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5 college football teams that will be on fraud watch in 2023

By Connor Muldowney

Dec 31, 2022; Glendale, Arizona, USA; TCU Horned Frogs coach Sonny Dykes reacts during the 2022 Fiesta Bowl against the Michigan Wolverines. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 31, 2022; Glendale, Arizona, USA; TCU Horned Frogs coach Sonny Dykes reacts during the 2022 Fiesta Bowl against the Michigan Wolverines. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jan 9, 2023; Inglewood, CA, USA; TCU Horned Frogs head coach Sonny Dykes looks on Georgia Bulldogs during the first quarter of the CFP national championship game at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 9, 2023; Inglewood, CA, USA; TCU Horned Frogs head coach Sonny Dykes looks on Georgia Bulldogs during the first quarter of the CFP national championship game at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports /

1. TCU Horned Frogs

Listen, I didn’t want to do this. You probably didn’t want to read this. But you knew it had to be done.

TCU was 5-7 in 2021 and the Horned Frogs hired Sonny Dykes from SMU and it felt like a long rebuild was on the horizon. But the Horned Frogs started out hot and were winning games left and right. Before we knew it, the Horned Frogs were 12-0 to end the regular season with some incredible down-to-the-wire wins (Baylor).

They lost in the Big 12 title game to Kansas State but everyone wanted to see college football’s favorite underdog make the playoff — and they did.

TCU shocked Michigan in the first game before getting absolutely molly-whopped by Georgia in the championship. It just felt like the talent gap was unfathomable.

How was TCU so shockingly good last season after going 5-7 in 2021? Max Duggan and Quentin Johnston. Both are now gone.

How does a coach who had won 10 games in a single season just once before come in and turn a 5-7 team into a playoff team? Honestly not sure.

So fraud watch it is.

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