Video: Gary Patterson halts TCU's Rose Bowl victory dunk, but only momentarily

The victory Gatorade bath: A fun, classic way to celebrate a big win, unless you happen to be the guy getting blindsided by a bucketful of icy liquid, in which case the appreciation may only come with a dry pair of clothes in the locker room. All coaches hate the initial moment of shock. Some of them actively dread it. Last month, BYU's Bronco Mendenhall even managed to elude it completely.

But TCU's Gary Patterson, as the clock wound down tonight on the Horned Frogs' 21-19 Rose Bowl victory over Wisconsin to cap a 13-0 season, may be the first coach to preemptively stop a pending victory bath in its tracks:

Nick Saban wholeheartedly approves of colleague's sense of self-preservation, even if Patterson didn't actually stop the bath so much as he delayed it:

[Rewind: Mike Tomlin threatens Gatorade-dumpers]

The players succeeded in emptying an entire bucket over his head a few minutes later, as Patterson jogged to midfield to meet with vanquished Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema. Patterson was drenched from head-to-toe throughout the post-game trophy ceremony, proving once again the age-old wisdom: You can never really stop the victory dunk. You can only hope to contain it.

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