PLAYERS TO WATCH
–RB Darius Anderson is by far TCU’s most explosive and dependable playmaker but has tapered off some as his opportunities have been reduced throughout the season. He’s become the flash-and-dash runner to Sewo Olonilua’s grind-it-out option. Anderson will be leaned on even more now that the Horned Frogs have lost QB Shawn Robinson to a season-ending injury and WR KaVontae Turpin to a dismissal after his domestic violence arrest. Anderson carried six times for 32 yards in TCU’s 52-27 home loss last week to Oklahoma and now has 393 yards and three touchdowns on 67 carries for the season.
–QB Michael Collins, a transfer from Penn, has taken the reins of the team after Shawn Robinson was forced from the loss to Oklahoma with a season-ending shoulder injury. Robinson, a sophomore, has played in all seven games for TCU, completing 61 percent of his passes for 1,334 yards, nine touchdowns and eight interceptions. He also ran for 230 yards and three scores. Collins entered the OU game with the Horned Frogs trailing 28-7, but he helped TCU close the gap to 28-24 at halftime. He finished the day 7-of-17 for 142 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.
–LB Ty Summers needs just 34 tackles to become the all-time tackling leader in the Gary Patterson era. Summers ran a 4.55 40-yard dash in the spring and has recorded a 36-inch vertical. He has 39 stops, 2.5 for loss, two quarterback hurries and a sack through the first seven games.
–DE Ben Banogu, a senior, had four tackles in the loss to Oklahoma; Banogu now has 23 stops, a forced fumble that led to a TD return, a fumble return for score, three sacks and four quarterback hurries for the season.
SERIES HISTORY: TCU leads Kansas 22-8-4. The Frogs are 10-6 against the Jayhawks in Lawrence, 10-2-2 in Fort Worth and 2-0-2 in the four games (1944-47) played in Kansas City.
QUOTE TO NOTE: “Shawn has tried to play. It’s hurt his confidence and it’s hurt his escapability and a lot of other things for him to make some plays, how we run the read option and everything. It just came to a point in time for the betterment of him, he needed to go ahead and get things taken care of.” — TCU coach Gary Patterson on quarterback Shawn Robinson’s season-ending shoulder injury.
