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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Kansas State Football => Topic started by: CHONGS on December 03, 2022, 11:17:59 AM
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Let's go!
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Not a great start.
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But also not terrible (yet)
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Now not great
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That was pretty good coverage, not mad about that.
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They are so effing lucky
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The line moved to ksu -1, wow
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TCU is making fantastic plays right now
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They are so effing lucky
Lol wut
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They are so effing lucky
Lol wut
Just these ridic catches and crap
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Klieman is BITB at the substitution game
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We're going to get smoked
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Man, TCU has been lights out so far.
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TCU came to play....
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Welp
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Let’s start playing dirty
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if Ekow is out, pack it up
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There's a dime from Howard! Keep your heads up; Cats are still in this :ksu:
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must get td!
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Will just out here begging to be picked
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eff YEAH
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Got away with a false start lol
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LETS rough ridin' GOOOOOO
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3 and out!
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:lynchmob:
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Dirty players smdh
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Get his ass out of there
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Gotta make those hard catches
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:lynchmob: :lynchmob:
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Malik “The Jet” Knowles
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Collein Klein just had 3 amaze play calls
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Beautiful
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:excited:
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There we rough ridin' go!
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This is fun now. Hope we blow their asses out.
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Malik... Man has he been great.
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Collein Klein just had 3 amaze play calls
This man going to get paid in the off season.
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Malik!!!!!
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If he’s gonna keep being put on tv he’s gonna need a ball cap or hatless. The visor is a terrible look.
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:lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob:
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eff man 😭😭😭😭
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Why was Malik upset? I'm without sound
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Man that sucks for Malik.
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is there a dirtier team in all of college football than the Texas Catholics?
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Man, I hope Knowles is OK :cry:
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Quit hurting everyone you dirty pieces of crap :angry:
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Man that sucks for Malik.
Crushing loss
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I can't hear either what happened
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Other than tcu bring dirty pieces of crap
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Man that sucks for Malik.
Crushing loss
We are not deep enough to get around all these injuries
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Quit hurting everyone you dirty pieces of crap :angry:
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They said he limped off after the big play. Him breaking down over it I hope it’s not an acl 😭
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Quit hurting everyone you dirty pieces of crap :angry:
Facts, it's why I hate them, hurting everyone all day everyday, karma needs to strike
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devastating to watch Malik on the bench, get that rough ridin' camera out of there
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He had such an up and down career he deserves a better end
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LUNCH MOB
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oh man, now Hayes is down. . .
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:lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob:
Stop #4
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Brents is up and walking the sideline
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You have to make that catch
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You have to make that catch
Got to make that throw
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TCU is so rough ridin' lucky. I hope they don’t make the playoffs, they’ll just embarrass themselves
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You have to make that catch
Got to make that throw
Couldn’t even take a step forward into the throw because Gillum got pushed 5 yards straight back into him
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You have to make that catch
Got to make that throw
Couldn’t even take a step forward into the throw because Gillum got pushed 5 yards straight back into him
Yeah it wasn't terrible considering it was off his back foot
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Also I'm done with hypnotoad
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TCU is so rough ridin' lucky. I hope they don’t make the playoffs, they’ll just embarrass themselves
Always, it's gotta run out at some point
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Hopefully our engineering squad will be able to adjust the howitzer's precision guidance system at half
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damn, some bad first half injuries (as usual against TCU)
Boye-Dow
Knowles
Leviston
Hayes
Howard hasn't been particularly accurate, but overall Cats looking pretty good
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I’m glad we at least take some shot here.
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Man without Knowles I'm not sure if we can keep scoring.
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Hopefully our engineering squad will be able to adjust the howitzer's precision guidance system at half
:emawkid:
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Gonna have to dig deep and not let them come back, that first drive is going to be big
Also, FFS can some damn injuries vs these dirty frogs stop
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I don’t see how we can score 17 more without Malik but damnit this team has earned it. Huge balls on these cats today.
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https://twitter.com/GarthGardiner/status/1599114801325953024
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I'm way more worried about our secondary than our offense.
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https://twitter.com/GarthGardiner/status/1599114801325953024
Might want to check that math, Garth.
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I don’t see how we can score 17 more without Malik but damnit this team has earned it. Huge balls on these cats today.
Others gotta step up, and also hope you can get to Duggins more
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Man without Knowles I'm not sure if we can keep scoring.
Do we have a freshman or redshirt burner somewhere on the roster to just throw out there? We just need someone with some speed to keep the safeties from creeping up. Probably need a bit more of Giddens in the second half. The 4th and 1 should have just been another Giddens off tackle behind Beebe again. (Sorry Deuce <3)
Either way, it’s the defense continuing to step up that’s going to be difference.
