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Baby aspirin? Put it on Patterson’s Christmas list ahead of Cheez-It Bowl against Cal

Don’t be surprised if TCU coach Gary Patterson adds baby aspirin to his Christmas wish list this holiday season.

That’s what Patterson joked he’d need if TCU and Cal are headed toward a gritty, grind-it-out game at the Cheez-It Bowl in Phoenix on Dec. 26.

“When you get to my age, you have got to take a lot of baby aspirin when you do that,” Patterson said, chuckling.

Well, all signs point toward this TCU-Cal matchup fitting the “gritty” and “grind-it-out” bill. Vegas has pegged TCU as 2-point favorites over Cal, according to VegasInsider.