College GameDay isn’t on campus this week, but if it was it would likely be in Stillwater, where No. 9 Oklahoma State hosts No. 20 TCU (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN). Someone else that won’t be in Stillwater -- or, at least impacting the action at Boone Pickens Stadium? TCU running back Kyle Hicks.
Hicks rushed 11 times for 84 yards in the first half of the Frogs’ 56-36 win over SMU but did not appear in the second half. Head coach Gary Patterson indicated afterward that the unspecified injury will keep him out of next week’s game.
Patterson says RB Kyle Hicks probably out for Oklahoma State. Didn't play second half today. 'Got dinged again.'
— Carlos A. Mendez (@calexmendez) September 16, 2017
Darius Anderson carried the load for TCU in the second half, finishing the day with 14 rushes for 89 yards and two touchdowns.
Anderson has been the featured back in TCU’s rushing attack thus far, carrying the ball 42 times to Hicks’s 23. But Hicks still adds a dimension Anderson does not; the senior has caught three passes thus far this season and hauled in 47 a year ago in addition to his team-leading 203 carries.
