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Mac Engel

Mac Engel: TCU’s Fiesta Bowl victory was memorable torture for fans who expect to win, and lose

GLENDALE, Ariz. — TCU’s alumni totals 98,871 and there are a few who are no longer with us who would have neither believed, but have loved, every split second of what transpired on New Year’s Eve in Arizona.

Somewhere Dan Jenkins is making all of his friends laugh with a poignant whip, that somehow never snapped, about the state of Big 10 football.

Somewhere Richard Durrett is still screaming, shaking his head, grabbing whomever is close with both hands on their shoulders, and leaning two inches from their face, “We’re going to the national championship game!”

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