Nothing came easy on Saturday, but TCU football's hopes of finishing the 2018 regular season with a winning record aren't dead just yet after squeezing past Kansas State in a 14-13 victory at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas.
With three games left, head coach Gary Patterson and the Horned Frogs (4-5) will have to find the win column two more times in order to achieve bowl eligibility. And with the trends this season, that might require emerging victorious in yet another close, low-scoring affair before it's all said and done.
Here are three takeaways from Patterson's time on the Big 12 football coaches teleconference Monday morning as TCU looks to improve to 2-0 in the month of November at West Virginia on Nov.