UCF Beats Kansas 33-32 on a Touchdown with One Second Left
One second. That is how much time was left when Alonza Barnett III found Caden Piening from 6 yards out and UCF finally took the lead for good, 33-32. Kansas had gone ahead with 1:06 to play. The lead lasted 1:05.
UCF looked to be coasting. A 44-yard touchdown from Barnett to Joshua Derry at 9:52 of the third quarter made it 26-7, and Kansas had scored just once, on an Isaiah Marshall 1-yard run in the first. From that point Kansas outscored UCF 25-7. Marshall ran 30 yards for a score in the third, Khijohnn Cummings-Coleman went in from 1 yard in the fourth, and Martin Connington kicked a 34-yard field goal to make it 26-24.
Then Dylan Edwards ran in from 2 yards with 1:06 left, and Marshall threw to Nik McMillan on the two-point try to make it 32-26. That is eight points on one play, which is why a two-point deficit was suddenly a six-point lead. UCF answered with the touchdown to Piening, Will Stone's kick, and a one-point win. The lead changed hands three times, and the last one counted. UCF trailed by as many as seven (early, 7-0) and still won, which is a strange sentence to write about a team that was up 26-7.
Kansas had more yards (404 to 358) and the better rushing day (194 to 107), but lost two fumbles. UCF is 5-4. Kansas is 3-6, having erased a 19-point deficit and lost anyway.
For fantasy, Marshall put up 32.9 points and lost, Derry had 28.3 with 143 yards, and Barnett added 25.6.