The TCU Horned Frogs have become a staple in the College Football Top 25 as an emerging powerhouse program in college football. TCU has not been afraid to make moves to improve their conference affiliation and college football opportunities playing in the WAC, Conference USA and Mountain West Conference since 2000 and TCU will make the move to the Big East in football in 2012. TCU has had a lot of bowl game experience in program history having appeared in the Cotton Bowl 6 times before 1960. In recent years TCU and Boise State have been frequent opponents in bowl games having faced off three times in the 2000s including the 2010 Fiesta Bowl.