The Horned Frogs are good--just in case anyone still wondered. They whipped Utah every which way, chasing the Utes from the BCS discussion while making a strong case for themselves as worthy of a title shot. Are they better than Boise State? Who knows. The two programs appear to be pretty even. Do they have a better shot than Alabama of reaching the BCS title game? They do now.
One thing I find funny is the "outsider" status of TCU, which is based solely on their current status as a member of a non-BCS conference. But the Horned Frogs are a traditional power having won national championships under coach Dutch Meyer in the 1930s and Southwest Conference championships under Abe Martin in the 1950s. The program fell on hard times and had some pretty pathetic seasons in the 1970s and '80s, but you cannot hang an outsider tag on them because they had to be rebuilt. The reality is that some teams have been considered "haves" because of the conference they play in and others "have nots" because of the conference they play in but the reality is sometimes different than the accepted truth. TCU is proud of their history and proud of their recent dominance. They recruit Texas hard and pay their coaches well. Like Boise, they play football to win games--many schools do not--and they are very successful at it. Unlike Boise, they should not be considered an outsider.
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