The Oklahoman

NO. 4 OU VS. NO. 12 TCU

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•When: 11:30 a.m., Saturday

•Where: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas

•TV: Fox (Cox 67/HD 728, Dish 150, DirecTV 219, U-verse 652/HS 1652)

•Radio: KRXO-FM 107.7

•First meeting: Oklahoma 38, TCU 20 on Nov. 11 in Norman

Scouting TCU

Record: 10-2, 7-2 Big 12

Best player: In Friday’s win over Baylor, TCU defensive end Mat Boesen had 5.5 sacks as the Horned Frogs racked up eight total. Bosen leads the Big

12 — ahead of OU’s Ogbonnia Okoronkwo — with 11.5 sacks. Eleven of those sacks have been solo. The California native started college at Boise State, where he played eight games in 2014 before transferri­ng to junior college and then to TCU.

The case for TCU: If anyone can slow down Oklahoma’s offense in the Big 12, it figures to be TCU. The Horned Frogs finished the regular season leading the league in total defense by nearly 50 yards ahead of Texas. They allowed just 90 rushing yards per game and 227.5 passing yards per game. TCU coach Gary Patterson figures to have plenty of wrinkles for his defense in the second meeting between the schools this season.

The case for Oklahoma: The Sooners’ offense put up 38 points on the Horned Frogs in the earlier meeting, and there doesn’t figure to be much reason why they won’t score a lot in this one. Baker Mayfield continues to look like a runaway Heisman Trophy winner, and Rodney Anderson had little problem putting up big numbers against an otherwise tough Horned Frogs defense.

RYAN ABER, STAFF WRITER

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