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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Dave Aranda remembers being a broke young coach watching bootleg tapes of Gary Patterson to learn how he taught and ran his defenses. When Aranda and 14th-ranked Baylor play Saturday at TCU, it will be the first time since 1997 that Patterson won't be on the sideline during a Horned Frogs game.

Not even TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati envisioned such an abrupt ending to Gary Pattersons more than two decades as head coach of the Horned Frogs.

TCU and No. 14 Baylor will renew an old rivalry Saturday under anything but normal circumstances.

No. 4 Oklahoma could hardly wait to get started on what the Sooners hope is another perfect final month of the regular season under coach Lincoln Riley.

TCU head coach Gary Patterson has decided to resign. The athletic director released a statement saying that Patterson's time with TCU is over.

Not even TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati envisioned such an abrupt ending to Gary Patterson's more than two decades as head coach of the Horned Frogs. “Frankly, it’s a place that it was almost kind of unimaginable not too long ago,” Donati said Tuesday, two days after the school and Patterson agreed to immediately part ways.

TCU has mutually agreed to part ways with coach Gary Patterson after 21-plus years with him at the head of the Horned Frogs football program.

Gary Patterson has been head coach of the Horned Frogs since 2000.

Gary Patterson is out at TCU after 20 years as coach of the Horned Frogs, the Big 12 school announced on Sunday night, a day after Pattersons team lost its third game in a row, a 31-12 decision at Kansas State.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- TCU and football coach Gary Patterson mutually agreed to immediately part ways Sunday after nearly 21 seasons.