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    You are at:Home»Sports»K-State Sports»K-State rallies from 11-point deficit to top Texas Tech in OT

    K-State rallies from 11-point deficit to top Texas Tech in OT

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    By KMAN Staff on November 4, 2017 K-State Sports, Sports, Top Story
    Kansas State coach Bill Snyder watches as players warm up for an NCAA college football game against Vanderbilt on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
    Kansas State coach Bill Snyder. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

    Kansas State’s first second-half comeback win since 2015 didn’t come a moment too soon.

    With bowl eligibility in question and trailing by 11 points in the fourth quarter, the outlook was bleak for the Wildcats Saturday afternoon at Texas Tech.

    A few good plays and a couple fortunate breaks later, K-State topped the Red Raiders 42-35 in overtime.

    K-State (5-4, 3-3 Big 12) started the game well, leading 17-7 in the second quarter. But Texas Tech took control of the game at that point, on both sides of the ball, and led 35-27 with less than four minutes to play.

    That stretch included three Wildcat touchdowns being nullified by penalties, which added to the frustration and seemed to indicate K-State was doomed to suffer its fourth loss of the season by a touchdown or less.

    That’s when things went from weird to weirder.

    Texas Tech (4-5, 1-5) missed a 31-yard field goal that would have put the game on ice with 3:40 remaining. Skylar Thompson, who took over for the injured Alex Delton at halftime, quickly drove K-State down the field and tied the game on a two-point conversion to Dalton Schoen with 42 seconds left.

    Then, instead of attempting to win the game in regulation, and with one of the nation’s best offenses, Red Raiders coach Kliff Kingsbury decided to take the game to overtime. He ran two plays up the middle as the final seconds ticked away and boos rained down at Jones AT&T Stadium.

    In overtime, K-State scored first on a pass from Thompson to Byron Pringle. The Wildcat defense, which was torched through the air for most of the day, earned its biggest stop of the season to escape with a win. Nic Shimonek’s fourth-down pass sailed out of the back of the end zone.

    Thompson and Delton finished the game with 263 passing yards and two scores, while Alex Barnes and Justin Silmon had 90 yards rushing on 12 carries.

     

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