In TCU coach Gary Patterson’s mind, there aren’t different levels of losses. A loss is a loss, regardless of who the opponent is or the point differential.
“There’s no such thing as not a bad loss,” Patterson said earlier this week. “It doesn’t matter if it’s one point. It doesn’t matter if it’s 100 points. It doesn’t matter who it’s to – a loss is a loss.”
But Patterson acknowledged a loss to a program such as Kansas is a little different than, say, Ohio State. The Jayhawks hadn’t won a Big 12 game since November 2016, a stretch of 14 games, and they had never beaten the Frogs in conference play.