Cyclones Drop Road Game to Kansas State, 56-10

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Now, this is the kind of game fans have come to expect from Kansas State - and from Iowa State as well.

Josh Scobey rushed for 149 yards and four touchdowns as the 19th-ranked Wildcats beat the rebuilding Cyclones 56-10 Saturday, possibly setting up a showdown next week with No. 5 Nebraska for the Big 12 North title.

Kansas State, which had lost two of its last three and tumbled 17 spots in The Associated Press poll, scored on five of its first seven possessions against the Cyclones (6-3, 3-3), who have already clinched their first winning season since 1989.

By beating underdog Kansas later Saturday, Nebraska would come into Manhattan with a 5-1 Big 12 mark, one game better than Kansas State (4-2). But a victory by Kansas State would give the Wildcats the tiebreaker with one game left in the regular season.

In the Big 12 championship game in Kansas City on Dec. 2, the Big 12 North champion would possibly meet No. 1 Oklahoma, the only team so far this year to beat both Nebraska and Kansas State.

Scobey, a junior college transfer, scored on runs of 2, 1 and 4 yards in the first quarter. Midway through the third period, he picked up 29 yards up the middle and then went 11 yards for another TD, putting Kansas State on top 49-3.

Iowa State came in averaging 426.6 yards, third in the Big 12 and 19th nationally. But the quicker Kansas State defense held the Cyclones to just 291 yards.

The Wildcats, nearly unstoppable in the first half, piled up 583 yards while handing the Cyclones their most lopsided loss since a 77-14 flailing Nebraska in 1997.

Iowa State failed on a fake punt with about two minutes left in the opening quarter and Kansas State took over at the 50. Scobey, on four straight carries, went 11, 21, 14 and 4 yards for the score.

Chris Claybon scored on an 8-yard run for Kansas State early in the second quarter. Then Quincy Morgan took a pass over the middle from Jonathan Beasley and went 29 yards for the Wildcats' fifth TD.

A few minutes later, Beasley's 1-yard touchdown run made it 42-3 and ran his team record for rushing touchdowns in a season to 16.

The Cyclones got a 30-yard field goal from Carl Gomez in the first quarter and a 1-yard TD run from Sage Rosenfels in the fourth.

With 5:17 to go, El Roberson hit Brandon Clark with a 23-yard scoring pass for Kansas State's final touchdown.

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