No. 3 TCU enters the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday against No. 1 Georgia as a 12.5-point underdog, but first-year coach Sonny Dykes said Tuesday that the Horned Frogs believe they shed the label of a Cinderella team weeks ago.
TCU was picked to finish seventh in the Big 12 conference and is now in position to win the program's first national title since 1938. Dykes conceded that most within the program would admit this past summer they didn't think they'd be playing for the national title.
It wasn't that they didn't think they were capable of it, Dykes said, "we just hadn't done it together.