PFB Live: Pokes Seek Payback Against Kansas State

End of Game: Oklahoma State 12 — Kansas State 31

4Q: 0:38: Oklahoma State 12 — Kansas State 31: Taylor Cornelius went 2 for 8 on the Cowboys’ final drive and then three his second INT of the day in a walk-off.

4Q: 2:35: Oklahoma State 12 — Kansas State 31: Alex Barnes scores his fourth rushing TD to push the Cowboys out of reach.

4Q: 8:07: Oklahoma State 12 — Kansas State 24: Cornelius is off the mark again, and the offense stalls out. Pokes punt it back to K-State with eight minutes left and down two scores. The Wildcats’ last three drives clocked at: 4:59, 3:34 and 4:42.

4Q: 9:33: Oklahoma State 12 — Kansas State 24: Cornelius under-throws Jelani Woods on a still-catchable ball, then over-throws Tylan Wallace who is able to haul it in for the first down.

4Q: 9:41: Oklahoma State 12 — Kansas State 24: The Wildcats finish the drive with another rushing TD for Alex Barnes. He’s now had three ground scores in consecutive games.

4Q: 11:55: Oklahoma State 12 — Kansas State 17: The Wildcats are marching down the field led by Alex Barnes to tune of 5-plus yards per carry. Chains are moving and clock is running. Pokes really need a stop on this drive.

4Q: 14:23: Oklahoma State 12 — Kansas State 17: Cornelius keeps it again and scampers in to the end zone. The 2-point conversion attempt comes up empty.

End of 3rd Quarter: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 17

3Q: 0:10: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 17: Cornelius makes a play with his feet and pushes the Cowboys into scoring position to start the fourth.

3Q: 1:39: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 17: The Cowboys once again find themselves in third and long. Hand-off to Hill makes it manageable. A quick pass to Stoner keeps the Cowboys alive.

3Q: 2:41: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 17: Things just got ugly. The Cowboys have possessed the ball for just over half the time the Wildcats have and now find themselves down two scores with less than 18 minutes to play.

3Q: 3:25: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 10: Skylar Thompson tries to go for the Cowboys’ throat by going airborne for the pylon.

3Q: 3:41: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 10: Skylar Thompson finds his running back on the sideline for a one-handed SportsCenter Top 10 play.

3Q: 5:45: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 10: Rodarius Williams makes a nice open-field tackle to save the first down and more.

3Q: 6:15: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 10: Cornelius is sacked for an 11-yard loss and the Pokes are in a bit of trouble. Zach Sinor slices the hell out of that punt give the Wildcats a short field.

Again, penalties and special teams are killing OSU.

3Q: 7:11: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 10: The Cowboys make some hay with a 19-yard pass to Tyron Johnson and a 22-yard keeper by Cornelius, but find themselves in third and a mile after another costly penalty.

3Q: 8:44: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 10: K-State’s latest drive spans 70 yards in five minutes and ends in the end zone after some inept defense by the Pokes. With nine guys in the box, Alex Barnes simply bounces off of a coupe and walks into the end zone.

Let’s see if the Cowboys can snap out of it now behind on the road.

3Q: 13:43: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 3: Skylar Thompson once again saves a drive with his feet and the Cowboys have no answer for that.

3Q: 14:04: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 3: The Cowboys give it to Justice Hill for just his fifth and sixth carries of the game. Nothing doing and the third-down pass to Tyron Johnson is nearly picked off. Cowboys start the second half with a three-and-out.

Halftime: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 3

Halftime thoughts: 

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— Southwell (@JustinSouthwell) October 13, 2018

First half action from Manhattan as #OKState leads Kansas State 6-3. pic.twitter.com/HqQJWV2P9n

— Jackson Lavarnway (@TheLavarnway) October 13, 2018

2Q: 0:00: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 3: Jarrick Bernard sends everyone to the locker room with this drive-stealing sack. With no remaining timeouts, the Wildcats have to just watch the clock run out without enough time to set up for a field goal.

2Q: 0:34: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 3: Thompson takes a shot into the end zone to follow K-State’s longest pass play of the game (18 yards), but overthrows his receiver. Another dropped pass to Dalvin Warmack would have likely gone for 7.

2Q: 2:43: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 3: Kansas State methodically chewing up yards and gets the assist from an offsides penalty by Jordan Brailford.

2Q: 5:31: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 3: The Pokes see your three-and-out, K-State. And raises for their own. Two missed connections between Cornelius and Landon Wolf and a check-down to J.D. King only picks up 5.

OSU is banging their head against a wall trying to make TC into a big play passer. It is working as well as you'd think. Another poor offensive game plan.

— Michael Doutey (@mike_doutey) October 13, 2018

Not ideal.

2Q: 6:18: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 3: The Cowboys force their second straight three-and-out.

2Q: 7:23: Oklahoma State 6 — Kansas State 3: After the big play. Cornelius keeps it and goes out of bounds at the 1-yard line. J.D. King comes up empty and a flip play is blown up for a loss on third down.

Ammendola chips one in from 22 yards and we are officially in Big Ten football mode.

