FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Now that TCU has won the final game scheduled against SMU in the 110-year-old rivalry, coach Sonny Dykes and the Horned Frogs can pretty much do whatever they want with the trophy.
“Probably get a sledgehammer and break it,” Dykes joked when asked after the Horned Frogs' 35-24 win Saturday what will happen to the Iron Skillet, a replacement to the original trophy that broke several years ago. “I don't know. Our players have it right now and they're excited about it. We took a picture, now we'll probably cook something in it.”
Dykes was on the winning side five of the last six times the “Battle for the Iron Skillet” was played between the former Southwest Conference rivals . He first got back-to-back victories while coaching SMU before moving 40 miles across t