Two years ago, TCU coach Sonny Dykes steered his team to an unbeaten regular season, an extraordinary Fiesta Bowl win over Michigan, and a trip to the national championship against Georgia. How fast things can go south in the game of college football.

It's been a tough Saturday for Sonny Dykes. The TCU head coach was ejected from his team's game during the third quarter of the "Battle for the Iron

Dykes’ predecessor, Gary Patterson, was known to lose his stuffing multiple times during a game, but he never got tossed from one of them in his 20 plus years of coaching TCU. Early in the third quarter, Dykes was ejected after he let the officials know his thoughts.

TCU football coach Sonny Dykes was ejected from Saturday's rivalry game against SMU after picking up two unsportsmanlike penalties in the second half:

UNIVERSITY PARK — If holding a 20-point halftime lead over rival TCU wasn’t enjoyable enough for SMU fans, the crowd at Ford Stadium roared as it watched TCU head coach Sonny Dykes escorted to the locker room just 24 seconds into the second half.

Horned Frogs head coach, who has also coached SMU, was ejected in third quarter of non-conference rivalry game.

TCU coach Sonny Dykes was ejected Saturday after drawing two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties at the start of the second half in the Horned Frogs' 66-42 loss against SMU, his former team.The Frogs already trailed 41-21 when a kickoff return for an apparent touchdown to start the second half was negated by a holding penalty and drew the ire of the coach.

TCU coach Sonny Dykes was ejected from the Horned Frogs' 66-42 loss to rival SMU on Saturday after earning consecutive unsportsmanlike conduct penalties in the third quarter. Dykes became the first head coach of a Power 4 program to be disqualified from a college football game for multiple unsportsmanlike conduct penalties since the NCAA established the rule in 2016.

Brashard Smith ran for 127 yards and three of his four scores while SMU also had three non-offensive touchdowns for the first time in 12 years in a 66-42 win over TCU.

Dykes was the winning coach each of the last four times the Dallas-Fort Worth rivals played. He is in his third season at TCU, which won the last two games in the series after he had led SMU to back-to-back wins in the series for the first time since 1992-93.