Good news for those of you who took Oregon and the under. TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin has been suspended for the Alamo Bowl after getting arrested after a bar fight where he managed to punch a cop. Yeah.
Boykin, along with junior wide receiver Preston Miller, will sit out of tonight’s Alamo Bowl, wreaking havoc at sportsbooks across the country and beyond. Here’s the video of the fight from TMZ.
“Trevone Boykin and Preston Miller have been suspended for Saturday’s game due to a violation of team rules,” TCU head coach Gary Patterson said in a statement. “We are disappointed in their actions and apologize to the TCU Horned Frogs Nation, Valero Alamo Bowl and the city of San Antonio.”
If Patterson really wanted to make it up to San Antonio and the Alamo Bowl he’d find a way to get Boykin on the field. The No. 11 Horned Frogs (10-2) were already coming into the game short-handed with an injury to future NFL wideout Josh Doctson. Boykin has been worth 325 yards passing and 55.6 yards rushing per game for the Horned Frogs and now that’s history.
On the bright side Miller isn’t much of a loss. He caught a total of one pass all season for six yards. He didn’t exactly light it up and will probably be playing at a Division I FCS or Division II school next year. Hell, North Alabama has probably already offered him a scholarship.
“It’s unfortunate for him because Trevone has meant so much to TCU,” Patterson told reports Friday. “But he understands. It wasn’t even a conversation between him and I.”
In the absence of Boykin, the Horned Frogs will likely go with senior quarterback Bram Kohlhausen who appeared in seven games this season, completing 62.8 percent of his passes for 369 yards and three touchdowns with a pick. So that’s a little bit of a drop off.
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They could also go ahead and hand the reigns to next year’s starter, redshirt freshman Foster Sawyer. Sawyer, at 6-foot-5, 228 pounds, will certainly be a more intimidating figure out on the field. Sawyer got to play in three games this season, completing just 38.5 percent of his passes for 155 yards and two touchdowns with three interceptions.
Boykin is just the latest high-profile college football player to get taken down by a security cam video. Before the season even began Florida State lost its freshman quarterback De’Andre Johnson after a video surfaced of him punching a girl at a bar. Running back Dalvin Cook was accused of punching a different woman and a completely different bar, but he was found not guilty of the crime in August. Cook never missed a game and rushed for 1,691 yards and 19 touchdowns this season.
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Boykin ‘s loss has affected the line. TCU was originally favored at -1, but now No. 15-ranked Oregon is at -6.5 and the over-under has dropped from 78.5 to 74.5.
While Boykin was fantastic as a college football quarterback, his draft stock wasn’t high. He was projected as a seventh round pick at best and this arrest probably knocks that off the table. It’s likely Boykin will get his chance, but it will have to be as an undrafted free agent.
