TCU defeated Tennessee Tech 62-7 Saturday despite the many mistakes the Horned Frogs made on the field, TCU head coach Gary Patterson said.

"We made too many mistakes," Patterson said. "It doesn't matter what the score is."

TCU gave up many key plays due to penalties during the game, losing 75 yards in penalties alone to Tennessee Tech.

Quarterback Andy Dalton said, "It seemed like there were four penalties back to back to back...that just hurt us and we can't have penalties to stop a drive."

Award-winning country band Lady Antebellum will take a break from its fall tour schedule to perform on campus, a Brown-Lupton University Union administrator said.

Student Government Association President Marlon Figueroa said SGA members wanted to bring in someone big to commemorate the university's 100th year in Fort Worth as well as the university's recent athletic and academic success.

While most Horned Frog fans are probably complaining about Boise State University getting a little, um, "help", from the refs against tenth-ranked Virginia Tech University on Monday, few are really realizing how this Boise State win is awesome for TCU down the road.

Thanks in large part to the Boise State win, for the first time in BCS history, two teams that are not in a BCS automatic qualifying conference are ranked among the top five in the nation.

Saturday the Horned Frog Football team will play its last home season opener in Amon G. Carter stadium before the stadium is renovated at the end of the season.

The Horned Frogs open play Tennessee Tech, a team that Head Coach Gary Patterson has a personal history with. Patterson received a master's degree in educational administration from Tennessee Tech in 1984 and was the linebackers coach for two seasons. However, Patterson said he didn't have many positive memories during his time at Tennessee Tech.

The successful relationships between individual students and faculty members are responsible for the university's recent awards and recognitions, Chancellor Victor Boschini told students and faculty at the University Convocation and Founders' Celebration Thursday.

For the first time ever, the university was ranked as a top 20 "Up-and-Coming National University" in a U.S. News & World Report list, he said. In addition, the university has repeatedly been acknowledged as a top 100 University in the magazine's Best Colleges list, moving up 11 slots from last year, he said.

As Greek life picks up at the start of the fall semester, the new director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Shannon Sumerlin wants to turn plans into action.

The university hired Sumerlin in May to supervise the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council, the two governing bodies that oversee fraternities and sororities on campus.

Mike Russel, executive director for Student Affairs Administration, wrote in an e-mail that Sumerlin met all and exceeded most of the qualifications for the position.

Sumerlin said that getting hired at TCU was a good fit for her.