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This Kroger brand Seacrest is so young and hip lmfao
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I want to fight this dude on the mic
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Never seen such a punchable
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Cf3, I laughed out loud when I saw him
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Was hoping we'd see that middle screen to DV for 6 in that last drive. (Just to hear Wyatt call it like did in 03).
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not doing too bad!
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What a play@!
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WOW
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That was so cool eff
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TCU is so rough ridin' lucky . . . :facepalm:
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Well... eff replay
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Booooo
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Always lucky TCU, always lucky
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Welp…still a stop!
:lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob:
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How can it be a pass if it never leaves your hand?????
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That could theoretically be a pump fake. What the eff
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How can it be a pass if it never leaves your hand?????
Agreed
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We gotta score here
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Just happy Malik was smiling 🥹
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R.J. Garcia !!!!
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That was a ballsy toss
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FUCKETH YEAH
That's what we needed, someone to step up
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Let's go!
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Hopefully our engineering squad will be able to adjust the howitzer's precision guidance system at half
Best engineers in the nation
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Hopefully our engineering squad will be able to adjust the howitzer's precision guidance system at half
Best engineers in the nation
Literally at work RN :gocho:
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Hopefully our engineering squad will be able to adjust the howitzer's precision guidance system at half
Best engineers in the nation
:emawkid:
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Man without Knowles I'm not sure if we can keep scoring.
Do we have a freshman or redshirt burner somewhere on the roster to just throw out there? We just need someone with some speed to keep the safeties from creeping up. Probably need a bit more of Giddens in the second half. The 4th and 1 should have just been another Giddens off tackle behind Beebe again. (Sorry Deuce <3)
Either way, it’s the defense continuing to step up that’s going to be difference.
Ok Garcia will do nicely. I just fist pumped so hard omg
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I def just reaggravated my tennis elbow on that RJ TD!
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Come on defense
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Number one and nothin’ less. Let’s get this, Cats!
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I def just reaggravated my tennis elbow on that RJ TD!
This is a setup for elbow hernias. Be careful out there.
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JFC
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rough ridin' idiot
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Dangit, I knew he was going to drop that one the way he was running to it
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How do you do that, literally how do you, your defense just does that and you do that
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If we lose, that is the play
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King Felix !!!!!!
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Oh well
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Eff
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Disastrous
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nope, jsut score again and we're cruisin'
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Hopefully the team has more resilience than I do after that
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nope, jsut score again and we're cruisin'
Us scoring to make it 28-10 is cruising, 28-17 is to close for those assholes
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Hey dorks, there's still 23 minutes left
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Hey dorks, there's still 23 minutes left
Take it up with Garth.
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Yeah not feeling good about this
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I hope we have something left
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:lol:
Hey dorks, there's still 23 minutes left
Take it up with Garth.
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need miracle turnover
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Going to be a crazy end isn't it
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Not even a little worried
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Young guys stepping up and Duggan is hurtin. I think we’re looking good but I’m sweatin for sure. :pray:
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Not even a little worried
I'm super worried. But then again I'm a giant weenie.
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Yeah, pretty worried, need a turnover
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:lol:
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OMG
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Yeah, pretty worried, need a turnover
HELLS YEAH
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Brent’s!!
:lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob:
7th stop! (6th ended in disaster)
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Let's go get some points
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Hell yeah!!
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Let's go get some points
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Let's go get some points
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Lol that interception was so casual
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:lol:
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DUECE!
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I'd like to report a murder
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It's so amazing to watch Duece in space. :emawkid: :ksu:
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How fun was that? :excited:
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I'd like to report a murder
That defender got sniped :lol:
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OK, LFG defense
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Wooooooowwwwwe
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It's so amazing to watch Duece in space. :emawkid: :ksu:
Incredible
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The Deuce is loose!
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however this game turns out, i think it's fair to say that the kstate men's football team is better than than the u.s. national men's football team. pretty good for a small state like kansas.
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After the safety got his ankles broken, he got up and started walking away before the play was over. Lol.
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Lunch Mob time to eat!
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https://twitter.com/nocontextcfb/status/1599131777708486657
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Refs trying to help TCU now
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rough ridin' Brents
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Rip that guys left kidney
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One thing, our boys are hitting hard enough to make them pay. :excited:
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Hold lol suck a dick
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2 holds
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OK, get a TD, and end this game
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Even a field goal should be enough.
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Hell even a FG would but big, but just score
Also, how big is that non-safety now
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Get a TD with 15 sec left on the clock
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Get a TD with 15 sec left on the clock
I'd take a 7:19 minute drive if it mean TCU had to have go 90+ yards
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Even a field goal should be enough.
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Hold onto your asses!
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Incredible game.
Let’s get this, Cats
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One sack and this is over
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Goddamnit
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Pick his ass off again, he's due, overthrowing all game
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Hold onto your asses!
