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One of the most played rivalries in US college football history resumes this Saturday!
The schools for a time were both located in Waco, and they played multiple times a year until the Texas Christian campus burned down and then moved back to Ft. Worth in 1910 (No, you can't prove anything! No suspicions of any Baylor involvement in the fire...). They continued to play in 9 of the next 15 seasons and resumed playing annually after TCU joined the SWC in 1923 (Baylor had been a founding member in 1915).
The all-time series is tied, 51-51-7...41 of the games have been decided by 7 points or less, including last year's 41-38 Baylor victory in Fort Worth...but, 36 games have resulted in shutouts, the most recent being a TCU 27-0 win in 2007. TCU did not score a point in the first 10 meetings: 7 Bears victories and 3 scoreless ties, all played during the 1899-1904 seasons. The Frogs then shut Baylor out 3 of the next 4 games (the fourth was a Baylor 10-0 shutout). These were all played during 1904-05.
The longest winning streak for either team is 8 games. TCU did it from 1964-71; Baylor did it from '74-'81.
The largest margin of victory in the series came in 1910, a 52-0 Bears win. TCU's biggest win was a 45-10 pasting in Ft. Worth in 2010...they would go on to win the Rose Bowl in January.
The Horned Frogs took command of the series starting in 1955, winning sixteen of the next nineteen games. Baylor then answered with their eight-game win streak to bring it back to almost even. The series was disrupted in 1995 with the dismantling of the old Southwest Conference, when Baylor moved to the Big Twelve. Baylor resumed their rivalry with the Frogs in 2006.
TCU was left out in the cold after the SWC breakup and subsequently moved through the WAC, Conference USA, and then the Mountain West before being reunited with most of their old SWC foes in the new-look Big XII, in 2011.
TCU has been the homecoming opponent for Baylor 31 times, more than any other school.
TCU coach Jim Pittman collapsed and died on the sideline during the 1971 game, the only time in college football history that a coach has died during a game - surprisingly.
TCU was known as AddRan Male and Female College from 1873-1889 and as AddRan Christian University from 1889-1902. This was for the names of two founding brothers, Addison and Randolph Clark.
The schools for a time were both located in Waco, and they played multiple times a year until the Texas Christian campus burned down and then moved back to Ft. Worth in 1910 (No, you can't prove anything! No suspicions of any Baylor involvement in the fire...). They continued to play in 9 of the next 15 seasons and resumed playing annually after TCU joined the SWC in 1923 (Baylor had been a founding member in 1915).
The all-time series is tied, 51-51-7...41 of the games have been decided by 7 points or less, including last year's 41-38 Baylor victory in Fort Worth...but, 36 games have resulted in shutouts, the most recent being a TCU 27-0 win in 2007. TCU did not score a point in the first 10 meetings: 7 Bears victories and 3 scoreless ties, all played during the 1899-1904 seasons. The Frogs then shut Baylor out 3 of the next 4 games (the fourth was a Baylor 10-0 shutout). These were all played during 1904-05.
The longest winning streak for either team is 8 games. TCU did it from 1964-71; Baylor did it from '74-'81.
The largest margin of victory in the series came in 1910, a 52-0 Bears win. TCU's biggest win was a 45-10 pasting in Ft. Worth in 2010...they would go on to win the Rose Bowl in January.
The Horned Frogs took command of the series starting in 1955, winning sixteen of the next nineteen games. Baylor then answered with their eight-game win streak to bring it back to almost even. The series was disrupted in 1995 with the dismantling of the old Southwest Conference, when Baylor moved to the Big Twelve. Baylor resumed their rivalry with the Frogs in 2006.
TCU was left out in the cold after the SWC breakup and subsequently moved through the WAC, Conference USA, and then the Mountain West before being reunited with most of their old SWC foes in the new-look Big XII, in 2011.
TCU has been the homecoming opponent for Baylor 31 times, more than any other school.
TCU coach Jim Pittman collapsed and died on the sideline during the 1971 game, the only time in college football history that a coach has died during a game - surprisingly.
TCU was known as AddRan Male and Female College from 1873-1889 and as AddRan Christian University from 1889-1902. This was for the names of two founding brothers, Addison and Randolph Clark.
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