Chandler Morris: TCU 'knows what the blueprint looks like' for making the College Football Playoff

TCU came within a game of picking up the hardware that every team is chasing after last season. Now, that experience has given the Horned Frogs the road map to potentially winning it all this season instead.

TCU QB Chandler Morris joined ‘Andy Staples On3’ on Sunday to discuss his team’s upcoming season. While they fell short against Georgia in Los Angeles back in January, he said their season-long run to a national championship appearance showed them the steps that they must take to get back to that stage again.

“There’s a ton (of confidence). I mean I tell the guys all the time that we know what the blueprint looks like,” Morris said. “We have the blueprint. We’ve seen what it looks like to go and be on that stage that we want to be on. Now it’s about just going out and executing and doing it.”

However, no one said that that path is easy. It’s going to come with its ups, downs, and, frankly, steps that they aren’t going to want to do sometimes according to Morris. Still, in order to achieve their ultimate goal, he says that they’re imploring one another to make the necessary sacrifices to reach those heights again and, potentially, seal the deal this time around.

“It’s the want. We’ve got to have the want to do it,” said Morris. “Those mornings you don’t want to wake up, you don’t want to go to workouts at 5:50 in the morning? When you notice that, you recognize that? You tell yourself, ‘Alright, well, good. I’ve got to go dominate now.'”

“Just kind of having that mindset. And, really, doing the things that we don’t want to do at a high level,” said Morris.

TCU went 13-2 last year for one of their best finishes ever as a program as they won the Big 12’s regular season title and made it into the College Football Playoff for the first time ever. After a win over Michigan to advance to the national title game, though, they were bludgeoned by the Bulldogs by a score of 65-7 inside SoFi Stadium.

That blowout under college football’s brightest lights doesn’t take too much away from the Horned Frogs’ fantastic run. They just didn’t accomplish the mission that they set out for. Even so, if nothing else, it has since given Morris and his teammates the confidence to attempt to do it again and a step-by-step process of how they might be able to do so.