Cardiac cats
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Pick his ass off again, he's due, overthrowing all game
He's rattled. Refs gave the last fg with their poor officiating
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80 yrds won't do it. It would be great to win by 1 point. :fatty:
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80 yrds won't do it. It would be great to win by 1 point. :fatty:
More likely we'll win by 2
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:ohno:
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FLAG!!! on them.
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80 yrds won't do it. It would be great to win by 1 point. :fatty:
More likely we'll win by 2
Yea, they'll go for two.
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How does this dude have anything left in the tank
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Come on guys
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... or we go into OT. :ohno:
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Kick a FG an win this rough rider
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... or we go into OT. :ohno:
We won't win in OT
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FG to win
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FG to win
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Time for a field goal. :driving:
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Very nervous now
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Incredibly nervous now
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A safety to win would be amaze
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need interception...
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Safety please
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There is no way we win this game
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There is no way we win this game
Yeah, not feeling great
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Ugh
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Ends on a duggan INT
Calling it now
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we are mumped...
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Confidence dropping.
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Please tell me they don't have a WR named Parker.
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Ends on a duggan INT
Calling it now
I hope so, but ugh, they always do something
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What an absolute heavyweight battle. The B12 put on a show today. Now let’s go win this damn thing!
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How good are we at 2 pt conversions?
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Only way we win is if Duggan succumbs to his internal and external bleeding
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I like our chances :crossfingers:
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Ends on a duggan INT
Calling it now
putting this out there twice for good measure
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Come on defense
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need any kind of turnover ....please....
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Yeah, not feeling this
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False start
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miracle fumble...
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False start
I thought there was one on the run they're reviewing
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Sonny is such a dork all the time.
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This is nerves city
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Sonny is such a dork all the time.
I hate his pointy rough ridin' chin
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I wish we were playing football instead of watching replays
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College overtime sucks
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:lynchmob:
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eff YES
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OMG OMG
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:lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob:
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YEA!!! :Woohoo:
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WOW!!!!! NOW DON"T eff THIS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i am glad god has seen fit to punish tcu for the arrogance of going for it on fourth.
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Do you just kick the FG now?
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I might throw up
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3rd down, the reach didn’t matter right? Momentum stopped and he went backward a little.
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i am glad god has seen fit to punish tcu for the arrogance of going for it on fourth.
truly, tcu has no one to blame but their own overweening pride.
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:peek: I can't watch
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CK, kick a FG!!! ...now!!!
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Come on Zentner!
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:ksu: :emawkid: :ksu: :emawkid: :ksu: :emawkid: :ksu: :emawkid: :ksu:
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UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
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Dr Pepper for all
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CAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTSSSS!
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YES!!!
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is there any greater glory than to be the chosen instrument of our lord's divine retribution? i can think of nothing more befitting our humble team and hungry university.
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Boys we rough ridin' did it
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Number one and nothing less, baby!!!!!
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KANSAS STATE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i wonder if kleemann chose to kick a fg in order to highlight tcu's blasphemous choice or if god himself moved the team into that position?
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Will Klieman match oscar Webers career Big 12 championships? I think he will soon. Great win for the fans who stick with the cats during the good and the bad. Go cats
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Unreal! We didn't K-State ourselves!! So huge!!
:Woot: :ksu: :Woot: :ksu: (ftp://:Woot: :ksu: :Woot: :ksu:)
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Can’t wait for the video!
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YES!
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And think about all the K-State love we'll get on ESPN and the others!! Come on in transfers!! :billdance: (ftp://:billdance:)
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Also, in a tiny but important way props to Martinez on the coin flip call :lynchmob:
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I'm buying 5 copies of the DVD for my mama!
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Thank you Kansas Voters and all the free money
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This is fantastic. I am wearing a KSU shirt and attractive women are staring at me and mouthing “I LOVE YOU” right in front of their TCU husbands.
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Thank you Kansas Voters and all the free money
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You gotta buy something you would have never bought without that. Like a dueling pistol or a Xylophone.
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How blessed are we to get to experience both LHC Bill Snyder and Chris Kiieman lead our football program. Great coaches and great people for a great and special university and people. So thankful for them.
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Thank you Kansas Voters and all the free money
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You gotta buy something you would have never bought without that. Like a dueling pistol or a Xylophone.
Fancy restaurant we'd never go to.
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eff YES!!!!!!!!
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3rd down, the reach didn’t matter right? Momentum stopped and he went backward a little.
It looked like he was on his knees before he ever reached forward.
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I am wearing a KSU shirt and attractive women are staring at me and mouthing “I LOVE YOU” right in front of their TCU husbands.
must be a day ending in "y". most likely sunday, because that is the day of our lord and those attractive women are blessed and holy in his eyes.
