Sonny Dykes ejected from SMU-TCU game
As the SMU Mustangs were rolling 41-21, TCU head coach Sonny Dykes was ejected with 14:36 to go in the 3rd quarter. The head coach of the Horned Frogs was ejected after two unsportsmanlike contact flags were called early in the half.
The Mustangs put up the most points in the 1st half ever in the Battle for the Iron Skillet. The program three non-offensive touchdowns led the way for SMU as the program built a 41-21 halftime lead over Sonny Dykes’ team.
Dykes was enraged after a holding call brought back a kickoff return for a touchdown. Dykes didn’t let it go and was subsequently ejected shortly thereafter.
After Sonny Dykes was ejected, TCU quarterback Josh Hoover led a touchdown drive to close the gap to 41-28 with 11:18 to play in the 3rd quarter. Hoover hit Jack Bech for a touchdown to open the half with a scoring drive.
The Horned Frogs fell at home last week to UCF after blowing a 21-point lead. For Sonny Dykes, this wee was supposed to be about moving to 3-0 against SMU as TCU head coach. Instead, he was ejected with his team down 20 points.
“First of all, a really talented football team. I think that’s the deal,” Dykes said this week of SMU. “I think a lot of people picked them to kind of be the dark horse team to win the ACC this year. I talked to our players a little bit about this, Pro Football Focus does rankings of players and over the summer, 17 teams in the ACC, they had six of the Top 10 players in a 17-team league. We didn’t have a single player in the Top 30 in the Big 12.”
