Frogs could make history with hard work, luck
COMMENTARY
by Carlos Alvarado

Saturday was a great night for college football, well Frog fans anyway. Florida State lost to Clemson in the Bowden Bowl and Pittsburgh won a thriller over Virginia Tech. The energy those two games created was amazing. The fact that TCU needed those teams to lose in order to move up made it even more exciting. The games contained all the passion normally reserved for the Frogs.

The Frogs are now in the top six in the BCS rankings but are not guaranteed to stay there. They need to handle some business in the form of Cincinnati, Southern Miss and Southern Methodist first, but they could use a helping hand to stay in the top six.

The biggest adversaries will be the pollsters who do not believe that TCU belongs and will do what they can with their voting power to ensure that TCU does not receive an automatic bid. Regardless of strength of schedule or the computer polls, which have been an enormous help to TCU, the polls still rule the coop.

In order for TCU to stay or even have a chance for a non-guaranteed bid, certain pieces must fall into place.

Big 12
Oklahoma needs to win out. This includes the Big 12 Championship game. It is very likely that a one loss Oklahoma team could still get an at-large bid, along with a surging Texas Longhorns squad. Texas has never received a BCS bid and its legions of followers will be an interesting draw. A three-loss Texas team will never make it, so we must hope for Texas Tech or Texas A&M.

Big Ten
Ohio State must win out. The Big 10 has played arguably the best football of any conference this year. It would be tough to not have at least two teams from this conference, but once again, teams with three losses would be hard to justify over an undefeated Frogs.

ACC
Florida State winning the ACC would be good for the Frogs.

Pac 10
USC needs to get past rival UCLA,and put itself into the championship game against Oklahoma. Washington State losing to rival Washington would be good for the Frogs because, once again, a three-loss team is hard to justify.

Big East
A Pittsburgh victory over Miami would secure them the Big East Championship and saddle Miami with three losses.

SEC
An LSU victory over Ole Miss would secure them the SEC West and a victory in the SEC title game would give another SEC team three losses.

The Frogs are on the path to history, and making it will take considerable work on their part. A loss would devastate their chances and could cost them the conference title as well. It will be fun to watch the Frogs and these other pieces that may or may not fall into place. If TCU does its part and some of these other pieces fall into place, roses will be a popular item in the TCU Bookstore.