Acting like Carson is the only QB in the nation that misses throws is pretty myopic. I've seen a bunch of badly throw balls today by a variety of QBs. Last year, Carson missed every damn throw, this year he misses 3 or 4 a game. That's really not bad for a college QB.
Point is that he has to make a higher percentage of those plays for KSU to be successful. he had 5 memorable pass plays today. The miss on the stop and go, the overthrow to the TE, the Pick 6, the nice lob to either AQ or TT, and the nice pass over the middle to pick up the first down early in the game. He was successful on 2 of those plays, that isn't enough and the pick 6 is something he absolutely cannot let happen.
100 yards passing isn't enough and if he had connected on two more of those 5 plays he probably would have had around 50-75 more yards and at least 1 TD.
8-12 for 165 and a TD with no INT's is managing the game and will allow KSU to win games against the big12 also rans more easily, and it will allow KSU to at least have a chance against some of the better teams. That really isn't asking too much, and I'm not saying he can't get it done, but in that aspect he didn't today. The result, a really close win over a really crappy team.
CC throws like he did today and KSU goes against KU,CU,BU,ATM, UCF, UNT 2-4 or maybe 3-3. If he can go have a line similar to what I posted above we have a good chance to win all those games, and maybe pull off an upset somewhere else.