Houston Outlasts Oklahoma State 35-32 in a Shootout
Conner Weigman threw five touchdown passes and Houston still needed all of them. Oklahoma State scored 32 and lost, which is a sentence that has more to do with Weigman than with the Cowboys.
It began 3-0 Oklahoma State on a 23-yard field goal, and that was the only lead Oklahoma State ever had. Weigman threw 2 yards to Patrick Overmyer and 7 yards to Amare Thomas to make it 14-3 at the half. Ayo Adeyi ran for a 13-yard touchdown to cut it to 14-10, and Weigman answered with a 2-yard throw to Trent Walker. Drew Mestemaker hit Wyatt Young from 2 yards, Weigman hit Thomas again from 21, and Houston led 28-17 after three quarters.
The fourth got loud. Mestemaker threw 66 yards to Caleb Hawkins and the two-point conversion to Justin Bowick made it 28-25. Weigman answered by throwing 48 yards to Koby Young with 9:48 left to go up 35-25. Bowick caught an 8-yard touchdown with 4:54 to go, and the scoring stopped at 35-32. Houston gained 508 yards to 499, and Mestemaker threw for 365.
Houston is 6-1, Oklahoma State 4-2. Both quarterbacks threw an interception, and the Cowboys lost a fumble. The Cowboys scored 15 in the fourth quarter and still fell three short, and Weigman's 48.9 points were the day's biggest number.
For fantasy, the story is volume. Four different Houston receivers scored: Overmyer, Thomas (twice), Walker and Koby Young, and Thomas finished with 7 catches for 126 yards. On the Oklahoma State side, Wyatt Young had 5 catches for 99 yards and a score, and Hawkins had 125 receiving yards of his own.