The most useful number from TCU's Saturday is the yardage. The Frogs outgained West Virginia 484-265 and still lost, after Craig opened by completing his first 10 passes. That's the TCU season in short: an offense that moves the ball and a scoreboard that doesn't show it. The Frogs lost 13-21 at UCF and 10-17 to BYU at home, and in all 3 of their latest losses they scored 20 points or fewer.
Kansas has been all over the place. The Jayhawks put up 55 on Middle Tennessee, then gave up 41 at Utah and 35 at Kansas State in back-to-back road losses. Both of those defensive collapses came away from Lawrence, and this is another road game. The Baylor win took a Blake Herold block of a 45-yard field goal try with 22 seconds left, so it was about as close as a game gets. A late escape like that says plenty about this team's toughness but not much about its margin for error.
There's a common opponent, though it doesn't settle much. TCU won 17-6 at Baylor, and Kansas edged the Bears by 1 at home. The early forecast for Fort Worth calls for about 80 degrees, cloudy skies and winds near 15 mph. That's a week-old forecast, but if the wind holds it matters for an offense built around Craig's arm. It also matters for a game that could well come down to one kick.