After Saturday, Kansas State football’s Sunflower Showdown streak can stroll into any local gas station, buy itself a lottery ticket, and then maybe, after that, some fireworks.
Heck, here in a few weeks, it can vote in its first election.
The Wildcats (4-2, 1-2 Big 12) used a strong final three quarters to come away with their 18th-straight win over rival Kansas (2-4, 0-3), 35-24, at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan.
“Proud of our guys; thought the resiliency and the fight through the ebbs and flows of the ball game were fantastic,” said head coach Collin Klein, who won his first Big 12 game as a head coach on Saturday. “The energy and the camaraderie and the communication to fix some of the issues that we were having and to stay together through those ups and downs was, so proud of them and so proud of the effort and the focus that they had this week of knowing what a big game this was to our program and our players and all K-Staters everywhere.”
After a first quarter in which the Wildcats fell behind by 10 points, K-State’s defense managed to hold the Jayhawks to just one more touchdown in the rest of the game, while the K-State offense absolutely ran the visitors over, ending the game with 359 rushing yards as part of a 568-yard day.
