TCU closed last season with a 65-7 loss to Georgia in the College Football Playoff National Championship. 

That atrocious defensive effort, apparently, carried over into this season, after the Horned Frogs were upset by then-unranked Colorado 45-42 on their home field. 

TCU, which entered the game as the No. 17 team in the country, fell out of the rankings.

Now, one player is fed up. 

“I guess you can say it’s a wake-up call,” junior linebacker Johnny Hodges said on Tuesday, per ESPN. “I don’t know how losing in the national championship by 60 isn’t a wake-up call. Right now we’re definitely the laughingstock of college football.”

The Horned Frogs could barely make a stop against Colorado on Saturday, surrendering 565 total yards and a Colorado record of 510 passing yards to quarterback Shedeur Sanders, head coach Deion Sanders’ son. 

Hodges, last season’s Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year, made it clear that the poor effort was on the players, though, and not on defensive coordinator Joe Gillespie. 

“Having 22 missed tackles, having who knows how many missed assignments, making our defensive coordinator look awful, just making his defense look like it’s a childhood kids’ defense and him getting all this slack … So if it’s not a wake-up call, then I don’t know what it is.”

“It’s very, very upsetting that our defensive coordinator has to take all this slack when he did nothing but tell us exactly what was going to happen and put us in situations in practice that mocked the game and we weren’t able to take what he told us and bring it on the field on Saturday,” he continued. 

It was a shocking start to the season for the Horned Frogs, who went 13-2 in the regular season before falling to the Bulldogs in the championship game. 

Colorado jumped from unranked to No. 22 in the poll.

Last season, the Buffaloes finished last year 1-11 in the Pac-12. 

TCU will host Nicholls State at 8 p.m. on Saturday night.