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:lynchmob: :lynchmob: :lynchmob:
CATS
Can't believe they were able to do it
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How blessed are we to get to have experience both LHC Bill Snyder and Chris Kiieman lead our football program. Great coaches and great people for a great and special university and people. So thankful for them.
They are an an incredible gift to all of the Wildcat people.
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3rd down, the reach didn’t matter right? Momentum stopped and he went backward a little.
It looked like he was on his knees before he ever reached forward.
In his presser this week, Klein was going on and on about how "football is a game of inches, blah blah"
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The outcome was incredibly satisfying considering we should have won that thing by like 2 TDs. The universe (or god) decided to set things right. Feels great
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Also, in a tiny but important way props to Martinez on the coin flip call :lynchmob:
TNF
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Cats, man.
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Cats, man.
:cheers:
I really feel like these guys are the epitome of a team that is "more than the sum of it's parts". Great group of Cats
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Big 12 champs! Third time! (Josh Buhl's voice).
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There is no way we win this game
This is how I fan
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Never seen such a punchable
SEC champ game got the better end of the deal. Ho boy
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Congrats to all goEMAW wildcats (even the ones who don't deserve this), you deserve this :ksu:
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It’s here, Catfans!
https://twitter.com/kstatesports/status/1599167020620075008?s=46&t=iTVccKscvF-POSoMvUJskg
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It’s here, Catfans!
https://twitter.com/kstatesports/status/1599167020620075008?s=46&t=iTVccKscvF-POSoMvUJskg
:love:
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Luv that!
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That is truly a bad song. Hopefully this propels Kleiman and Klein to get a decent K State cap.
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That is truly a bad song. Hopefully this propels Kleiman and Klein to get a decent K State cap.
Well, sit down, then. bad person.
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Easy big fella. Didn’t know you were a Right Said Fred fan. #1cat
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That was a great season
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That is truly a bad song. Hopefully this propels Kleiman and Klein to get a decent K State cap.
Well, sit down, then. bad person.
:lol:
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Alright not to be Nancy neg but I did not like how they left out the bridge. “And when I fall down…” I mean c’mon guys that’s the part of the song where we face some adversity and grow as people
Also CF3 what is like, your entire deal exactly? RSF is our Adam Sandler. Stand up is our thunderstruck.
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X post prepare your orifice thread:
https://twitter.com/the_felixrex/status/1599157507771236352?s=46&t=LUgHN5dbXl-N8vRhRdx8ow
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I still don’t think it’s hit me yet. Big12 Champs.
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Also if I’m being honest I wasn’t sure how to feel about the game, like I kinda felt like we would win but wasn’t positive until J showed up and then it was like prophecy
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King Felix sipping’ on a Dr Pepps…
https://twitter.com/colecarmody52/status/1599166195470848000?s=46&t=4IKuWxiRMnUvQcLywnjBGQ
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X post prepare your orifice thread:
https://twitter.com/the_felixrex/status/1599157507771236352?s=46&t=LUgHN5dbXl-N8vRhRdx8ow
Glad the signs is over KTs nips or else that photo is extremely NSFW
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Any word on Malik? Knee, Lower leg, ankle?
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Any word on Malik? Knee, Lower leg, ankle?
https://twitter.com/jlkurtz/status/1599161789249245184
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Stud
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Where is this for sale?
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Where is this for sale?
Heaven
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Where is this for sale?
Saw it online at Rallyhouse yesterday
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KK (or someone) POST THE ARTICLE!
https://twitter.com/max_olson/status/1599266971404873728?s=20&t=u7eSmbirjm4WjUJhGEDoFw
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Meh
ARLINGTON, Texas — Kansas State won the dang day.
In Chris Klieman’s first meeting with his players on Dec. 11, 2018, this was how the new head coach challenged them. He knew it worked at North Dakota State. He knew, once they stacked enough days, it would work in Manhattan, Kan.
Four years later, Kansas State stunned TCU and won the Big 12 the only way they know how. They won with culture. Senior leadership. Player ownership. The power of belief. When you have those things, Klieman says, nothing can stop you.
That’s what it all comes back to when you find yourself in the high-pressure position the Wildcats faced on Saturday afternoon. You’re playing the No. 3 team in the country. Their perfect season and everything else is at stake. They’ve valiantly rallied back against you to force overtime. They’ve pushed their way down to your 1-yard line.
What do you do in that moment? How do you win on this most dramatic day? You take to heart what Klieman and your coaches have been telling you for four years: You stay in the fight.
On this day, they finished the fight and paid off all the hard work they’ve devoted to turning Kansas State back into one of the Big 12’s most consistent contenders.
After defeating Kansas last Saturday to clinch a spot in this game, the message inside K-State’s locker room was clear: This team is not going down to Arlington to collect a participation trophy. They were coming to win the damn thing. Getting it done in this 31-28 thriller and clinching a trip to the Sugar Bowl required a true team effort in every way: offense, defense, special teams, starters, backups, everyone.
