TCU vs. Louisiana Tech: Poinsettia Bowl Proves BCS off to Good Start

The TCU Horned Frogs were never right for the BCS this year. They proved it last night and, in the process, proved the BCS right. 

At least for now.

With a record of 10-2 at season's end, there was a chance of the Mountain West Conference-winning Horned Frogs to crash the BCS party once again. 

Instead, the voters and computers saw it fit to rank them No. 18 and left them out of the running for a BCS bowl.

For the first time in three years, Gary Patterson's team was back at the Poinsettia Bowl rather than in a BCS game.

It was the right game for them.

TCU needed a fourth-quarter comeback to upend a feisty Louisiana Tech team 31-24 last night. It was ultimately a very big win for a program heading to the Big 12 next year.

The Bulldogs gave them everything they had, just as they did against Southern Miss, Houston and Mississippi State earlier in the year.

It was a good game, but it wasn't the best of the young bowl season and that certainly says something too.

We don't usually get the chance to say this, but the BCS is off to a good start so far this bowl season. Helping keep TCU away from their big games was the right move and we can only hope the teams they did select can put together better performances.

Although this wasn't a true BCS game, we'll go ahead and give the system a 1-0 record this season.

Tonight, we'll find out if that record evens up when Boise State—whose BCS dream was derailed by TCU and was left out of the party—takes on ASU in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas.