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TCU looks to build on win over BYU

Oct 25, 2008 - 10:33 AM Wyoming (2-5) at (15) TCU (7-1), 6:00 pm EDT

FORT WORTH, Texas (Ticker) -- After ending the longest winning streak in the Football Bowl Subdivision, TCU is in position to make a run at the Mountain West Conference title it last won in 2005.

Boasting the top defense in the FBS, the 15th-ranked Horned Frogs seek their fourth straight victory Saturday when they host Wyoming.

Last Thursday, TCU (7-1, 4-0 Mountain West) hammered then-No. 8 Brigham Young, 32-7, snapping the Cougars' 16-game winning streak. The victory lifted the Horned Frogs into a tie with Utah atop the conference standings.

The Mountain West title could be decided when TCU visits Utah on November 6. BYU has won the last two conference championships.

TCU, whose only loss came to then-No. 2 Oklahoma on September 27, has been winning behind a stingy defense that leads the FBS in a number of categories, including rushing defense (21.0 ypg) and total defense (218.0 ypg).

In six of their seven wins this season, the Horned Frogs have held their opponent under 10 points, including the last three. The only exception was a 31-14 victory over Stanford.

That spells bad news for Wyoming (2-5, 0-4), which is 116th out of 119 teams in the FBS in total offense. The Cowboys are averaging only 257 yards per game.

Wyoming has been shut out in two of its last four contests and has scored just seven points in the last two games.

The Cowboys are coming off a 40-7 loss to Utah in which it managed only 68 yards passing as Karsten Sween threw three interceptions.

Wyoming does have the second-leading rusher in the Mountain West in senior Devon Moore, who has run for 688 yards and three carries.

Moore had success against TCU last year, rushing for 135 yards of the Cowboys' 232 yards in a 24-21 win in Laramie.