Telling numbers: A look back at TCU’s 2019 football season
TCU football had a disappointing 5-7 season this year. It’s just the third time in Gary Patterson’s 19 seasons that the Horned Frogs aren’t bowling over the holidays.
Here’s a look back at some telling numbers from the season.
Telling offensive numbers
203.7 — yards passing per game, which ranked ninth in the Big 12 and 90th nationally
53.4 — completion percentage, ranking 115th out of 130 teams in country
2,632 — total offensive yards by Max Duggan (2,077 passing, 555 rushing)
55 — yards, longest pass play on a TD from Duggan to Jalen Reagor
611 — yards receiving by Reagor, the most on the team
204 — yards rushing per game, which ranked third in the Big 12 and 31st nationally
8 — rushing TDs by Sewo Olonilua
77 — yard run by Darius Anderson, longest of season
30 — sacks allowed, tied for 100th-most allowed in the country
50 — scores in 53 red-zone trips, 29 TDs (21 rush, eight pass) and 21 field goals
Telling defensive numbers
22 — sacks, tied for 83rd in country
5 — sacks by defensive ends, Ochaun Mathis (2.5), Shameik Blackshear (1.5), Parker Workman (1)
3.5 — team-leading sacks by Garret Wallow and Ross Blacklock
125 — tackles by Wallow, which led the Big 12
16 — interceptions, tied for fifth-most in country (Florida Atlantic led country with 21)
4 — fumbles recovered, 113th in nation
116 — red-zone defense rank in country, opponents turned 36 of 40 trips into points (25 TDs, 11 FGs)
336.9 — yards of total defense, second-best in Big 12
199.7 — yards of pass defense, second-best in Big 12
223 — yards rushing by Oklahoma State’s Chuba Hubbard, most by an individual player on Gary Patterson’s defense
92 — yard TD run by Hubbard, longest play given up by TCU this season
Telling special teams numbers
20.8 — yards per punt return by Reagor, setting a TCU record that had stood for 50 years (20.4 yards per punt in 1969 by Linzy Cole)
17.8 — Reagor’s career punt return average, which is best in program history (16.0 yards per punt by Blanard Spearman from 1930-32)
108 — points scored by kicker Jonathan Song (23-of-24 field goals, 39-of-39 PATs)
42 — yard field goal missed by Song vs. Kansas, his only miss of season
38.4 — yards per punt average by Jordy Sandy
9 — punts of 50-plus yards by Sandy
120 — TCU’s rank out of 130 teams in the country in net punting (35.58 yards)
119 — TCU’s rank out of 130 teams in the country in kickoff return yards (16.72 yards)
Other telling numbers
Plus-0 — turnover margin (20 giveaways with 11 INTs, 9 fumbles and 20 takeaways with 16 INTs and four fumbles)
50,895 — average attendance of all games
42,881 — average attendance at Amon G. Carter Stadium
82,241 — attendance at Oklahoma, most attended game of season
40,126 — attendance vs. West Virginia in regular-season finale, least attended game
78 — penalties (736 yards), 81st in nation
