Iowa State would get another opportunity to score before the end of regulation, but again fumbled away their chance when Lanning was sacked at the Iowa State 29 and lost the ball before being ruled down.
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Today’s Iowa State vs Kansas State college football game has a start time schedule of noon eastern time and airs on TV channel FS1, Fox Sports 1.
ABOUT IOWA STATE (3-7, 2-5 Big 12): Running back Mike Warren leads all FBS freshman rushers with 1,070 yards and has scored seven touchdowns, a school record for freshman rushing touchdowns.
The Cyclones suffered their second-straight heartbreaking defeat, letting slip a 35-14 first-half lead and falling 38-35 at Kansas State on a last-second field goal. Yeah… That’s kind of what everybody thought”, said quarterback Joel Lanning, who was 15-of-20 passing for 210 yards and three touchdowns, “but Coach said different and we’re going to listen to Coach and back him up and that’s what he wanted to do. A lot of times we always say, ‘Act like you’ve been there before.’ We didn’t act like we’ve been there before, but we needed that. Warren fumbled with 7:26 to play, and Duke Shelley recovered it at the Cyclones 32.
“The decision was based on being able to run out the clock and never having to punt the football”, Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads said.
Iowa State players didn’t question the decision to run in that situation, but the call did surprise them when it came in.
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Kansas State’s defense forced a three-and-out on the opening drive of the contest for the first time in seven games. Fullback Glenn Gronkowski threw a 4-yard jump pass to Winston Dimel to cap a 9-play, 65-yard drive. “If you were to look down at those 16 goals, there is hardly a one that doesn’t apply to where we sit on this given day”, Snyder said at his weekly press conference. Aided by a 42 yard pass play that put them in good scoring position, Kansas State got the game-tying touchdown on a five-yard run by Charles Jones with:42 seconds remaining.
