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TCU athletic director claps back at report about national championship ticket allotment

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Still a few days before the College Football Playoff national championship, a report surfaced saying TCU hadn’t yet sold out its ticket allotment. That report got shot down in a big way Wednesday night when the Horned Frogs’ athletic director stepped in.

On Dec. 31, The Action Network’s Darren Rovell tweeted TCU didn’t sell out its allotment of tickets for the matchup against Georgia at SoFi Stadium and that “all requests made through the program were fulfilled.” A few days later, Jeremiah Donati clapped back, saying the tickets did sell out — and some people were too late.

“Fake news,” Donati tweeted. “Was ironically just in our ticket office and confirmed. We sold out of our allotment with well over 5,000 ticket requests we couldn’t fill. Feel free to contact me directly in the future Darren with your questions.”

TCU punched its ticket to the national championship with a thrilling victory over Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Eve. It’ll be quite a way to cap off Sonny Dykes’ first season with the program, and the title game kicks off Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m. ET in Los Angeles.

Sonny Dykes explains the moment he knew this TCU team could be special

TCU coach Sonny Dykes knew what his team was capable of achieving after its performance in the Big 12 opener. The Horned Frogs turned in a dominant 55-24 victory against Oklahoma that day, catapulting themselves into the top 25.

Now with Dykes getting ready to lead TCU into the national championship game against Georgia, he took a moment to reflect on that season-defining game against the Sooners.

“I think the Oklahoma game is when we saw, okay, look, here’s what we’re capable of because we played really good football on all three sides of the ball,” Dykes said. “We played great offense, great defense, great special teams in that game. It was a bit of an eye-opener for me, honestly because we played okay up to that point. We felt we were playing against really good competition. And the big question we had to answer after that was how are we going to handle prosperity. And also how are we going to deal with adversity, because that’s going to happen quickly.”