2: #1/2 Kansas State Wildcats 40, #11 Nebraska Cornhuskers 30 (November 14, 1998; Manhattan, KS)

So again, I kind of slacked off on the list, but it will be finished today since the season opener is tomorrow night. November 14, 1998, according to the T-shirts printed up, was deemed "Judgement Day for the Children of the Corn". Nebraska had defeated Kansas State 29 consecutive times coming into 1998's contest. However, the Cornhuskers had never faced a Kansas State team that was ranked #1 in the country. Michael Bishop led the Kansas State attack and remembered the 56-26 beating that Kansas State took in Lincoln in '97. It was Bishop's first loss as a college QB and it's said that he had "Never Twice" written on his wristband for the '98 game. He took it upon himself that it wouldn't happen twice to him.


It was a huge game for Kansas State, ESPN's College Gameday hosted their Saturday show at KSU Stadium, which shows just how big it was. Nebraska got out to an early lead of 17-7 after Bishop fumbled the ball away three times in the first half. Bishop made up for that by scoring 2 TD's of his own in the first, and sending the Wildcats to the locker room at the half down by just 3 points, 17-14.

The third quarter saw the Wildcats jump out to a 24-17 lead, only to have Ralph Brown return a fumble 74 yards for a touchdown to tie the game at 24 at the end of the third.

Kansas State's time to shine was in the fourth. The Wildcats needed a big play and that's just what they got. Trailing 30-27 late in the game, Michael Bishop was again prepared to take the game on his shoulders, with the help of his favorite target Darnell McDonald. On 2nd and 10, Bishop took a low shotgun snap and scooped it up, scrambled to his right under pressure and found McDonald all by himself in the back of the end zone. With 5:25 remaining in the game, it proved to be the last score the Wildcats would need as the extra point put them up 34-30. For good measure, Jeff Kelly returned a fumble 23 yards for a touchdown to give KSU the 40-30 lead, and the fans rushed the field as they thought the clock had expired. It had not, and Kansas State came out for a two-point conversion as Bishop took a knee and the fans began to rush the field again. But the officials said hold on, the PAT is an untimed play, so after the Wildcats had kicked off, the clock finally ran out and the fans rushed toward the goalpost in the north end zone and 30 years of hell froze over, as the Collegian said following the game. Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder summed up the win. "I'm happy, I can assure you of that. I feel very good about this win. I'm humbled by it, in all honesty, because of how long it took. I'm so happy for those people tearing the goalpost down out there. It means so much to them, for those people who stuck through it, through thick and thin."

Final Score: 40-30.

3: Kansas State Wildcats 38, #18 Nebraska Cornhuskers 9 (November 15, 2003; Lincoln, NE)

Okay, so this is hardly tomorrow since the #4 game on my countdown. I wish I had a real excuse for not getting this posted sooner, but the truth is, I'm just slacking. The #3 game on my countdown of Top 10 victories in my K-State watching life is the 2003 domination of the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. Cornhusker fans were so high on their team that they didn't think K-State would ever win in Lincoln again. The Wildcats got the job done and did it in convincing fassion.

K-State had won four straight games after losing three in a row earlier in the season, but they hadn't played an opponent like the Huskers. The hardest game in the span was their home contest against Colorado. Going into the game their were a lot of subjects being talked about, but the main one was people comparing the two QB's from each team, Ell Roberson for K-State and Jammal Lord for Nebraska. This prompted Roberson to say: "I don't see no similarities between me and that guy. He's a crazy cat. I don't want to be compared to him in no way, form or fashion." Things got heated at the coin toss as Roberson was jawing from the begininng and came out a little too hyped up, as he struggled in the first half, and the game was knotted at 7 going into the halftime break. Everybody knows my feelings on the 7 for Nebraska. It never should have counted. In a picture in the Omaha World Herlad, you can clearly see that Jammal Lord has the ball in hand while his knee is on the ground and he was still credited with a touchdown pass. K-State's touchdown was on a hard fought run by Darren Sproles from 22 yards out.

The flood gates opened for K-State in the second half. Roberson scored on an 11-yard TD run in the 3rd, and Joe Rheem made a field goal to give K-State a 17-7 lead. The fourth quarter proved to be the big one for KSU. They outscored the Huskers 21-2 in the final stanza as Roberson found James Terry for two long TD passes, and Ayo Saba capped things off with a 6-yard TD run.

Roberson finished the game 15-28 passing with 2 TD's and 313 yards. He also ran the ball 22 times for 90 yards and a TD. James Terry had a great game receiving with his two touchdowns, with 175 yards on just 6 catches. Darren Sproles led KSU on the ground with 140 yards on 25 carries.

As far as the Lord-Roberson comparison leading up to the game. This was just another game to prove that there was no comparison. Lord was held to just 98 yards passing and completed just 8 of his 26 pass attempts and got picked off twice as well. He did have a decent ground game with 88 yards on 21 carries, but it was far from enough. Roberson's thought's after the game: “It was personal for me, seeing as we beat them last year and said we couldn't do it again. I just wanted to prove today, that with the guys behind me that we could.” Oh they could. Final Score: 38-9.