Overmyer Catches Four Touchdowns as Houston Beats Kansas State
Patrick Overmyer is a tight end, and he caught four touchdown passes. Houston beat Kansas State 35-16 to improve to 5-1, and 28 of its 35 points came on Overmyer catches from Conner Weigman: 1 yard, 2 yards, 8 yards and 2 yards. Before this game he had two touchdowns all season.
Houston never trailed. Overmyer's 1-yarder opened the scoring in the first quarter, Luis Rodriguez kicked a 29-yard field goal as the quarter expired, and Overmyer made it 14-3 with another short catch in the second. Makhi Hughes ran 13 yards for a touchdown to make it 21-3 at the half. After that it was a matter of how many more Overmyer could collect.
He got two. An 8-yarder midway through the third made it 28-3, and a 2-yarder with 48 seconds left in the quarter made it 35-9. Kansas State scored late, a 13-yard pass from Avery Johnson to Garrett Oakley (the two-point try failed) and a 6-yarder from Johnson to Jaron Tibbs in the fourth, which is why 35-16 reads closer than the game was.
The yardage backs it up: 475 total yards for Houston to 299 for the Wildcats, 233 rushing yards to 117, and no turnovers against one. Johnson went 16 of 30 for 182 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. Kansas State falls to 3-2.
For fantasy, Overmyer was the top scorer in the game at 40.4 points, and Weigman was right behind him at 35.8. If you had both, you had a good Saturday.