Tennant kicks go-ahead 51-yarder, No. 16 K-State stops Kansas on 4th down to preserve 29-27 win

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Avery Johnson threw 2 touchdown passes and ran for a score, Chris Tennant kicked a 51-yard go-ahead section extremity pinch 1:42 to spell and No. 16 Kansas State stopped Kansas connected 4th down to sphere a 29-27 triumph Saturday night.

D.J. Giddens added 102 yards rushing for nan Wildcats (7-1, 4-1 Big 12), who kept live their chances of playing for a convention title and successful nan College Football Playoff by beating their biggest rival for nan 16th consecutive time.

Kansas (2-6, 1-4) sewage nan shot backmost aft Tennant's section extremity and picked up a speedy first down. But Jalon Daniels bookended a short completion pinch a mates of incomplete passes, and he was tracked down connected 4th down pinch little than a infinitesimal to go, giving nan Wildcats nan shot backmost and nan chance to tally retired nan clock.

Daniels threw for 209 yards and accounted for 2 touchdowns and an interception. Devin Neal ran for 66 yards and a score.

Kansas opened nan crippled pinch a 75-yard touchdown drive, past looked arsenic if it would return power a fewer minutes later, erstwhile Daniels spotted Quentin Skinner moving unfastened down nan mediate of nan field. But nan elder wide receiver dropped nan would-be 49-yard touchdown throw, and nan Jayhawks yet were forced to punt.

The Wildcats seized connected nan opening, past took advantage of different Kansas blunder.

After Johnson led a 95-yard thrust to knot nan game, Kansas freshman Jameel Croft Jr. inexplicably caught nan ensuing kickoff astatine nan 1-yard statement and stepped retired of bounds. Neal was stuffed for a information connected nan very adjacent play, and Kansas State followed pinch a 59-yard thrust and its 2nd touchdown successful a matter of minutes.

Daniels calmed nan Jayhawks, though, and his touchdown propulsion to Luke Grimm sewage them wrong 16-14 astatine nan break.

The teams swapped touchdowns to statesman nan 2nd half, past traded punts, earlier nan Jayhawks regained nan lead connected Daniels' touchdown tally precocious successful nan 3rd 4th — nan 2nd twelvemonth successful a statement they person led Kansas State successful nan 2nd half.

The result would beryllium nan same, too.

The Jayhawks still led 27-26 pinch 3:44 to spell erstwhile Daniels, trying to scramble adjacent midfield, went airborne and had nan shot popular loose. Brendan Mott was location to retrieve it for nan Wildcats, giving Johnson and Co. 1 past chance pinch nan ball.

They did conscionable capable to group up Tennant's go-ahead section extremity wrong nan last 2 minutes.

Kansas dominated nan crippled for agelong stretches but was forced to flooded itself. Daniels had 2 turnovers, thing that was a problem for him earlier successful nan season, and nan Jayhawks made excessively galore typical teams blunders.

Kansas State had 479 yards of full discourtesy but struggled connected 3rd down. It besides had a chance to people a go-ahead TD early successful nan 4th quarter, but Johnson's walk sailed precocious and nan Wildcats kicked a chip-shot section extremity that astir costs them.

Kansa: Plays No. 10 Iowa State connected Nov. 9 astatine Arrowhead Stadium.

Kansas State: At Houston adjacent Saturday.

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