TCU football sheds ‘Cinderella’ label, moment approaching against Georgia ‘not too big’

TCU v Baylor WACO, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 19: Head coach Sonny Dykes of the TCU Horned Frogs celebrates with linebacker Zach Marcheselli #34 of the TCU Horned Frogs after the Horned Frogs beat the Baylor Bears 29-28 at McLane Stadium on November 19, 2022 in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) (Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

January 4, 2023 at 3:36 p.m. UTC

By Mike Griffith, DawgNation

ATHENS —The glass slipper no longer fits TCU football, per Coach Sonny Dykes.

“The question about the Cinderella thing, I think for a while in some ways we probably viewed ourselves as that early on, because we were figuring this thing out,” said Dykes, the first-year coach of a Horned Frogs team that was picked to finish seventh in the Big 12 coming off a 5-7 season.

“I think the Cinderella label probably started to wear off a little bit after the three-game gauntlet where we had to play three or four on the road, West Virginia, Texas and Baylor.

“I think at that point our guys started to believe, okay, we’re a real football team and we’re a battle-hardened team and we’ve had to overcome some adversity. And you know what? We have a chance to make a run.”