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FB: Horned Frogs Roll Over Tennessee Tech, 62-7
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FacebookCourtesy Associated Press
September 11, 2010
FORT WORTH, Texas - Matthew Tucker ran for two touchdowns, Andy Dalton threw for a score while setting another TCU record and the fourth-ranked Horned Frogs stretched their home winning streak to 15 games with a 62-7 victory over Tennessee Tech from the FCS on Saturday night.
Dalton tied Max Knake's school record of 622 career completions with his second against the Golden Eagles, a 24-yard pass to Josh Boyce less than 5 minutes into the game to put TCU (2-0) ahead to stay.
The Horned Frogs scored twice in the final 1:26 of the first half for a 35-7 lead after Tennessee Tech (0-2) fumbled on consecutive offensive plays.
There would be no repeat of Gary Patterson's first home game as the Frogs' coach in 2001, when they lost to lower-division Northwestern State of Louisiana. That was the last time they lost a home opener.
Or another Ohio Valley Conference team winning on the road against an FBS team like Jacksonville State at Mississippi last week. Patterson, who has a master's degree from Tennessee Tech, quickly made his team aware of the OVC upset in the first meeting this week.
Ed Wesley ran 11 times for 85 yards with a 7-yard TD. Dalton added a 19-yard TD run before Waymon James (15 yards) and Ryan Hightower (16 yards) scored in the fourth quarter in TCU's highest-scoring game since a 67-7 victory over FCS team Stephen F. Austin in the 2008 home opener.
Dalton completed 15 of 21 passes for 182 yards in his 31st career victory, two more than "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh for the most at TCU and four more than Boise State's Kellen Moore for the most among active FCS quarterbacks. The fourth-year starter increased his career passing yardage number to 7,814 while still 66 attempts shy of Knake's mark of 1,115 set from 1992-95.
Tennessee Tech is the only FCS team that opened the season against consecutive Top 25 teams, having lost at 14th-ranked Arkansas 44-3 in its opener. The Golden Eagles are now 0-26 against FBS teams, including seven in coach Watson Brown's four seasons.
A week after defeating then-No. 24 Oregon State 30-21 in a season opener about 20 miles away at Cowboys Stadium, TCU played its home opener for the 80th season at Amon G. Carter Stadium, which will undergo a $105 million renovation after this season.
Jason Teague returned an interception 29 yards for a touchdown at the end of the first quarter for a 21-0 lead, and forced the first of Tennessee Tech's fumbles that led to a score.
Cass Barnes took his first snap as Tech's quarterback late in the first half and fumbled on the keeper after getting hit by Teague. Tanner Brock recovered at the Golden Eagles 39.
After a 37-yard pass was wiped out by a holding call -- TCU's third in a 10-play span -- Dalton hit Boyce for 32-yard gain. Jeremy Kerley scored on a 5-yard run. Doug Page fumbled on the Golden Eagles' next snap at the 20, setting up Tucker's second TD -- leaping over the right side from a yard out.
Tucker scored on a 3-yard run with a minute left in the first half, two plays before Teague's interception return.
TCU had seven penalties for 70 yards in the first half, including two personal fouls. An illegal block wiped out a 54-yard kickoff return by Kerley after Tech's only touchdown which came on Tre Lamb's 11-yard pass to Tremain Hudson.
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