The Kansas State Wildcats kept the momentum alive Saturday night taking down Texas Tech 45-13 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

The Wildcats continue to show good things on both sides of the ball as the defense picked off Texas Tech’s Davis Webb four times and K-States offense had over 500 yards of total offense.

Head Coach Bill Snyder explained after the game that he felt the defense did an exceptional job, except for two drives.

“The two long drives that they had, and got some extended plays. It’s not so much that they scored as much as it was that we just made some nonsensical mistakes, errors that allowed it to happen. Those are the things that we talk about were we just have to make some improvement, and in a couple of areas we did,” said Snyder.

Morgan Burns and Travis Green both had two interceptions a piece in the ball game. The defense held Texas Tech to 347 yards total offense, and the Red Raiders had been averaging about that much passing in their first four games.

Offensively the Wildcats made some big plays including a one handed touchdown catch by Curry Sexton in the end zone with 11:10 to play in the 4th quarter. After the game Sexton said,”I guess it’s better to be lucky than good, I don’t know. I stuck my hand out and it stuck, I don’t know. I didn’t expect to catch it I’ll tell you that much.”

Coach Snyder also commented on the catch saying that it should make the Sports Center top 10 plays of the day,”that better make it.”

Sexton finished the game with 128 yards receiving and two touchdowns, his second game this season with over 100 yards receiving. Tyler Lockett also finished with two receiving touchdowns and had a total of 125 yards receiving on the night.

K-State’s rushing game however wasn’t as consistent as Snyder would have liked. “We didn’t have the consistency there, and we had to throw the ball, that allowed us to keep drives alive. You would like to be able to do it with the running game and create a little bit more balance, but were not quite there yet obviously.”

The Wildcats finished with 245 yards rushing and were led by Jake Waters who ran for 105 yards on 17 carries.

Kansas State will have next week off giving them two weeks to prepare for the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday, October 18th.