Big 12 Championship Game Thread

[MakeItRain]

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.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

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.

[SkinnyBenny]

35-7 by a mile

[Skipper44]

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

[SkinnyBenny]

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.

[KSURFC8]

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!!!

[Cartierfor3]

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

[Skipper44]

2002 USC probably holds the belt for Best Noncon imo

[nicname]

35-7
1998 Nubb
2022 Dr P
2000 Nubb

This is the Mount Rushmore of KSU wins. All others are battling for #5.

[wetwillie]

TCU is better than Bama and we just beat them.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

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.

[yoga-like_abana]

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.

[cfbandyman]

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

[mocat]

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

[catastrophe]

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.

[wetwillie]

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

[SkinnyBenny]

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. 

[catastrophe]

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.

[nicname]

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.

[catastrophe]

Miami too.

[MakeItRain]

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.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

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

[Sandstone Outcropping]

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

[CNS]

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.

[stunted]

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.