With TCU losing today....

[Htown77]

Not only does the Big 12 lose a bowl team, but Herman gets another loss to a losing team.

Losses to teams with losing or 0.500/6-6 records by coach:

David McWilliams
1987 @ Houston 40-60 (4-6-1)
1988 @ Texas Tech 32-33 (5-6)
1989 Baylor (5-6) 7-50
1991 Auburn (5-6) 10-14
1991 @Arkansas (6-6) 13-14
1991 @ Houston (4-7) 16-34
31-26

6 out of 57 games (11%) in 5 years

John Mackovic
1992 @ TCU (2-8-1) 14-23
1993 Texas Tech (6-6) 22-31
1994 @Rice (5-6) 17-19
1994 @ Texas Tech (6-6) 9-33
1996 Oklahoma (3-8) 27-30 OT
1997 Colorado (5-6) 30-47
1997 @ Baylor (2-9) 21-23
41-28-2

7 out of 71 games (10%) in 6 years

Mack Brown
1999 NC State (6-6) 20-23
2000 @Stanford (5-6) 24-27
2007 Kansas State (5-7) 21-41
2010 UCLA (4-8) 12-34
2010 Iowa State (5-7) 21-28
158-48

5 out of 206 games (2%) in 16 years

Charlie Strong
2015 Iowa State (3-9) 0-24
2016 @California (5-7) 43-50
2016 @Kansas (2-10) 21-24 OT
2016 TCU (6-7) 9-31
16-21

4 out of 37 games (11%) in 3 years

Tom Herman
2017 Maryland (4-8) 41-51
2017 Texas Tech (6-7) 23-27
2018 @Maryland (5-7) 29-34
2019 @ TCU (5-7) 27-37
24-15

4 out of 39 games (10%) in 3 years

Herman needs to clean up the losses to losing or .500 teams. Right now he is on par with McWilliams, Mackovic and Strong and not Mack Brown. That said, the lack of losses to bad teams from 2011-2014 and the massive amount from 2015 through the first game of 2018 indicate that Strong really was tanking the program. We should not have lost to TCU, but only 1 loss to a losing team in the past 25 games is progress from 5 bad losses in the 26 games before that.

 

[FWHORN]

TCU really is most frustrating loss of year, other four losses are explainable that one is just bad. Texas was better team and just choked it away.

 

[Detective Shilala]

Iowa STate was inexcusable too. No excuse for that losing offensive game-plan.

 

[Mike the Texan]

I know it's a loss to a losing team, but screw TCU. I was glad WVA beat them and they will be sitting home during bowl season.

The only time TCU decided to play big boy football was versus Texas. That game, their defense was awesome and the QB was Heisman worthy. Then, they proceeded to roll over to bad teams for the rest of the year.

- Mike

 

[BurntOrangeLH]

Iowa STate was inexcusable too. No excuse for that losing offensive game-plan.

You mean the one they told the OL not to block anyone?