TCU coach sort of compares Minnesota to FCS team

TCU has done quite well in its first two games this season -- well enough, in fact, to crack the Football Outsiders' top 25 in F/+. The Big Ten has done quite poorly in its first three weeks this season -- poor enough, in fact, for us to consider the conference adopts dinosaurs with laser beams.

Enter TCU head coach Gary Patterson, whose team just beat the Big Ten's Minnesota, 30-7.

Patterson asked about his offense's progress: "I have no idea. We played Samford and then played a Big Ten team."

— David Ubben (@davidubben) September 15, 2014

It's a funny quote out of context, but he probably didn't mean it like that.

Full Patterson quote. He told me it definitely wasn't a zing at the Big Ten or Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/TwATyap6ZD

— David Ubben (@davidubben) September 15, 2014

TCU travels to play SMU next, before perhaps the toughest possible opening to the Big 12 slate: Oklahoma, Baylor and Oklahoma State.