Oklahoma State Closes on a 21-0 Run to Beat UCF
Oklahoma State scored 21 points in a row to finish this one, and UCF's quarterback threw four touchdown passes and still lost by two scores. That is a fun sentence to write about a 42-28 game.
The first half was a trade. UCF scored first on a 1-yard Keyone Jenkins pass to Grayson Brousseau, Drew Mestemaker answered with an 11-yard run, and Jenkins hit Joshua Derry from 12 yards to put UCF back up 14-7. Morgan McPhaul tied it with a 1-yard run, and Justin Bowick's 18-yard catch put Oklahoma State ahead 21-14. Jenkins found Tyren Hornes from three yards with 13 seconds left in the half and it was 21-21. The game was tied three times, and the Cowboys led 24-21 after a Sam Keltner field goal in the third.
Then the fourth quarter. Keltner kicked another from 29 yards, and Evan Jackson returned a fumble 28 yards for a touchdown (Mestemaker ran in the two-point try) to make it 35-21 with 10:32 left. Wyatt Young caught a 5-yard pass from Mestemaker and it was 42-21. Take away the fumble return and this is 34-28, still Oklahoma State, but a one-score game. UCF got a Jenkins touchdown to Caden Piening with 3:57 left and no more time to use it.
The yardage says the Knights were not far off. Oklahoma State had 415 total yards to UCF's 375, and Mestemaker threw for 304 on 19 of 28. UCF turned it over twice (one interception, one lost fumble) and the Cowboys gave it away once, also a lost fumble.
Oklahoma State is 4-1 and UCF is 3-3. Jenkins had the top fantasy game at 35.9 points, and he lost anyway.