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Three Positive, Three Negative: Big 12 Champ.

Three Positives
  1. Timely big plays. Kansas State had seven total "explosive" plays on Saturday, including five passes from Will Howard. But the biggest, and most important, explosive play for K-State was actually two runs. The first was a 40 yard run for Malik Knowles down the sideline on a jet sweep in the first half. Later, K-State ended that drive with a TD. Still, the most integral offensive play K-State had -- other than Zentner's FG -- was Deuce Vaughn's 44-yard TD run to put K-State.
  2. Next man up. K-State saw a couple of key players get hurt in their victory, but I thought their development really showed on Saturday. Jacob Parish came in and played well at cornerback. VJ Payne played pretty well at safety in place of Kobe Savage and Cincere Mason. And RJ Garcia caught a TD pass -- his first ever.
  3. Defensive line. Coming into the game, I thought it would be important to get a quality pass rush and get Max Duggan on the ground a lot, and they did. The Wildcats sacked Duggan just once, but he was hurried on four different occasions. On of the hurries, it led to him overthrowing a wide-open man in the middle of the field. The Cats also hit Duggan pretty hard when he scrambled. But, obviously, the most important play(s) the defensive line made were the stops in overtime from the one yard line.
Three Negatives
  1. Defending QB run. Duggan was the Horned Frogs leading rusher on Saturday, finishing with 110 yards. Duggan was really effective scrambling in the fourth quarter in particular, having runs of 15, 13, 19, 40 and eight yards for a touchdown. We saw this K-State team struggle to defend Garrett Greene at West Virginia to defend the QB run, and they did again on Saturday. Both of K-State's likely opponents in the bowl game have good running QBs (Jayden Daniels at LSU and Bryce Young/Jalen Milroe at Alabama).
  2. Brents' coverage. Julius Brents had a forced fumble and an interception on Saturday, but he was also cooked in coverage by Quentin Johnston, who finished with four receptions and 139 yards, including two catches of at least 50 yards.
  3. Injury bug bites. I mentioned some of the injuries above, so no need to too great into detail. But Knowles left the game with a leg injury, according to ESPN. And Boye-Doe appeared to be bothered by something related to his ribs or shoulder after being landed on by Savion Williams.

SOLD 2 West Virginia BB tickets

2 tickets to the West Virginia BB game on Dec. 31. Very nice seats located in the new Legends Lounge Sec 18, Row 1, Seats 1,2. These are located in the boxes directly below the loge boxes with all the amenities of the loge boxes except for the tvs. Also included are passes to the Shamrock Zone. I have a VIP parking pass I can mail if given enough time before the game. $150/pair.

Football Friday Five: Plays to remember from the 2022 season


I wanted to put together a list of plays that may not stand out as meaningful for the entire season at the time, but looking back at were huge for K-State making it to the Big 12 Championship game. Therefore no plays from the Big 12 Championship game are on there. Felt these five were worth noting.

I probably missed some that the rest of you like and would love to see what everyone else had come to mind.

Football SNAP COUNTS: Big 12 Championship vs TCU

OFFENSE:
Hadley Panzer - 76
Will Howard - 76
Cooper Beebe - 76
Hayden Gillum - 76
Christian Duffie - 76
Ben Sinnott - 75
Kade Warner - 72
KT Leveston - 71
Deuce Vaughn - 68
Phillip Brooks - 68
RJ Garcia - 38
Sammy Wheeler - 24
Malik Knowles - 16
DJ Giddens - 13
Dawson Delforge - 5
Andrew Leingang - 2
Christian Moore - 2
Seth Porter - 2

DEFENSE:
VJ Payne - 78
Julius Brents - 76
Josh Hayes - 76
Austin Moore - 69
Daniel Green - 68
Drake Cheatum - 66
Felix Anudike-Uzomah - 65
Jacob Parrish - 64
Eli Huggins - 62
Khalid Duke - 54
Brendan Mott - 50
Nate Matlack - 27
Keenan Garber - 21
Robert Hentz - 18
Ekow Boye-Doe - 17
Jaylen Pickle - 15
Nick Allen - 13
Des Purnell - 12
Jake Clifton - 11
Omar Daniels - 3
Uso Seumalo - 2
Damian Ilalio - 1
Cody Stufflebean - 1

Football Why Felix Anudike-Uzomah wore a TCU towel after Saturday's win and where it is now


Fun story from @alec.busse on the keepsake Felix took from the Big 12 Championship

Sugar Bowl tickets KSU ticket office Confirmation

Has anyone received their confirmation from the ticket office yet?

I am kind of a mess…I don’t use credit cards, I only use debit cards I forgot to call the bank Friday to increase my daily limit for the transaction today. And I don know if an email has been sent, because over the weekend, I have had multiple people call me to tell me the emails they have sent me keep getting kicked back to them. Evidently there is something wrong with my email. Thanks for the help
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