LAWRENCE, Kansas — On the day when the college football world unexpectedly focused its attention on a place nobody could have predicted before the season, TCU and Kansas delivered a fantastic game and Horned Frogs receiver Quentin Johnston delivered a performance worthy of primetime despite the brunch-hour start.
To say there was a concerted effort to get Johnson the ball Saturday would be an understatement. He finished with 14 catches for 206 yards on 16 targets as TCU pulled out a thrilling 38–31 win with College GameDay in the house. No other TCU pass-catcher had more than four targets, and Johnston’s target share accounted for half of quarterback Max Duggan’s non-intercepted passes.
“Number one, he was healthy. He had a couple games where he probably wasn’t healthy,” Horned Frogs coach Sonny Dykes said of his team’s leading receiver after the game. “It goes back to practice. I know that’s kind of the lame answer and nobody wants to hear that, but he just had such a great week of practice, and Max threw him the ball over and over in practice and he made plays.
