TCU Heads to Waco for Latest Rendition of the Revivalry
10/15/2026
Fresh off a bye week, TCU is back on the road in Big 12 play to face Baylor on Saturday night at McLane Stadium to renew the most-played rivalry game in the State of Texas.
GAME DAY DETAILS
TCU (2-3, 0-2) at Baylor (4-1, 2-0)
Saturday, October 17 - 6 p.m.
McLane Stadium - Waco, Texas
Tracking the Game:
Television » FS1 (Noah Reed and Petros Papadakis)
Radio Tuning » KZPS 92.5 FM and Sirius XM 264 / Spanish KAMV-FM 107.1-2 and KLNO-FM 94.1-2
Radio Streaming » The Varsity Network App
Live Stats » StatBroadcast
NOTING THE GAME
- Coming off a bye week, TCU is set to face Baylor as it looks to get back into the win column.
- It will be the 122nd all-time meeting between the two schools, the most-played college football rivalry in the state of Texas.
- TCU leads the all-time series 60-54-7, including a 30-25-1 mark in Waco.
- Under Dykes, TCU is 11-4 when it has had at least one extra week of preparation, with a 5-1 mark away from home in such games.
- The Horned Frogs have won nine of the last 11 meetings in the rivalry, a stretch which has included a pair of overtime games and six one-score games. The last two games in Waco ended in walk-off field goals, one for each side.
- The game is also one of the four protected games in the Big 12's scheduling model.
TCU has allowed opposing offenses to pick up just 14.0 first downs per game, the fewest in the Big 12 and sixth in the nation.
NOTING THE HORNED FROGS
- TCU is in its fifth season under the direction of head coach Sonny Dykes in 2026. The 2022 National Coach of the Year led TCU to 36 wins in his first four seasons, the most by a TCU head coach since Francis Schmidt won 37 from 1929-32.
- Dykes has also led programs at SMU (2018-21), Cal (2013-16), and Louisiana Tech (2010-12). In all four stops, Dykes has guided the program to the postseason, making him one of four active head coaches to take four different schools to a bowl game, joining Butch Jones, Lane Kiffin, and Rich Rodriguez.
- Dykes is also one of eight active head coaches to have appeared in the CFP National Championship game, along with Kirby Smart, Dabo Swinney, Ryan Day, Marcus Freeman, Kalen DeBoer, Mario Cristobal, and Curt Cignetti. Dykes and Cignetti are the only two coaches in CFP history to take over a losing program and direct them to the CFP in their first season.
- For the first time in three seasons, TCU has a new starting quarterback directing the offense as Harvard transfer Jaden Craig takes the reins. With the Crimson, he became the most accomplished quarterback in program history and left Cambridge with multiple school records. Through five games, Craig has posted numbers that are not only near the top of the conference, but the country. He is currently ranks second in the Big 12 in 300-yard passing performances (3) and ranks third in passing average per game (280.00). His passing average sits 13th nationally.
- The Horned Frogs also have a new offensive play caller in Gordon Sammis. For the past two seasons, Sammis ran the offense at UConn, helping the Huskies post consecutive nine-win seasons for the first time in program history while producing one of the nation's most efficient and explosive offenses. During that span, UConn achieved the program's first-ever 3,000-yard passer, 1,000-yard receiver and 1,000-yard rusher in the same season.
- Conversely, the defense returns a host of familiar names. Along with defensive coordinator Andy Avalos, now in year three, Jamel Johnson enjoyed a breakout campaign as a junior, totaling 96 tackles (second on the team) while posting five interceptions. The interception figure for Johnson ranked first the Big 12 and seventh in the country, while his near triple-digit tackle number was the ninth most in the conference. Up front, Markis Deal, Ansel Din-Mbuh and Paul Oyewale brings a combined 89 games played and 43 starts into the year.
WATCH LIST FROGS
Home to 10 national awards since 2009, the Horned Frogs are no strangers to taking home hardware including the Ted Hendricks Award (Jerry Hughes, 2009), the Rimington Trophy (Jake Kirkpatrick, 2010), the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award (Trevone Boykin, 2014; Max Duggan, 2022), the Jim Thorpe Award (Tre'von Moehrig, 2020; Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson, 2022), the Davey O'Brien and Unitas Golden Army Award (Max Duggan, 2022), and of course, the Heisman Trophy (Davey O'Brien, 1938).
Prior to the 2026 season, eight Frogs earned preseason recognition (listed below).
- Sports Info Solutions Preseason All-Big 12 First Team
- Sports Info Solutions All-America Team
- Sports Info Solutions All-Big 12 First Team
- Senior Bowl Top 300 List
- Allstate AFCA Good Works Team Nominee
- Outland Trophy Watch List
- Wuerffel Trophy Watch List
- Jason Witten Man of the Year Award Watch List
- Sports Info Solutions All-Big 12 Second Team
- Biletnikoff Award Watch List
- Preseason All-Big 12 Team
- Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List
- Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Watch List
- Chuck Bednarik Award Watch List
- Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch List
- Outland Trophy Watch List
- Senior Bowl Top 300 List
- Sports Info Solutions All-America Team
- Sports Info Solutions All-Big 12 First Team
