won all three.

This parallel’s not perfect. Gonzaga’s run of excellence has gone on a little longer and all under one coach, Mark Few. The Zags have been seeded fairly enough in the tournament, and there’s no bowl system to spurn them.

However, here are program heroes Kellen Moore and Adam Morrison side-by-side.

South Carolina basketball = Michigan State football

The Gamecocks do not recruit like a Final Four team. They do not play offense like a Final Four team. They have no history as an elite basketball team. But they do play elite defense, and of late, they’ve done nothing but win.

This feels somewhat similar to Michigan State. Not last year’s MSU, which went 3-9, and not 2014-2015 MSU, which played good offense, but the teams from around 2010-2013. The Spartans were 6-7 in 2009. By 2011, a defense that ranked in the 60s two years earlier was 10th in the country in points allowed per game.

Much like Mark Dantonio and coordinator Pat Narduzzi molded the Spartans’ defense over time, Frank Martin’s transformed the Gamecocks’. They were horrific on D in Martin’s first season, 2012-13, but have risen to No. 2 in adjusted efficiency this year. The offense isn’t great, just like Michigan State’s wasn’t when it won the 2013 season’s Rose Bowl behind a sophomore Connor Cook.

South Carolina’s rise has been more sudden. It took Michigan State a few years of being good to finally make (and win) a BCS bowl, and the Spartans had some history of great play before Dantonio’s run. But the feel of a down program mounting a rapid rise with defense feels similar to Michigan State’s.

Plus, Dantonio’s a Gamecock alum. He played defensive back in Columbia under Jim Carlen from 1976-1978.

The Final Four starts Saturday night in Glendale, Ariz., on CBS.