2Q: 8:55: Oklahoma State 3 — Kansas State 3: Cornelius goes to Wallace again, this time in double coverage and Tylan comes down with one hell of a catch.

2Q: 9:55: Oklahoma State 3 — Kansas State 3: The K-State drive stalls out for its second three-and-out of the day. Pokes will get the ball back and will try to aim for the end zone instead of their toes again.

2Q: 10:24: Oklahoma State 3 — Kansas State 3: Cornelius looks deep to Tylan Wallace in the end zone but the contested pass is intercepted by Duke Shelley.

2Q: 12:33 Oklahoma State 3 — Kansas State 3: Cornelius picks up the chunk play keeping the rock and taking it 26 yards.

2Q: 14:55: Oklahoma State 3 — Kansas State 3: Jordan Brailford kept the Wildcats out of the end zone with this huge play on third down. Ensuing kick is good. we’re knotted up at 3-3.

When the cattle get out and the farmer down the road has to tell you where they went. pic.twitter.com/k1ROVpmJ0s

— Pistols Firing (@pistolsguys) October 13, 2018

End of the 1st Quarter: Oklahoma State 3 — Kansas State 0

A peek behind the curtain:
Cam: "OSU has 69 total yards."
Me and @PFBoone: "Nice."
Cam: "I'm going to tweet this." https://t.co/AUVy2ANZc9

— Nathan Ruiz (@NathanSRuiz) October 13, 2018

1Q: 0:30: Oklahoma State 3 — Kansas State 0: K-State goes for it on fourth and 4, and Skylar Thomson takes off and get the first down. OSU’s defense needs to account for Thompson’s wheels.

1Q: 1:28: Oklahoma State 3 — Kansas State 0: Alex Barnes getting mostly what he wants on the ground. Kansas State has been moving the ball well on this drive. Let’s see if OSU can pin its ears back on third and long.

1Q: 5:04: Oklahoma State 3 — Kansas State 0: Isaiah Zuber could have taken that kickoff to the house but stepped out of bounds. No thanks to the Cowboys’ coverage team.

Both penalties and special teams rearing their ugly orange heads early.

Maybe it’s just me, but maybe Mike Gundy should hire a special teams coach. I don’t think the GA’s and analysts are getting it done. #okstate

— Carson Cunningham (@KOCOCarson) October 13, 2018

1Q: 5:10: Oklahoma State 3 — Kansas State 0: Matt Ammendola nails a 48-yard field goal to put the Pokes on the board.

1Q: 5:15: Oklahoma State 0 — Kansas State 0: What looked like a Landon Wolf touchdown was called back for pass interference by Tylan Wallace, then Teven Jenkins is flagged for a false start.

Third and 24! Penalties continue to be a huge problem for OSU.

Here is Tylan Wallace running in a straight line down the field and getting a 15-yard penalty as a result. pic.twitter.com/e35a7ciY8B

— Pistols Firing (@pistolsguys) October 13, 2018

The worst offensive PI call in the history of football just occurred. We have seen history.

— Clint Chelf (@Cchelf10) October 13, 2018

1Q: 7:00: Oklahoma State 0 — Kansas State 0: Cowboys spreading it around this drive with carries by both Chuba and J.D. King and Justice in the passing game. King picks a big chunk of yardage after not touching the ball against Iowa State.

1Q: 11:20: Oklahoma State 0 — Kansas State 0: The Pokes get off of the field after three plays as Trey Carter stands up Alex Barnes.

Please no!

Unsuccessful opening drive for K-State. Time to bring in a freshman QB.

— Marshall Scott (@Marshall_Once) October 13, 2018

1Q: 11:50: Oklahoma State 0 — Kansas State 0: The Cowboys’ first drive stalls out and the Zach Sinor’s punt is clipped in the air but takes a friendly orange roll.

1Q: 13:30: Oklahoma State 0 — Kansas State 0: The Wildcats chew up plenty of yards but are stymied in the red zone. Andrew Hicks, a freshman without a field goal attempt in his career, misses a 51-yard field goal.

#OKState wins the coin toss and defers. Kansas State will take the ball to start the game, defending the south end zone.

— Cowboy Football (@CowboyFB) October 13, 2018

If there’s any reason to momentarily distance ourselves from the 1*-2 start to conference play that Oklahoma State has produced thus far, vengeance is as good as any.

Last November, with as talented a squad as we had seen in Stillwater in some time, the Cowboys came ? close to (or a couple of tackles away from) upending the Sooners in BPS and squashing the accelerator pedal down I-35 toward the Big 12 title game.

Things didn’t go the Pokes’ way but the feeling among the orange constituency was somewhat jovial after a rebound in Ames. That is until K-State came to town.

The 5-5 Wildcats threatened to completely eliminate the Cowboys from the Big 12 trophy discussion, and dampen the morale in Payne County, as a double-digit underdog. And the Cowboys spuriously obliged.

Now the Pokes, enduring their own rough start to this season, look to play spoiler to the Wildcats’ Homecoming. Will they be successful? Will some backup Kansas State equipment manager combine for 350 yards and four TDs? I can’t/can wait to find out.

So settle in, pull up a keyboard and let’s get through this together.