“Not one second of that game we didn’t believe that we were going to come out with that victory,” senior linebacker Daniel Green said. “That just showed the character on this team, the culture we’ve got, the brotherhood we’ve got to just fall on each other and believe in each other throughout all the adversity that hit us. We still just kept believing.”
They won with Deuce Vaughn, the too-small back from Cedar Park, Texas, that other Big 12 staffs seriously regretted passing on. K-State’s coaches never wavered in telling him he was a tailback in their offense, not just some scatback or return specialist. He did what he always does on Saturday, juking out a TCU safety and putting him on his butt on his way to a crucial 44-yard touchdown and 160-yard performance. There’s not a more beloved player on that team, and he played his best in the biggest game of his career.
They won with Felix Anudike-Uzomah, the edge rusher who was once a skinny 220-pound recruit who intrigued at a summer camp in 2019 with his length and work ethic, then flipped from North Dakota State before signing day. He developed into the Big 12’s Defensive Player of the Year and powered a unit that kept pressuring and punishing TCU quarterback Max Duggan all day.
They won with Will Howard, who couldn’t have been more deserving of this feat. He was thrown into action as a true freshman when Skylar Thompson got hurt and had to start long before he was ready. Howard, Anudike-Uzomah and Vaughn were all true freshmen on that 2020 team that started 4-1 before a humbling finish of five consecutive losses. They always talked about how their class was going to do something special at K-State. How far they’ve come in just three years made this victory even sweeter.
This staff brought in Nebraska grad transfer Adrian Martinez going into 2022, believing he might be the missing piece for a title run. Martinez and Howard became tight friends through their competition. Offensive coordinator Collin Klein vividly remembers the moment of truth before the Oklahoma State game. They stood in the tunnel, a mere 10 minutes before kickoff, still unsure who was going to start. Martinez was a true game-time decision. The unselfish nature of both quarterbacks revealed itself.
“Will Howard is looking at Adrian,” Klein recalled this week, “and going, ‘Hey, you gotta make the best decision for where you’re at. Don’t worry about me. If you want to give it a try, I’ll come in.’”
Howard came in and absolutely thrived. The Wildcats averaged 39.5 points per game when they went with him. Martinez, still injured and unavailable to play, backed him every step of the way. After enduring four years of losing, Martinez walked off the field at AT&T Stadium with a cigar and a grin.
“Both kids have helped us win a Big 12 championship, for sure,” Klieman said, “and both kids rallied around each other when the other one wasn’t playing. That’s a culture. That’s a sign of a group of guys that love each other.”
They won with so many more players you might not have noticed. Like Keenan Garber, the wide receiver who asked Klieman if he could move to defensive back a month ago to help this team. He was the emergency backup, on scout team up until Thursday, and he had to step in and play his best for 21 snaps after Ekow Boye-Doe was injured.
“That’s the sign of a culture,” Klieman said. “That’s the sign of not wanting to let guys like Daniel Green and Eli Huggins down.”
They won with RJ Garcia II, a talented second-year wideout stuck behind senior starters who also had to step up when Malik Knowles got hurt and delivered a 25-yard touchdown catch, the first of his career. He’s been mentored throughout these two years by Vaughn, who says he screamed at the top of his lungs when Garcia scored. These Wildcats had to count on a bunch of freshmen on Saturday to survive, even some guys you’d never expect. Damian Ilalio, a redshirt freshman from Manhattan, only played five snaps in Big 12 play this season. Yet there he was lined up over the center at nose guard on the decisive fourth-and-goal stop.
“Championship teams have resolve,” Klieman said. “They count on each other when it’s crunch time.”
They won, ultimately, with Ty Zentner hitting a 31-yard field goal. Klieman praised him as truly one of their most valuable players on this run to a title. The senior punter took over placekicking duties at the end of October. He’s 9 of 9 on field goals ever since. After setting him up for the game-winner, Howard gave a smiling Zentner a high five as he ran off the field. “Let’s go win a championship,” Howard told him. He couldn’t bear to watch the attempt, but he had no doubt.
“I just keep saying I have no words,” Howard said. “This doesn’t feel real, you know?”
And they won with Klieman and his coaching staff. Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor took a chance on the guy he trusted most, believing that Klieman could handle the pressure of succeeding LHC Bill Snyder, bring everything he learned from leading North Dakota State’s dynasty at the FCS level and figure out how to replicate that success in Manhattan.
On the night of the hire, Taylor got crushed by K-State fans irate that he hired his friend and not Seth LittreLL or Jim Leavitt. They sent him hundreds of angry emails. Once those fans saw one video of Klieman addressing his new team, they changed their tune. As a member of the College Football Playoff selection committee, Taylor wasn’t allowed to attend the Big 12 title game. He was stuck in a hotel 20 miles away, sequestered with the committee. His celebration will have to wait until he gets home.
