Wildcats keep on roaring
Kansas State clubs Oklahoma State for 14th straight win
Posted: Saturday October 17, 1998 08:59 PM
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High steppin': Murphy (left) scored two touchdowns for the Wildcats, a 2-yard run and a 46-yard reception AP |
MANHATTAN, Kansas (AP) -- Even a demanding perfectionist like Bill
Snyder will accept 8-of-23 passing when the completions go for 287
yards and three touchdowns.
"I'll live with it," the Kansas State coach said Saturday
after Michael Bishop passed and ran the fourth-ranked Wildcats past
Oklahoma State 52-20.
"I'd like for him to throw 60 percent and still average about
30 yards a catch. But I have no choices," Snyder said.
Bishop also had a team-high 89 yards rushing, including two
touchdown runs, and became Kansas State's all-time rushing leader
as a quarterback. Also, the Wildcats broke an 88-year-old school
record with their 14th straight victory.
In addition to three touchdown passes, including two to Aaron
Lockett, Bishop threw a 60-yard strike in the second half to set up
Frank Murphy's 2-yard touchdown.
"Bishop is a heck of a player," said Oklahoma State coach Bob
Simmons. "He's probably the best in the country."
Bishop fueled a fourth-quarter drive with a 51-yard run as the
Wildcats (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) erased the school record for consecutive
wins established in 1909-10. He has 820 career yards rushing.
Bishop did not appear in Kansas State's postgame news
conference.
"We know we've got to protect for a while because Michael can
flush around and make things happen. He did today," said guard
Jeremy Martin. "He made a lot of things happen today."
Oklahoma State (2-4, 1-3) playing away from home for the fifth
time in six games, lost its seventh in a row to Kansas State, which
has beaten 44 straight unranked opponents at home.
"They came up with the big plays and they beat us on our basic
ones," said Oklahoma State defensive back Ricky Thompson.
Distance specialist: Lockett (right) caught touchdown passes of 59 and 81 yards AP | |
Bishop got the scoring started with a 12-yard run on Kansas
State's first possession. The Wildcats' next three touchdowns all
came on third-down passes and covered 59 and 81 yards to Lockett
and 46 yards to Murphy, the much-ballyhooed junior college transfer
who was suspended the first four games for accepting money from
boosters.
Oklahoma State got field goals of 32 and 40 yards from Tim
Sydnes in the first half and Tony Lindsay hit Terrance Richardson
with a 14-yard scoring pass with 25 seconds left in the half to
make it 28-13.
Backup quarterback Chris Chaloupka connected with Marceilus
Rivers for a 6-yard TD pass with 12:31 left in the fourth period
that narrowed the score to 38-20.
But Bishop, 41-1 as a starting quarterback in two years at Blinn
(Texas) Community College and 1 1/2 at Kansas State, fueled a
seven-play, 73-yard march a few minutes later with a twisting,
tackle-breaking 51-yard run to the 14.
After he hit Lockett for 11 yards on third and 10, Bishop scored
on a 3-yard run.
A moment later, Mark Simoneau recovered a Chaloupka fumble, and
Eric Hickson went 22 yards for the touchdown on the very next play
to put the Wildcats on top 52-20 with 9:06 left.
In the first period, Lockett took Bishop's pass and slipped
between two defenders to go 59 yards for Kansas State's second TD.
With 12:13 left in the half, he beat Thompson, who made a
one-handed lunge for an interception and then lay on the ground and
watched Lockett speed away on an 81-yard scoring play.
"We knew we would have man-to-man coverage and they would blitz
a lot, so if we could beat our man we knew we would have pretty
much open field," said Lockett, who totaled 167 yards on five
catches.
Murphy took a pass over his shoulder with 6:21 left in the half
and juked Trent Alexander at the 10.
Jarrod Cooper became the ninth Wildcat with an interception this
season when he picked off Lindsay midway through the third period
to set up Martin Gramatica's 43-yard field goal.
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