No. 4 TCU, No. 12 Kansas St. in title game
FORT WORTH — Kendre Miller ran for two touchdowns as fourthranked TCU completed the first undefeated regular season by a Big 12 team since 2009 with a 62-14 victory over Iowa State on Saturday, getting the Horned Frogs closer to making the four-team College Football Playoff.
Max Duggan threw
TDs to three receivers for the Frogs (12-0, 9-0 Big 12), who still have the Big 12 championship game to play next Saturday against No. 12 Kansas State in coach Sonny Dykes’ first season. But they will go into that as one of only three undefeated teams remaining.
A week after having to score nine points in the final 2 minutes, 7 seconds at Baylor, and getting the game-ending field goal when out of timeouts and the clock running, TCU led 17-0 with scores on each of its three drives against the Big 12’s top defense.
Iowa State (4-8, 1-8) had given up 16.5 points a game, the most being 31 and with only two teams scoring more than 24.
The Frogs led 24-0 at the end of the first quarter on Millard Bradford’s 36-yard interception return for their first defensive touchdown this season.
Josh Newton added another one with his 57yard pick and score after halftime.
NO. 12 KANSAS STATE 47 KANSAS 27
Will Howard threw for 213 yards and two touchdowns, Deuce Vaughn ran for 147 yards and a score, and the Wildcats (9-3, 7-2) punched their ticket to Arlington on Dec. 3 to face No. 4 TCU for the Big 12 title.
Malik Knowles added a pair of touchdown runs, and Philip Brooks and Sammy Wheeler also reached the end zone, as the Wildcats beat their biggest rival for the 14th straight time in a game they needed to win.
Kansas State blew a 28-10 lead and lost 38-28 to the Horned Frogs during the regular season. Now, they’ll face each other again with a College Football Playoff spot likely on the line for TCU.
Jalon Daniels threw for 168 yards while running for a touchdown, and Devin Neal also had two TD runs, as the Jayhawks — bowl-bound for the first time since 2008 — finished the regular season by losing six of their final seven games.
WEST VIRGINIA 24 OKLAHOMA STATE 19
In Stillwater, Okla., Jaylen Anderson ran for 155 yards and two touchdowns, and the Mountaineers (5-7, 3-6 Big 12) snapped a seven-game skid in the series against the Cowboys (7-5, 4-5). Anderson, a redshirt freshman, had rushed for 120 yards all season before the game.
TEXAS TECH 51 OKLAHOMA 48 (OT)
Klein product Trey Wolff kicked the tying field goal in regulation to send the game into overtime for the Red Raiders (7-5), and he kicked the game-winner against the Sooners (6-6). Dillon Gabriel passed for 449 yards and six TDs for Oklahoma, and Tyler Shough passed for 436 yards and two TDs for Tech.