When Kansas State quarterback Jake Waters ran through a big aperture and into the end area for the ambitious touchdown with a little over a minute larboard adjoin the Iowa State Cyclones on Saturday, it aloft the age-old question: did they leave too abundant time on the clock? In the end the acknowledgment was no, but there was no curtailment of backward brawl as the no. 20 Wildcats squeaked out a 32-38 achievement in this one.
With no timeouts left, Iowa State got the adventitious to drive with no timeouts and defective a touchdown. Sam B. Richardson would accept to accomplish acute throws and advance an able drive, with the absolute acreage in advanced of the Cyclones and the alarm melting away. Richardson did aloof that to cantankerous midfield afterwards acrimonious up a fourth bottomward conversion.
Faced with addition fourth bottomward with 36 abnormal left, Richardson could not acquisition any added magic. The Wildcats sacked Richardson and concluded the game, acceptable a key bold on the road.
Both teams went on spurts in this game. Kansas State jumped out to a 13-0 lead, alone to abandonment 28 changing credibility and abatement way abaft activity into halftime. From there it was a affecting improvement in the additional half, keyed in ample allotment by the actuality that the Wildcats' aegis pitched a annihilation in the third and fourth abode of this one.
Waters was the brilliant of this game, befitting the Wildcats in it with his arm and with his legs. In absolute he threw for 239 yards and rushed for 138 yards and two touchdowns. He was decidedly able active the ball, converting key aboriginal downs and ultimately the acceptable touchdown with his legs.
By alarming this advance backward and falling to 0-2, the Cyclones acquisition themselves off to a daydream start. Between this absent befalling and a accident to FCS assertive North Dakota State in the aperture week, Iowa State finds itself off to a abhorrent alpha and defective to regroup for the butt of their schedule. Their abutting bold comes one anniversary from now on the alley adjoin the Iowa Hawkeyes.
As for Bill Snyder and the Wildcats, they are now 2-0 and about-face their absorption to a big showdown with the Auburn Tigers on Thursday, September 18th.
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