It was Beasley's third TD run and the fifth lead change of another entertaining Holiday Bowl. But I'm glad we ate up some clock, because we spent a lot of time fumbling the ball out here and getting penalties and putting ourselves in harm's way on more than one occasion. We needed one drive somewhere along the line. He audibled on the winning play, an option keeper to the right. The drive was simply long for the Huskies.
People are just tired, dead tired out there.
It was just hard, when you're out there for that long. The winning drive began after Lamar Chapman stepped in front of receiver Gerald Harris and intercepted Marques Tuiasosopo's pass at the goal line, returning it eight yards with 52 seconds left in the third quarter. I threw a bad ball. Kansas State finished 11-1, and seemed to enjoy itself in this postseason, unlike last year when it lost a shot at reaching the national championship game and then had a lackluster effort in an Alamo Bowl loss to Purdue. Kansas State sacked Tuiasosopo four times, all in the first half.