For some reason, OU apparently planned to play a basketball-on-grass game against a team that lined up to play smash-mouth football. K-State won that battle. Until late in the day, OU had no answer for K-State's old-style offense.
K-State won the turnover battle, with a pick coming after a crazy bounce off the hands of the receiver on a WR pass and a fumble recovery off of a pooch kick.
OU twice settled for FGs in or close to the red zone, so those were two wins for K-State.
K-State outscored OU 34-6 in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. In the 3rd quarter, KSU scored 17 points and OU ran 6 plays.
I thought the tone was set when OU got the opening kickoff and--against one of the weaker rushing defenses in the Big 12--used nothing but passes and runs by Jalen Hurts to get down into the red zone, then settled for a FG. That was a win for K-State. We had just told them that we had no confidence in our ability to run the ball and that we were willing to settle for 3 rather than going for it on 4th and 3. And we made another statement of weakness and lack of confidence in passing incomplete on 3rd and 3 at the 27 to set up that situation.
K-State was winning every phase of the game until the last 10 minutes or so. But what OU did with that 10 minutes was too little too late.
So, Cat fans, wherever you are, great win! Congratulations.
