Kansas State Team Notes
??????????Today's second rushing touchdown by Ell Robersonset a school record for the most touchdowns in a season. K-State has 47 aftertoday's performance.
??????????This afternoon's 49 points by K-State was the most scoredby the Wildcats against Nebraska in the series history.
??????????K-State held Nebraska to 97 rushing yards, over 192 yardsbelow the Cornhusker's average of 289.5.
??????????Kansas State has won 62 of its last 64 games when scoringfirst. The Wildcats are 92-9 under Bill Snyder when scoring first.
??????????With six rushing touchdown this afternoon, Kansas Statehas scored at least one rushing touchdown in each of the last 26 regular-seasongames, including the Big 12 Championship.
??????????With one Nebraska turnover today, K-State has forced aturnover in each of the last 16 games, including the 2001 Insight.com Bowl.
??????????K-State continued its 11-game streak of rushing for moreyards than its opponent tonight by tallying a season-high 415 yards to theCornhuskers' 97 rushing yards. K-State's rushing total today was the fifth mostis school history.
??????????K-State has scored 81 times this season on 69 touchdowns,10 field goals, a defensive extra-point and a safety. A total of 13 scores havecome without a scoring drives (on defense or special teams); 22 have come ondrives of less than 1:00; 26 have come on drives of 1:05 or less; 34 have comeon drives of 2:00 or less; 6 have come on 1-play drives; and 29 have come ondrives of four players or less.
??????????Today's attendance of 52,221 is the fourth largest inKansas State history.
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Kansas State IndividualNotes
??????????With 228 rushing yards today, Ell Roberson recordedhis first 200-yard rushing game of this career, became the first quarterbackwith 200 rushing yards in a contest and only the sixth player all-time to have200 yards in a game. Today's total stands second all-time on the single-gamerushing list. The performance was also his second 100-yard rushing game of theseason and the sixth of his career.??????????Roberson also broke the single-season record for rushingyards by a quarterback with 898 yards. Michael Bishop held the previous recordof 748 in 1998.??????????Roberson had 29 rushing attempts today, the most by a Wildcatthis season and a career high. He also passed Steve Grogan (1972-74, 339) on thecareer list with 344.??????????EllRoberson pushed up to eighth on thecareer-rushing list today with 228 yards rushing. He currently has 1,709 yardsand trails CorneliusDavis (1966-68, 1,873) in eighth.
??????????With three rushing touchdownstoday, Ell Roberson is tied with J.J. Smith (1991-94) on the careerrushing touchdown list. The quarterback has 22 scores.??????????Roberson tallied 320 yards in total offense today leavinghim 250 yards short of eighth place on the career total offense list. He has3,804 yards following this afternoon's game.??????????EllRoberson reeled off a 91-yard touchdownrun that ranks as the longest this season, the longest in KSU Stadium and thesecond longest in school history. GeraldHackney holds the school record with a96-yard touchdown rush in 1948.
??????????DarrenSproles moved into second on the seasonrushing yards chart today with 155 yards on 21 carries. The 155 yards also puthim into sole possession of first place on the season 100-yard rushing gameslist with eight. In career rushing, this afternoon's performance pushed Sprolesto 11th on the list with 1,437 yards.
??????????Sproles landed in seventh place this afternoon on the seasonall-purpose yards chart. He rushed for 155 yards today and 1,487 for theseason. ??????????With three touchdowns, Darren Sproles istied for fourth on the season rushing touchdowns list. He has 15 and needs onemore to tie JoshScobey (2000) in third place.Quarterback EllRoberson also moved up on the list withhis 13th touchdowns today. He is currently eighth on this chart.??????????K-State recorded its third blocked punt for a touchdown ofthe season when Marcus Patton blocked Nebraska and Jerad Johnsonrecovered it for a 17-yard touchdown. Danny Morris scored the Wildcats'other two touchdowns on blocked punts (Louisiana-Monroe, 16 yds.; EasternIllinois, 3 yds.). The Wildcats have blocked five punts this season.
??????????Victor Mann rushed for career-highs of 19yards on five carries this afternoon.
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