Kansas State Wildcats | “We’re Mad…We Want This Win”

“It’s been 2 1/2 months”.

“We’re just exhausted of losing”, defensive tackle Travis Britz told The Wichita Eagle. I have a feeling the teams that caught them early in the year are going to be lucky they did because it looks like this team might have things figured out. You got your easy win over Kansas, you put up a ton of yards and you toyed with the backups seeing time in the second half.

ABOUT KANSAS STATE (3-2, 0-2): Quarterback Joe Hubener (826 yards passing, four TDs) has 224 rushing yards and six scores after a 111-yard, four-TD performance against TCU. They got nine days between that game and their second game, but since then, the games have come every week. He’s been the best Iowa State defender through five games.

“Everybody said when we weren’t in this league and we won, we won because we didn’t play anybody”, Patterson said.

The only blemish on the Bears was on special teams with a fair-catch, forget to get out of the way if you don’t catch it, turnover by Lynx Hawthorne.The defensive secondary allowed a few passes that could have been caught by Jayhawk receivers but were dropped.

“I really feel like last week was better for us, as far as having a complete win”, Briles said. That’s exactly where we’re at. “There’s no magic to it”. The Wildcats made the kick, but the choice gave Boykin the ball back with two timeouts and time to work with. However, head coach Art Briles said the Bears did not flex their muscles as impressively as they could have in the blowout win.

K-STATE’S LATE SWOONS: Kansas State has lost two straight after struggling to keep momentum going in the second half. The Longhorns never trailed and led in yardage 368-278 with the Sooners unable to move the ball at all on the ground.

“It’s what everybody signed up for, ” West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said Monday on the weekly Big 12 coaches teleconference.

Issahaku is a redshirt freshman from Norcross, Ga., who played quarterback in high school. The burnt orange side of the Cotton Bowl had a bit more room than normal at kickoff, but that was quickly rectified. However, getting that first down just inside the TCU 20 would have been immensely valuable because it would have enabled Kansas State to drain clock and exhaust TCU’s supply of timeouts.

“That’s the way it’s going to be all year”, Patterson said. “It helped us grow as a team, winning in Minnesota and Lubbock, helped us grow and build more confidence”. Key to it is, it’s their job to cover.

Boykin is hogging all the Heisman attention in Fort Worth, but what about Doctson? “Each week we don’t take anything for granted”, Russell said. But sometimes offenses are so superior there’s not a sure way to slow them down, no matter how prepared a defense tries to be. “We come in here, and we turn it up”. “But we are doing as much research as we possibly can to see if there is anything that should be different than what we are doing”.

You could make a good argument that the Bears should be first or second here, but they’re still being punished for their bottom-of-the-barrel nonconference schedule. Looking back, he doesn’t think they closed out practices as strong as they could have while preparing for TCU.