TCU notes: Frogs fool Oklahoma with trick kickoff

TCU coach Gary Patterson threw his conservative ways out the window Saturday and ran a trick kickoff return against Oklahoma that involved a lateral going the width of the field and a player hiding in the end zone.

Right as the ball was kicked, TCU’s B.J. Catalon lay down in the middle of the “O” in the end zone, masked by the purple turf.

Cameron Echols-Luper fielded the kick, ran 8 yards and stopped, throwing the ball backward across the field to the unguarded Catalon, who had popped up from his hiding spot to a wide-open space on the field.

Echols-Luper is typically not on kick return duty, but took over the role from Kyle Hicks because he played quarterback in high school.

Catalon advanced the ball 30 yards, but a 10-yard holding penalty pushed TCU back to its 30-yard line.

“In this league, you better bring all your guns,” Patterson said. “That was one of our shots.”

Dawson’s pick-six

TCU linebacker Paul Dawson said he was supposed to blitz, but he read OU quarterback Trevor Knight’s eyes, backed up and made an interception, which he returned 41 yards for the game-winning score in the first minute of the fourth quarter.

TCU had trouble controlling Knight’s scrambles, as he rushed for 61 yards on 13 carries.

“He’s not the best quarterback that OU has had,” Dawson said. “They wanted to get him running and get him throwing short passes.”

Knight added several successful quarterback draws, which Dawson said made him angry.

“That was like their main play, the QB draw,” he said. “That was really just making me mad the whole time. They would only run it when we had one backer in the box. It was killing us. We caught onto it and we stopped it.”

Boykin: Signals shared

TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin said Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield, a transfer from Texas Tech, was letting the OU coaching staff in on TCU’s offensive signals, which were brought over from Tech by new TCU co-offensive coordinator Sonny Cumbie.

“Old Baker Mayfield was on the sidelines and calling out every freaking signal we had, so shout out to Baker Mayfield and OU for that,” Boykin said

Both Cumbie and Mayfield were at Tech together last season.

Boykin said he took some pride that TCU pulled off the 37-33 upset and gained 479 total yards.

“You can know it, but the whole question is can you stop it and executing every play,” Boykin said. “I guess, I don’t know, it’s just a shout out to them.”

This story was originally published October 4, 2014 at 9:53 PM.