TCU may have lost to Kansas State on championship weekend, but that didn’t make a difference as the team landed in the College Football Playoff anyway.

With that, the Horned Frogs joined the likes of Georgia, Ohio State and Michigan. Many people see this as the committee doing things the right way in a manner that they have failed to do several times in the past. College football analyst Chris Fowler recently weighed in on the subject, reflecting some of the same sentiments as Tim Brando.

“It tells you that they have integrity and that this brand bias thing, which is thrown around very loosely, and very often doesn’t really hold water,” he said.

“I understand why TCU fans had some anxiety after that narrow loss. They do remember 14, dropping from 3 to 6 after a win. That’s never going to be forgotten in the Big 12. But they’ve got a championship game now, and they lose it and it still didn’t punish TCU. I think TCU plays in a much better league than most fans out there realize. The committee knows how balanced the Big 12 is, there’s not the Flotsam and Jetsam, to use a Miami phrase, I’m down here, at the bottom of the league. Every team is tough, even Kansas, which used to be that team, can play football. So TCU navigating through that. Undefeated in the regular season and lost by about that much in the championship game and the committee understood that.”

As TCU heads into some thick competition in postseason action, it will be interesting to see just how well the Horned Frogs can hang with split opinions on their ability to play against the very top teams in the nation.