But everyone else in this program made it count, staying on that field inside AT&T Stadium long after the trophy presentation — as long as they possibly could — to take pictures and share hugs and soak up the spoils of four long years of grinding and believing. Ask any K-State player how they did it, and they’ll point to everyone else in this program. They got the culture right during an eight-win season in 2021 thanks to a locker room that grew close after the challenges of 2020. From the very first day of their winter workouts in January, these Wildcats sincerely believed they were ready to contend.
“Everybody just gets along with everybody,” Anudike-Uzomah said. “We have that culture to trust each other, to trust what we’ve been through. And we’ve been through a lot of stuff.”
When that culture is real, you can build a team capable of responding the right way to anything. The Wildcats lost early to a Tulane team that’s going to the Cotton Bowl. The next week, they went on the road and beat an Oklahoma team ranked No. 6 at the time. They lost at TCU a month later on a night wrecked by injuries. They answered with utter dominance in a 48-0 win over No. 9 Oklahoma State.
Then they lost a nail-biter against Texas that left no more room for error in the Big 12 race. But as Klieman told his team, you can’t trip on something that’s behind you. K-State had to go 3-0 against a tough schedule and got it done, handling its business as well as the unbeatable teams Klieman coached up in Fargo.
“These last four weeks, I think our preparation in the final 48 hours — us finishing practice on Thursday to teeing it up on Saturday — has been as good as anything I’ve ever been involved with,” Klieman said. “Guys owning it, locking into the final details, playing with unbelievable focus and unbelievable resolve for each other. These last four weeks, our guys have been so locked-in and razor-sharp.”
Four years of hard-earned progress. Four weeks of high-stakes football. Four quarters of resilient effort against one of the best teams in college football. Fourth-and-goal in overtime. For Kansas State, that’s how you win the dang day and many more to come.
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Good article. Was word for word what he said in the post game presser.
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That is truly a bad song. Hopefully this propels Kleiman and Klein to get a decent K State cap.
I challenge you to watch the original one from 2003 and not get pumped. I mean, this was such an amazing game! 2022 version fell a little flat IMHO.
https://youtu.be/WskyXvn17J0
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That is truly a bad song. Hopefully this propels Kleiman and Klein to get a decent K State cap.
I challenge you to watch the original one from 2003 and not get pumped. I mean, this was such an amazing game! 2022 version fell a little flat IMHO.
https://youtu.be/WskyXvn17J0
I'm still not tired of it...
Not sure if this one will stay up but it has some good highlights. What every happened to that Panjakes guy who was making vids back in 2012? He had a really nice one of the OSU night game at BSFS
https://youtu.be/yoGYY1UafVk
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What every happened to that Panjakes guy who was making vids back in 2012? He had a really nice one of the OSU night game at BSFS
he was decapitated. he was drunk as a skunk. he was flying down Route 6. he slides under an 18 wheeler. pop. snaps right off.
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What every happened to that Panjakes guy who was making vids back in 2012? He had a really nice one of the OSU night game at BSFS
he was decapitated. he was drunk as a skunk. He was flying down Route 6. he slides under an 18 wheeler. pol. snaps right off.
This for real?
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What every happened to that Panjakes guy who was making vids back in 2012? He had a really nice one of the OSU night game at BSFS
he was decapitated. he was drunk as a skunk. He was flying down Route 6. he slides under an 18 wheeler. pol. snaps right off.
This is horrible, if true.
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Guys, that was a blast!
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Is there any argument against that being the greatest win/game in 'Cats football history?
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guys 'clams was quoting The Office
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Is there any argument against that being the greatest win/game in 'Cats football history?
Yeah. I think I'd still rate the '03 championship game higher because of the historical significance and sheer dominance.
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Is there any argument against that being the greatest win/game in 'Cats football history?
Yeah. I think I'd still rate the '03 championship game higher because of the historical significance and sheer dominance.
I realize this is unknowable...but my gut tells me that if Brooks didn't muff that punt, i think we go down and score and put the game solidly out of reach. Not a 35-7 drumming obviously but definitely in the 3 score differential.
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35-7 by a mile
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03 > 22 easy - everyone knows TCU was a good team having a great season due in large part to timely injuries to thier opponents QBs. 2003 OU was a juggernaut that had hung 50+ against half their schedule and the only close game was @Alabama
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Also they were supposedly the best team of all time. And they started out with a super quick TD and then never saw the end zone again. And we scored in so many different magical ways. Ted Sims pick-6! Sproles breakaway! Oh, and that game had The Leckey Crawl.
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Is there any argument against that being the greatest win/game in 'Cats football history?
