TCU deserves BCS berth
By John Ashley Menzies

Just because TCU is ranked in the top six of the Bowl Championship Series now doesn’t mean they want us there.

So allow me to apologize to those who control the BCS rankings.

I’m sorry that TCU can’t blow out a team 77-0.

I’m sorry that Arizona is no longer a national power, like they were when that game was scheduled.

I’m sorry there is no big team on TCU’s schedule.

But does that detract that much from what TCU is doing?

TCU wins. Period. End of story. TCU gets down in the dirt and wins.

When did it become such a bad thing to just win?

The Frogs have moved up to the six spot in the BCS standings and are the first non-BCS team to do so since the BCS’s inception. And those BCS backers don’t even want TCU there. Football fans love it, but BCS people are dreaming of a TCU loss to just get the Frogs out of the equation.

There are only two undefeated teams left in the country. One is Oklahoma. Okay, Oklahoma is above and beyond the best team in the country. But that is beside the point.

As you watch other powerhouse teams fall one by one, TCU is that other team that somehow stays afloat.

TCU critics cry because the Frogs don’t play anybody. Then they cry because TCU doesn’t beat teams convincingly

The Frogs may not play anybody, but TCU is that somebody that everyone else plays. Every other team comes to play TCU and comes to play them hard.

And that is what the Frogs do. They play hard. Time after time, TCU could roll over and die, but they don’t.

They fought off Houston in a game that became a track meet.

They held off LeFors and Louisville to win by mere inches after allowing LeFors to have an incredible passing game.

Tulane wanted to come back, but the Frogs would have none of that.

Not to mention the Frogs are staying undefeated with a backup quarterback, a rotation of running backs and an injured Marvin Godbolt. The magnitude of injuries this team has overcome doesn’t even come close to ending at Godbolt, however.

Somehow the Frogs have still been able to pull it out. They’ve pulled it out nine times this season.
And then there are even some projections that say TCU would play the mighty Longhorns of the University of Texas.

The Longhorns and TCU? Now, that would be a game.

TCU can’t hang with the Longhorns, they’ll say. TCU can’t handle a receiver of Roy Williams’ caliber, they’ll say. Quarterback Vince Young is a better runner than they’ve seen all season, they’ll say.

But this is a Mack Brown team. Tell me what a Mack Brown football team has done?

He’s had more talent to work with in Austin and has done nothing with it, as he has still never led a Longhorns team to a BCS bowl game. He’s got a four-game losing streak to Oklahoma, and his team is not capable of getting down in the dirt with you and just beating you.

Texas is what it is. It is soft and it is a Mack Brown team. And they’re a team that does not scare me.
Vince Young is not a great quarterback. He is a good runner but nothing beyond that at this point in his career. So, Roy Williams and B.J. Johnson wouldn’t be as big of factors.

It has been running quarterbacks who can throw that has given the Frogs fits these past few weeks. And Young might not even be the best quarterback the Frogs have faced this season.

TCU couldn’t just play with UT. TCU could beat them.

Critics don’t want to jump aboard the TCU band wagon, but that’s okay.

They’ll cry when TCU gets into a BCS bowl game; that’s okay, too.

But when TCU does and they go and beat a team like Texas, I’ll be saving those BCS backers a seat on the wagon right beside me.