Despite a weather delay and a five-hour game, the Frogs defeated the Cincinnati Bearcats, 45-23.

TCU opened the game by stopping Cincinnati on fourth down, getting the ball on the Cincinnati 34 on its first possession. Quarterback Josh Hoover then threw a three-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Joseph Manjack IV to put the Frogs up 7-0. 

TCU then forced a Bearcat punt after a three-and-out. After the play blew dead, the game went into a weather delay.

Once the game resumed, TCU drove down the field, and eventually Hoover threw his second touchdown pass of the day to wide receiver Eric McAlister, making it 14-0. 

Cincinnati then responded with a score, making it 7-14 before Hoover threw a 69-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jordan Dwyer, putting the frogs up 21-7 to close out the first quarter. 

The Bearcats drove down and scored to make it 14-21 before forcing TCU to go three-and-out and to punt. The punt was then muffed with TCU recovering the ball. The Frogs then had to settle for a 32-yard field goal from kicker Nate McCashland, putting the Frogs up 24-14.

Cincinnati drove down and hit a field goal of their own. The Frogs answered with a rushing touchdown from running back Jeremy Payne. The Bearcats then got the ball with 23 seconds in the half but ran out the clock for halftime, making it 31-17 at the half.

TCU opened up the second half right where they left off, scoring on a 44-yard reception from Manjack IV that was fumbled in the end zone and recovered by Dwyer, making it 38-17.

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The scoring slowed down with multiple punts before the Bearcats scored to make it 38-23. Cincinnati failed the two-point attempt. 

The Frogs continued to show the offensive firepower, scoring on a 51-yard rushing touchdown by Payne. TCU then forced a punt and ran out the clock to win 45-23. 

TCU had a massive day across the board, with Hoover finishing with over 300 yards and four touchdown passes, along with Payne finishing with 174 rushing yards and two scores. Three receivers recorded touchdowns with Manjack IV, Dwyer and McAlister all catching at least one, with Dwyer having two. 

McAlister moved up to second place on the all-time single-season receiving yards for TCU, with 1,121 receiving yards. Josh Doctson is first with 1,327 yards during his 2015 season. 

The Frogs will now wait at least a week to find out their bowl game and who they will face to end the season.