No. 6 OU leans on Rattler, video review to top K-State 37-31

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — It took Oklahoma backmost Spencer Rattler’s champion show of the season, a large crippled connected the crushed from Kennedy Brooks and immoderate large plays connected defence for the sixth-ranked Sooners to yet bushed Kansas State.

Oh, and a mates important calls that were overturned successful their favour by video reviews.

Rattler finished with 243 yards passing and 2 touchdowns Saturday, Brooks ran for 91 yards and a people successful a large bounce-back game, and the Sooners recovered an onside footwear with conscionable implicit a infinitesimal near to wrapper up a 37-31 triumph that ended a maddening two-game losing streak to the Wildcats.

“You person to find ways to win. We’ve won successful respective antithetic ways aboriginal successful the season,” said Sooners manager Lincoln Riley, whose squad is nevertheless 5-0 and 2-0 successful the Big 12. “I deliberation that bodes good due to the fact that this squad has immoderate grit successful them.”

It was the archetypal roadworthy crippled for the Sooners since announcing they would permission the Big 12 for the SEC, and the perilous footing that near Kansas State and the remainder of the league connected was reflected successful the reception they got.

More than 1 chant from the pupil conception was R-rated.

Skylar Thompson returned from a genu wounded to propulsion for 320 yards and 3 scores for the Wildcats (3-2, 0-2). Deuce Vaughn had 51 yards rushing to spell with 10 catches for 104 yards and a score, and Malik Knowles returned a footwear 93 yards for a touchdown with 1:20 remaining for the last margin.

“We had a accidental to win, had a fig of opportunities,” Kansas State manager Chris Klieman said. “We played for 4 quarters, played with large passion, and I told the guys, ‘We’re a bully team. We conscionable person to judge we’re a bully team.’”

The Sooners doubly had to sweat retired video reviews successful the 2nd half.

The archetypal came erstwhile Kansas State recovered an onside footwear successful the 3rd quarter, and referee Kevin Hassell went to corroborate the shot traveled 10 yards. It did, but the Sooners challenged the play again, contending kicker Ty Zentner had accidentally kicked the shot doubly — which helium besides did. The amerciable touching gave Oklahoma the ball.

“By case-book ruling,” Big 12 officiating coordinator Greg Burks said, “we corrected the evident error.”

The 2nd reappraisal came aft the Wildcats got the shot backmost trailing 27-17 successful the fourth. Landry Weber was ruled to person caught a walk converting 4th down, but the shot had intelligibly deed the crushed and different play was overturned.

Hall scored his 2nd TD connected a shovel walk a fewer minutes aboriginal to assistance Oklahoma enactment distant the game.

“We were prepared for thing and everything,” Hall said, “and we went retired determination and did our thing.”

Thompson had not played since the 2nd crippled of the season, erstwhile helium wounded his genu portion trying to artifact for Vaughn against Southern Illinois. And portion Klieman called it “unlikely” that his prima would play against the Sooners, it became wide during warmups that it had go rather certain.

With their sixth-year elder nether center, the Wildcats moved the shot efficiently for the archetypal clip successful weeks. And aft backup moving backmost Jacardia Wright coughed up the shot to extremity their archetypal drive, they reached the extremity portion a fewer minutes aboriginal to instrumentality a 7-3 pb — their lone 1 of the game.

The Sooners answered with a 75-yard thrust of their ain that Hall ended with a abbreviated TD run, and the teams swapped tract goals heading into halftime, leaving Oklahoma with a 13-10 pb — and each team’s punter a small spot bored.

In fact, cipher punted until Oklahoma forced 1 midway done the 3rd quarter.

By that point, Rattler had already led the Sooners 75 yards for different touchdown; they ne'er adjacent faced 3rd down connected the drive. And erstwhile the Wildcats did unit 3rd down connected the adjacent series, Rattler simply deed Drake Stoops for 20 yards for a archetypal down, past connected with Michael Woods connected the adjacent play for a 27-10 lead.

Then came the video reviews and a nervy last fewer minutes earlier the Sooners could last exhale.

“If we proceed to play with that benignant of passionateness and effort, and get amended during the disconnected week — and get healed up a spot — we person a bully communicative we tin write,” Klieman said.

Oklahoma squeaked done different adjacent crippled contempt allowing 3 fourth-down conversions, committing 10 penalties for 85 yards and doubly putting the shot connected the ground; the Sooners recovered some fumbles.

Kansas State got a large assistance from Thompson connected offense, but the defence struggled again to get disconnected the field. Oklahoma lone faced 7 3rd downs, converting four, and was 6 for 6 scoring successful the reddish zone.

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