TCU, Sonny Dykes reportedly agree to multi-year contract extension: Veteran coach earns new deal with Frogs
The veteran coach is sticking with the Horned Frogs after winning more games than any Big 12 team since 2022
TCU coach Sonny Dykes has agreed to a multi-year contract extension with the Horned Frogs, according to ESPN. Coming out of his fourth season at the program, Dykes is 36-17 overall at TCU, which includes 13 wins during his first year in 2022 when he led the Horned Frogs to the College Football Playoff National Championship.
Dykes made just over $7 million in salary last season, which ranked third-highest in the Big 12. The offensive guru's success rate since taking the job ahead of the 2022 campaign after leaving SMU following Gary Patterson's illustrious tenure is impressive, and now he's being rewarded for it.
Dykes, whose previous contract in Fort Worth was good through 2028, has posted consecutive 9-4 finishes.
The Horned Frogs enter a transition year under Dykes in 2026 after offensive coordinator Kendal Briles and offensive line coach Randy Clements left for vacancies on Shane Beamer's staff at South Carolina. Among several personnel changes, starting quarterback Josh Hoover entered the transfer portal and signed with reigning national champion Indiana.
Former UConn assistant Gordon Sammis will be calling plays for TCU this season, and Dykes expects fewer mistakes offensively as a result.
"Look, numbers are numbers and stats are stats," Dykes said this spring. "I think (ex-TCU quarterback) Josh (Hoover) started 31 games here as a quarterback, and we turned the ball over 40 — he turned the ball over 42 times in those 31 starts. And you look at Gordy was the offensive coordinator last year at Connecticut, and their quarterback turned it over twice."
TCU's administration has changed since Dykes' arrival. Mike Buddie became the Horned Frogs' ninth athletic director on June 1, 2025, following Jeremiah Donati's departure to South Carolina. Donati was instrumental in bringing Dykes to the Horned Frogs and had served at TCU since 2017.
TCU's QB situation in 2026
Following Hoover's transfer to Indiana and Ken Seals exhausting his eligibility, the Horned Frogs' only returning signal caller this spring is Adam Schobel. Dykes signed Harvard transfer and former three-year starter Jaden Craig with the intention that he'll start, along with true freshman Jack Daulton, an early enrollee.
Craig set single-season passing records at Harvard last season for completions (208), touchdown passes (25) and passing yards (2,869) and finished his career as the program's all-time leader in passing yards (6,074) and touchdown passes (52), per 247Sports.
Given Dykes' career success with his quarterbacks, Craig should be a difference-maker in the Big 12 this season.
"We needed to replace a quarterback with someone who had a lot of snaps, who played a lot of football," Dykes said as TCU opened spring camp last month. "Someone who's played at a high level and protected the football. ... that's a scenario we can get better at that position. We went out and found somebody that kind of checked all those boxes.
"The great thing about Jaden is there's a little bit of extra dynamic when it comes to size and strength. There's an extra running dimension that we maybe haven't had in the past."
