Aggies lose in 62-14 debacle

A reeling Kansas State team ground Mike Sherman’s Texas Aggies into the dust of Bill Snyder Stadium Saturday in Manhattan, Kansas. The final score was 62-14.

The Wildcats (4-3, 2-1 Big 12) scored early and scored often, leaving the Aggies (4-2, 0-2 Big 12) bewitched, bewildered, and bedazzled. It was the worst loss of the Sherman era. What is even worst, it signals that the Aggies are in deep trouble for the remainder of the Big 12 season. They have on their plate Colorado at Boulder and a rock crusher of a schedule in the Big 12 South.

Kansas State got on the scoreboard with less than two minutes in the first quarter. They took advantage of a Jaime McCoy fumble at the Aggie 29. Wildcat tailback Daniel Thomas scored from seven yards out to go up 7-0. After an Aggie punt, K-State took seven plays to go up 10-0 on a field goal by Josh Cherry.

Then Thomas scored again on a three-yard run to make it 17-0. The teams traded two punts before K-State got their offense going again with a 45-yard completion from quarterback Grant Gregory to tight end Jeron Mastrud to the Aggie 27. Then Thomas scored on an eight-yard run. The Wildcats went up 24-0. Thomas had four TD’s for the game.

The Cats scored two more times in the second quarter, seemingly at ease. At six minutes remaining in the second quarter Aggie quarterback Jerrod Johnson was intercepted by Hartman. That led to another touchdown. The Wildcats led 38-0 at the half.

Kansas State opened the second half with a 97-yard kickoff return then scored two more unanswered touchdowns in the third quarter to raise game to be a debacle with 9:48 left in the third quarter. The score stood at 59-0 at that point.

The Cats were coming off a 17-66 loss to Texas Tech (5-2, 2-1 Big 12) the previous week. The Aggies will be facing that same Tech team in Lubbock on Saturday.

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Sherman’s focus in the coming week will be to get the players to shake off the loss and prepare for Tech which beat 15 th ranked Nebraska, 31-10 in Lincoln.

The Aggies finally got on the board with a 66-yard and a 23-yard pass and run plays by true freshman wide receiver Uzoma Nwachukwu. Both were late in the third quarter.

The Aggies’s who where fourth ranked in the NCAA (third-ranked in the Big 12) never got going in the first half. Johnson’s streak of passes without a pick off was halted in the first quarter. He would be picked off once more before the end of the debacle.

By Jay Goode
Big 12 Fans Texas A&M Correspondent

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