A remarkable season ended in disappointment for TCU, which hopes this CFPlayoff run is the start of something bigger, writes PaulMyerberg.
This run could remain an aberration even after the playoff format expands to a 12-team format. That the Horned Frogs reached this point at all still allows other programs cut from a similar cloth to dream big while proving that an outsider can reach this point in the face of the upper crust that dominates the FBS.
As the Frogs head into the offseason with new notoriety, heightened expectations and enormous reason for optimism in the team's direction under Dykes, there's something to be said of the measuring stick provided by the most lopsided loss in a championship game since the FBS adopted the Bowl Championship Series format in 1998.
Beginning with next year's season opener against Colorado, the Horned Frogs will be expected to play at a new standard. The last program to make a similar leap onto the national stage was Clemson, which lost to Alabama in 2016 but used that as a springboard to two national championships in the next three seasons.
After spending the majority of this season discounted as a legitimate contender, the Frogs now must battle the negative perception that comes with a historic loss. The result still says less about TCU than it does about Georgia: Maybe only Alabama, losers of two games by a combined four points during the regular season, or Ohio State, which came within a field goal of winning the Peach Bowl, could have stopped the Bulldogs' seemingly predestined march toward perfection.
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