{"id":212929,"date":"2025-12-31T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212929\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:56:08","slug":"frogs-rally-for-thrilling-victory-over-16-usc-in-alamo-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/212929\/","title":{"rendered":"Frogs Rally for Thrilling Victory over #16 USC in Alamo Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Legend of the Alamo.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/ken-seals\/17434\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17434\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Seals<\/a>, in his first start in his final game as a TCU Horned Frog, led a furious rally from an 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to an overtime victory over No. 16 USC to add to TCU&#8217;s storied history of thrillers in the Alamo Bowl.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFacing 3rd-and-20 in the game&#8217;s first overtime period, having watched USC&#8217;s explosive offense held to a field goal, Seals dumped the ball off to running back <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/jeremy-payne\/17429\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17429\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Payne<\/a> who proceeded to make one defender miss, then another, and another, and yet one more. Payne&#8217;s feet stayed in bounds, and it was all purple daylight from there to send the partisan TCU crowd into a frenzy.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTCU moved to 3-0 in the Alamo Bowl, and in each game, the good guys have trailed by at least 10 points.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNever say die, Frogs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe game started slow as Seals and first-time playcaller <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/mitch-kirsch\/1738\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1738\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Kirsch<\/a> found their footing. After the Trojans broke open the scoring on a field goal, Seals heated up. leading the Horned Frog offense down the field to score early in the second to take the lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSeals would continue to dazzle, using his feet to find the end zone again and get TCU a 14-10 lead. After a pair of key PBU&#8217;s in the end zone by <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/bud-clark\/17386\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17386\" target=\"_blank\">Bud Clark<\/a>, the Horned Frogs would enter halftime with a narrow 14-13 advantage.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUSC picked off TCU on its first drive, but <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/channing-canada\/17486\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17486\" target=\"_blank\">Channing Canada<\/a> returned the favor in the end zone to keep the Horned Frogs in front.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Frogs managed just 35 total yards of offense compared to 40 yards of penalties in the third quarter and trailed 24-14 with 9:37 to go. Then, Seals and the offense went on an 11-play, 75-yard drive to draw it to within a field goal, capped by Payne&#8217;s first score of the game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOn USC&#8217;s ensuing possession, attempting to salt away the game, Trojan quarterback Jayden Maiava attempted to connect with freshman receiver Tanook Hines \u2013 he of 163 receiving yards on the night already \u2013 but TCU freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/gofrogs.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/gil-jackson\/17460\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17460\" target=\"_blank\">Gil Jackson<\/a> wouldn&#8217;t allow the completion to force a punt.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSeals and the offense, cool as ever, went 59 yards on 13 plays to setup Kyle Lemmerman&#8217;s 27-yard field goal as time expired to tie the game and force overtime.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAnd with Bram Kohlhausen watching along from the sidelines, new legends of the Alamo were born.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Legend of the Alamo. \u00a0 Ken Seals, in his first start in his final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-212929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}