Yeah. I think I'd still rate the '03 championship game higher because of the historical significance and sheer dominance.
There is but it would be kind of nit picking and a lively discussion. 1993 Copper Bowl, 2000 KSU/Neb snow game, 2001 KSU/TN Cotton Bowl (01/01/01), 2003 Dr Pepper Championship and now this gem. Slowly building a legacy comparable to anyone else but we will never, never again be considered in any conversation of being among, if not the worst college football programs in the history of the sport. We've come a very long way and should rightfully be proud of what and who we are.
Let's take the next step and kill the elephant!!!
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If we beat Alabama I'll be on record that it's our greatest bowl win and non-con win. Not really even up for debate
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2002 USC probably holds the belt for Best Noncon imo
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35-7
1998 Nubb
2022 Dr P
2000 Nubb
This is the Mount Rushmore of KSU wins. All others are battling for #5.
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TCU is better than Bama and we just beat them.
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35-7
1998 Nubb
2022 Dr P
2000 Nubb
This is the Mount Rushmore of KSU wins. All others are battling for #5.
Nic i think you might have a little sentimentality bias going on there...whatever year that was recently where we beat OU and they still made the playoff and we were their only loss going in to the playoff...i think that is arguably more impressive than 00 Nubb. But in our formative years we had never seen kstate beat nubb until 98 which i think makes those nubb wins feel more important.
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My question though is all things involved. Big 12 title, the actual game itself (OT and we win OMG!). I just can't recall a bigger win for the cats that was also just an OMG what a freaking roller coaster of a game. Nub is the other win I can think of that was a huge win and also an amazing game itself.
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If we beat Alabama I'll be on record that it's our greatest bowl win and non-con win. Not really even up for debate
Agree, even if it's against not their best team, and potentially many guys missing, the symbolism alone is unbeatable. No school over the last 15 years has epitomized the evil empire of CFP at the FBS level
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the win @OU in 2012 was amazing and ended up being the de facto conf champ game. sealing the deal vs texas was also great
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TCU is better than Bama and we just beat them.
Not gEing, I think this is right. It’s just a different animal when Saban has 3 weeks to prepare for you. If we score over 30 then Klein deserves an award.
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TCU is better than Bama and we just beat them.
Not gEing, I think this is right. It’s just a different animal when Saban has 3 weeks to prepare for you. If we score over 30 then Klein deserves an award.
I think if Klein bests Sabans D, he may just offer him the OC job at Bama
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My question though is all things involved. Big 12 title, the actual game itself (OT and we win OMG!). I just can't recall a bigger win for the cats that was also just an OMG what a freaking roller coaster of a game. Nub is the other win I can think of that was a huge win and also an amazing game itself.
aTm 4OT was this way. Believe it was the last time we played them on their way out of the league. We came back from down double digits TWICE. :Wha:
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Most of the 2011 season felt that way. I can’t remember another season with that many close games that KSU just squeaked out. Really not all that different than TCU seemed this season.
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Most of the 2011 season felt that way. I can’t remember another season with that many close games that KSU just squeaked out. Really not all that different than TCU seemed this season.
2011 Baylor is an all-timer.
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Miami too.
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TCU is better than Bama and we just beat them.
Facts. We very well may lose but Alabama, this year, is overrated and I'm not scared of them, in the least. That '12 Oregon team was way better than this Alabama team.
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xpost d scott thread. this is just the strangest prose but I love the zeal:
The son of Waterloo, Iowa, who grew up under a wide blue sky, stands underneath a cloud. The cloud is red, green, white, yellow, and blue, almost like a rainbow, and the cloud rains down upon the man at exactly 3:11 p.m. on Saturday, December 3, 2022. The man stands upon a stage donned in a black ballcap and a purple t-shirt that reads: “BIG 12 CHAMPIONS.” He is gifted a chrome football. And this is where the story begins, with Kansas State head football coach Chris Klieman holding the Big 12 Championship Trophy high above his head under a confetti cloud inside AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. He pauses for a moment, taking it all in, no, attempting to take it all in, because feelings have yet to fully take form, about this journey, about what it all means — and where it is headed.
https://s22009.t.en25.com/e/es?s=22009&e=21106&elqTrackId=efd74c1a1b7a40299e524d6e5aa03bea&elq=c82baa82234c4376970dfa4169d4b202&elqaid=1478&elqat=1 (https://s22009.t.en25.com/e/es?s=22009&e=21106&elqTrackId=efd74c1a1b7a40299e524d6e5aa03bea&elq=c82baa82234c4376970dfa4169d4b202&elqaid=1478&elqat=1)
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Wow. Duggan's near-heroics in the teeth of the vaunted KSU Cats defensive meatgrinder have vaulted him into Heisman contention. That's the kind of hype you get when you have a sort of good showing against our Cat defense:
https://twitter.com/Big12Conference/status/1599916647501811717?s=20&t=zMnwViBT7tF73fN2boOW9Q
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TCU is better than Bama and we just beat them.
