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2013 TCU Horned Frogs football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ4629908 ↗
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The 2013 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Playing as a member of the Big 12 Conference (Big 12), the team was led by head coach Gary Patterson, in his 13th year, and played its home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Schedule

Schedule source:

Game summaries

Vs. LSU

Southeastern Louisiana

@ Texas Tech

SMU

@ Oklahoma

Kansas

This was TCU's first conference win at home since joining the Big 12 in 2012. The three conference games won in their inaugural Big 12 season were all on the road.

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This entry incorporates text from “2013 TCU Horned Frogs football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.