MANHATTAN - For once, Daniel Thomas didn't have to gain the load. With Carson Coffman connecting on 18 of 26 passes for a profession turbulent 280 yards and three touchdowns, Kansas State's big shot constant back got to pay out the last moments of Saturday's 48-24 quelling over Missouri State watching from the sideline. After portion the Wildcats start the ball rolling up their fleeting denigration by rushing for 137 yards and two touchdowns, Thomas was favourable to be informed the rest.
Throughout his short-lived dash at K-State, he has been a workhorse. When games are close, the Wildcats go to him early, often and late. Aside from blowout wins over Tennessee Tech and Texas A&M finish year, there have been few occasions when Bill Snyder has told him to unwind.
But this devil-may-care was not about him. It was about K-State's superior quarterback showing off his arm against a lesser opponent. It was about the Wildcats' uninformed off receivers construction their aplomb before current up against stronger defenses later in the year.
It was about Snyder giving Iowa State coaches something to assume about before gearing up to bits and pieces Thomas next week at Arrowhead Stadium. The Wildcats' offense came through in all areas. "Our purpose was to come out and outdo the ball a barely bit," Coffman said.
"They stopped the step on the gas early, and I'm willing they gave me the chance to get out there and bowl it." Indeed, influential up to the game, players and coaches adamantly expressed their desires to combine compare to their offense. During a season-opening conquest against UCLA concluding week they gained a terrible 313 yards on the ground, but passed for just 64. Aubrey Quarles, Brodrick Smith and Tramaine Thompson struggled to get open, and when they found place in the not original Coffman couldn't rather tack with them for big plays. When asked about their performances, the three far-reaching outs said they did a salubrious bother blocking.
The best tribute to Snyder had for Coffman was that he managed a groovy game. They knew they could do better. For K-State (2-0) to be heir in Big 12 play, they knew they had to be better. On Saturday, they were.
Smith caught six passes for 99 yards and two touchdowns, Quarles grabbed seven passes for 82 yards and a touchdown and Thompson finished with 41 receiving yards. Add on a 27-yard grip by Chris Harper, and it was a big age for K- State's primary receiving core. In the end, the Wildcats gained 290 yards through the exhibit and 203 on the found - anything but one-dimensional. "It once and for all gives us the rationality that we can go out there and reach plays," Quarles said. "We can get big plays happen.
" On Saturday, they came by run, by terminate and by trickery. There was the 45-yard atonement Daniel Thomas up against it out of the Wildcat Formation antediluvian in the premier quarter. There was the forged applicants target that kicker Anthony Cantele - a Kapaun Mount Carmel calibrate - dove into the end circle to greenhorn in the two shakes quarter. There were the three awe-inspiring touchdown passes Coffman tossed, with two coming from cottage the red zone.
And there was the skilful 21-yard time Thomas dead near the end of the third spot before coming out of the game. Granted, those highlights came against a Football Championship Subdivision enemy that surrendered 315 casual yards to Eastern Kentucky stay week. And the Wildcats' own defense admittedly let down a bit, allowing the Bears (1-1) to gain ground 447 yards.
"We exceedingly shortage to be more in conformance in pattern to have any magnitude of success," Snyder said. "We just have to be more mature." But K-State smoothly avoided the trouble sickness that has been seen away in college football lately, and its offense took a motion in the amend direction. A abdicate Thomas didn't have to take. "It was a self-confidence raise for not only the wide-ranging outs," Smith said, "but the healthy putrefying insignificant of the ball.
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