Trevone Boykin rushed for 123 yards and three touchdowns and passed for 219 yards and another score as sixth-ranked TCU pulled away from #7 Kansas State 41-20 before 48,012 Saturday night at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Forth Worth bringing to a halt the Wildcats five-game winning streak.
The Horned Frogs scored on their first two possessions as Boykin scored on a two-yard run and then threw a 10-yard scoring strike to David Porter for an early 14-0 lead. K-State then responded when Quarterback Jake Waters connected with Tyler Lockett on a 70-yard touchdown pass to bring the score to within 14-7. One of the key moments of the game came late in the first half after a TCU Field Goal when Lockett’s kickoff return for a touchdown was called back by a holding penalty on Stanton Weber.
The third quarter proved to be K-State’s undoing as TCU took the second half kickoff and marched 60 yards in five plays with Boykin running the final 19 and flipping into the end zone to give the Frogs a 24-7 lead. K-State responded with a 15-yard Waters scoring strike to Curry Sexton but the Horned Frogs found the end zone again less than a minute later on Aaron Green’s 65-yard run and TCU led 31-14.
From there the Horned Frogs added 10 more points on a Jaden Oberkrom 26-yard Field Goal and Boykin’s 23-yard run for his third touchdown of the night. Joe Hubener finished out the scoring for K-State with a six-yard touchdown run providing the final 41-20 margin after Matthew McCrane’s PAT was blocked.
The Wildcat Defense which averaged giving up just over 100 yards a game on the ground was torched for 334 yards rushing by the Horned Frogs and 553 overall. K-State was held to a season-low 34 yards rushing, Waters had 291 yards passing with the two touchdowns and also threw his first interception since the loss to Auburn in September. The bright spot was Lockett who caught 11 passes for 196 yards and became K-State’s all-time leading receiver with 3,073 receiving yards surpassing his Father Kevin.
Kansas State (7-2, 5-1) which lost in conference play for the first time, is off next week before traveling to West Virginia for a Thursday night game on November 20.
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