Sportsbook betting on TCU was popular this season and head coach Gary Patterson is one reason why. Patterson was recently named the Associated Press Coach of the Year. Sportsbooks saw that TCU had their best season in 70 years.
Sportsbook betting has TCU facing Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl and the Horned Frogs are getting a lot of respect as they are a touchdown favorite at sportsbooks. TCU had an unbeaten season in 2009. Sportsbook betting shows that they won the Mountain West and made it to their first ever BCS bowl game. Patterson was given the credit for getting TCU to this point. “I’m really kind of humbled by the whole thing,” Patterson said, “The best way I know how to deal with it is to put my nose down and keep getting ready for Boise.”
The AP vote was fairly close as sportsbook betting showed. Patterson got 21 votes while former Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly got 19 votes. Kelly is now the head coach at Notre Dame. Sportsbooks info shows that Alabama’s Nick Saban got 14 votes. Oregon’s Chip Kelly, Boise State’s Chris Peterson and Texas’ Mack Brown also got votes.
TCU has had a lot of sportsbook betting success under Patterson. He is 85-27 at TCU and in five of those sportsbook betting seasons the Horned Frogs had at least 11 wins. TCU won 12 games this sportsbooks season and went unbeaten for the first time since the 1938 season. TCU has a powerful defense that can impact sportsbook betting led by All-American Jerry Hughes on the defensive line.
TCU has not just done well straight up, they have also done well in sportsbook betting. Nine times this season the Horned Frogs won by at least 25 points and they went 8-4 versus the line at sportsbooks. TCU was also a very good road team in sportsbook betting going 5-1 against the odds at sportsbooks. They got sportsbook betting wins at Clemson, Virginia and Utah. “It’s a very strong underneath current of confidence and that’s the reason they have played on the road so well,” Patterson said, “Not a high emotion group, not a bunch of yellers and screamers.”
Sportsbook betting indicates that Patterson will be for a while since he agreed to a contract extension that has him at TCU through 2016. “For us it’s been a dream come true, but we understand there’s a fine line between penthouse and outhouse,” he said. “People may thing we reached the pinnacle. No, we haven’t. We want to play for the national championship.”