If no one on TCU is hurt from our game, I think they win the natty this year.
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This might be the most program changing win. We went from we might be really good to, looking like this is going to be a normal occurrence for us with the way recruiting is going. The other big 12 championships we didn’t capitalize on those victories. 98 nubb, we were already #2 and looking elite. This years win it feels like we just leveled up, as long as we don’t get smoked by Bama.
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This might be the most program changing win. We went from we might be really good to, looking like this is going to be a normal occurrence for us with the way recruiting is going. The other big 12 championships we didn’t capitalize on those victories. 98 nubb, we were already #2 and looking elite. This years win it feels like we just leveled up, as long as we don’t get smoked by Bama.
Totally. Should be top 15 to start the seas next year regardless of the Bama game. Warm up pre seas duds n suds!
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xpost "What if Will Howard is a complete badass" thread:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjeSaTcXkAsupSu?format=jpg&name=small)
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This might be the most program changing win. We went from we might be really good to, looking like this is going to be a normal occurrence for us with the way recruiting is going. The other big 12 championships we didn’t capitalize on those victories. 98 nubb, we were already #2 and looking elite. This years win it feels like we just leveled up, as long as we don’t get smoked by Bama.
Totally. Should be top 15 to start the seas next year regardless of the Bama game. Warm up pre seas duds n suds!
And depending on portal and returning a potential favorite to repeat as pepper champs
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Also, overall, this felt like Kleiman's full team and his win, also further proving that as much as I/we all love Bill we don't need him to be successful (though he obviously deserves the credit for the turnaround) , for that I am very grateful. Having this victory proves it's not some Snyder magic, it's not some disadvantage being in Manhattan (as will Clemson SC or Tuscaloosa AL are destination spots) but that it's a coach and program starting to ascend.
If we follow this up with a win vs Bama, and a 10+ win season next year in the Big 12 Champ game we could very well look to be the flag bearer of the NuNuBig 12, and with Avery coming in, and our ability to actually recruit somewhat well, it could be a fun decade.
After all watching the game last weekend, we were treated pretty well by ESPN/the media at large. I hope we can continue that momentum
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The Dr Pepper is going out on the road so Cat fans across the Sunflower State can bask in its glory:
(https://scontent.fict1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/319835446_1140671196822315_7966508030751084052_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p180x540&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=9hu4WcMnnjMAX_AXq9h&_nc_oc=AQlSO51LFJMVUyrAghQ7iRpzCBPRCdQzxa4pssaessKWopYf23Cdt8nlrK84ugT_M5g&_nc_ht=scontent.fict1-1.fna&oh=00_AfDdCcfODya_EFGyl6SDkVbXbX58sg31_vDDbedEsGZ_Ug&oe=639EC26D)
https://www.kstatesports.com/news/2022/12/13/football-big-12-championship-trophy-statewide-tour-begins-wednesday.aspx (https://www.kstatesports.com/news/2022/12/13/football-big-12-championship-trophy-statewide-tour-begins-wednesday.aspx)
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I have heard of all of those towns!
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I have heard of all of those towns!
Hope they don't force any players (that they don't want in the portal) to travel to Liberal.
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What about all the Lawrence cats?
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I have heard of all of those towns!
Hope they don't force any players (that they don't want in the portal) to travel to Liberal.
Luckily left Coffeyville off. Chanute seems like a good spot to end the SEK tour
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Meade getting snubbed is almost unforgivable
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I have heard of all of those towns!
Hope they don't force any players (that they don't want in the portal) to travel to Liberal.
Luckily left Coffeyville off. Chanute seems like a good spot to end the SEK tour
Agree
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Marysville by far the tiniest of the stops. Must be a lot of country population up that way.
Also, the new trophy is not an improvement from the crystal cups, which were great.
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It looks like an embiggened version of a Lego trophy. Not as in "this was made from 17,000 tiny Legos," but more as in "Honey I Blew Up The Lego Trophy."
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I will be petting this trophy at the sprint center on saturday.
In its a small world I had a hearty LOL at the location it is available at in Colby KS. I played golf there once during covid, no website just a FB page. Being from KC I expected to have to book a tee time in advance so I called them up to see if I needed a reservation or anything for a tee time and they were just like "Nah, no tee times, just show up".
Its a good 9 hole course for a town of 5,000 people. Got paired up with 2 people wearing jeans that worked at the local john deere dealership who knew my extended family.
10/10 would do it again.
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Nice article about Zentner's folks watching his kick in the Pepper that deserves to be preserved here:
https://twitter.com/DScottFritchen/status/1608071424328998912?s=20&t=Pm_LXmATuPHOoD_CkzXYeQ