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Purple Wimple Player of the Year: Andy Dalton  

No single Horned Frog since LT has come to define TCU’s success over multiple years like Andy Dalton has defined it since 2008.  The red-head saved his best for last, his QB rating exceeding 166 this season, while turning in the fourth-best rush totals on the team.  Jeff Ballard’s best mark was 138 in ’06, with significantly less effective running.  And when it mattered most– on the road at Utah, and in the Rose Bowl– Dalton was near perfect.  He said all year that he and his team wished most to win another chance in the BCS, and to make the most of it, and they did just that.  En route, Dalton made the fast-rising signal callers at Baylor and Utah look silly.  The quarterback led his team to a second consecutive perfect regular season, and in sharp contrast to last year, Dalton took his team onto his shoulders in the bowl, and led them to victory.  The senior thoroughly outplayed his counterpart Badger, who had won the senior quarterback award for the season.  “I knew everything they were doing,” said Dalton of the Badgers.  Wisconsin’s quarterback, in contrast, couldn’t thread the Frogs coverages often, on those pass attempts when he wasn’t being slobber-knocked by purple-clad defensemen.  In end Dalton held the better trophy: Rose Bowl Offensive MVP.  Likely he’ll enter the NFL as a draftee.  TCU will miss this senior’s experience more than any other’s in years.  (more…)