| by FWTX Staff | TCU secured its spot playing against Ole Miss in the 2014 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl after ending an incredible regular season with a big win over Iowa State (final score 55-3).
The Peach Bowl may not have been the bowl game TCU was looking forward to, but it was the Frogs" third major bowl appearance in the last four years. TCU is now the first program in college football history to appear in all six of the major college football bowl games.
Many fans felt that TCU was robbed when the rankings were released showing the Horned Frogs at No. 6, but the team did receive several recognitions.
Boykin was named Offensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press (AP). While TCU's offensive line improved considerably since last season, Trevone Boykin's performance was one of the main reasons for TCU's success. Paul Dawson also won Defensive Player of the Year.
TCU's head football coach, Gary Patterson, was the AP choice for coach of the year in the Big 12 Conference. Patterson received 17 out of 20 votes in the ballot by AP media members who regularly cover the Big 12 conference.
He has a 131-45 record in 14 seasons with TCU and is the fifth-longest tenured head coach in the nation. Patterson has won 10 National Coach of the Year honors while at TCU.
In a recent interview for the Star-Telegram, Tim Brando, Fox Sports college football play-by-play announcer, best sums up why TCU continues to succeed:
"I think it's the greatest success story in the modern era of college football. We're not that many years removed from my days at CBS referring to TCU and Boise State and Utah as the flies in the ointment, the teams that could mess it up for the power conferences…Gary Patterson looked at the landscape and said, I'm in a league where you have to score points. For him to set aside his ego and say, I'm going to bring in a couple of guys that are going to reconstruct my entire offensive philosophy, speaks volumes. The guy won a Rose Bowl. He could easily have said, hey, we have our system, this is who we are, this is what we do. But instead, he saw what was going on in the sport and said, if I'm going to continue to be as successful as I want to be, I've got to change. Not many guys in his profession, this deep in, are willing to do that."
