Editor's note: This is the fourth installment of a five-article countdown on the biggest questions and issues for TCU football this spring.
If Gary Patterson has taught us anything during his 19-season tenure as TCU football’s head coach, you can bank on the Horned Frogs defense being ready for the fight when it counts.
From TCU’s days of bouncing around the mid-majors to finally landing the Big 12 in 2012, defensive consistency has been a staple of the Patterson era. Even an injury-prone 2018 team wasn’t stopped from finishing atop the conference in total defense.