Football can not win a slow start, dropping the Big 12 opener 31-20

The Kansas State national football team took part in Saturday night’s Big 12 match against Oklahoma State as a -5.5 point underdog, even though the Wildcats had a No. 25 country finish. , 0-1) proved the Vegas odds to be correct and fell to the Cowboys (4-0, 1- 0) 31-20.

At first, it seemed that the Wildcats might have a really good game in the offensive situation when it gets into the finish line and goes 3-0 after the first game of the game. However, K-State was unable to restrain Cowboy’s offensive attack on the first run and throughout the game. Oklahoma State managed to beat K-State from 486 to 260 yards.

“Today they got us,” head coach Chris Klieman said in an interview with K-State Athletics. “We have to get back to work. It’s a long season, and we have an awful lot of opportunities ahead of us. If we learn from this and continue to improve, we have a chance to be okay. “I’m sure our friends’ management will respond to adversity.”

While K-State struggled, he kept some momentum in the first half thanks to Malik Knowles ’99-yard starting return, which lifted the Wildcats 10-7 and 6:18 left in the first set. Spencer Sanders and the Oklahoma State offense really dominated the first half after that and didn’t look back once.

Sanders threw two goals and 344 yards, finishing 22/34 and two busy touches.

“In the beginning they got it [Sanders] going and that’s what we couldn’t get to see if Sanders gets life and confidence, ”Klieman said. “When he did, he was really tough.”

K-State’s quarterback situation was still in the air to start the game, and sophomore Will Howard and Jaren Lewis plan to get breaks and playing time throughout the game. However, Howard would have left the game with an injury, allowing Lewis to dominate the attack for most of the second half.

“[Howard] injured in the first half and could no longer go in the first half, and then at half they did some things to make him work and he tried to go in the second half, ”Klieman said,“ but he couldn’t drive the way he had to run. “

Howard placed 4 to 12 at 50 yards and three positions at 28 yards before the game started — but also added expensive fumbles to its own territory, leading to Oklahoma State points in the first quarter. Lewis ended the game 10-of-19,148 yards, with one touch and one abduction.

Cowboy’s defense bottled American runner Deuce Vaughn, who carried the ball just 13 times 22 yards in the game.

“We couldn’t use capital letters and didn’t get anything offensive other than a big play for Deuce,” Klieman said. “It was a frustrating night aggressively.”

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The K-state attack ended the season at the lowest of 62 yards on the ground and 198 in the air, while the then-ranked defense of the country gave up 132 busy yards in Saturday’s game.

Klieman put forward several reasons why the defense struggled at a loss in their post-game press conference.

“It’s a good question,” Klieman said. “We couldn’t intervene, and we couldn’t get out of the blocks. [Jaylen Warren] is a good player, there is no doubt about it, but we were a step slow, we didn’t get on our feet, and we couldn’t slow down the game enough of what you want to say, and we just didn’t get to a stop. “

The defense managed to take a stand in the second half and forced four straight three-and-a-half innings to the end of the third quarter. However, the attack was unable to take advantage and left the team to an end.

K-State will return to Manhattan next week to host the Oklahoma Sooners for sixth, hoping to take the top ten OU teams down for the third year in a row.

The match is scheduled to begin at 2.30pm and can be seen on the FOX broadcast and the sound will be broadcast via the K-State Sports Network. The radio broadcast is also provided by the K-state student radio station Wildcat 91.9.