For football players, playing in a bowl game often means missing out on things normal college students take for granted.

Last year, for TCU, it was spending Christmas at home.

This year, it was graduation.

With the team leaving for San Diego Saturday, graduating TCU players were unable to attend graduation ceremonies, which were held the same day at the Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.

But the graduating Horned Frogs won’t go unnoticed.

Ten graduating members of the TCU football program, including eight current players, will be honored in a graduation ceremony Tuesday afternoon at the team hotel in San Diego.

Braylon Broughton, Tekerrein Cuba, Robert Deck, Kyle Dooley, Kris Gardner, Jonathan Jones, Jeff Olson and Spencer Thompson will receive their degrees Tuesday at 5 p.m.

Thompson will be earning his master’s degree.

Former TCU wide receivers and current student coaches Alonzo Adams and Garrett Winsett will also be receiving their degrees.