Archive for November, 2021

Aristophanes, call your office, please.

Monday, November 1st, 2021

Gary Patterson fired as head coach of TCU.

Patterson arrived at TCU as Dennis Franchione’s defensive coordinator in 1998 and took over as head coach in 2001. He went 181-79 at TCU and oversaw the Horned Frogs’ rise from being left behind after the breakup of the Southwest Conference back through Conference USA, the Mountain West and back into the Big 12, largely due to the success the school had under Patterson.

Despite his history at TCU, Patterson started to come under fire in recent years. The Horned Frogs haven’t finished a season ranked in the AP poll since 2017, when they went 11-2. The past four seasons, they were 21-22. He had also lost two straight to rival SMU after seven consecutive wins over the Mustangs.

Your loser update: week 8 and 9, 2021.

Monday, November 1st, 2021

NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:

Detroit

Next week is the Lions bye week. (Insert joke about Vegas odds against the bye here.)