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If only Kansas State could play Miami every week. Just a week removed from scoring at will in the rout over the Hurricanes, offense suddenly became difficult for the Wildcats on Saturday, needing just about every break to come away with a 35-21 victory over North Texas at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. "If you don't prepare yourself well, about anything can happen," K-State coach Bill Snyder said. "And we weren't prepared well…There probably isn't anything we don't need vast improvement on — and that's on both sides of the ball." The 15th-ranked Wildcats improved to 3-0 to close out nonconference play, but the win didn't come easy against a pesky Mean Green team playing on the road against its second top-15 opponent in three weeks. "That's why you play the game," K-State quarterback Collin Klein said. "Everybody can beat you. Hats off to (North Texas) — they're a tough team. They're going to do some good things…We would have liked to execute a little better, but we got it done." K-STATE 35, N. TEXAS 21 North Texas 7 0 6 8 — 21 Kansas State 7 7 7 14 — 35 Scoring Summary First quarter NT — Chancellor 6 run (Olen kick), 4:00 KS — Lockett 96 kickoff return (Cantele kick), 3:47 Second quarter KS — Thompson 38 pass from Klein (Cantele kick), 2:24 Third quarter NT — Jimmerson 1 run (PAT failed), 7:03 KS — Thompson 21 pass from Klein (Cantele kick), 3:15 Fourth quarter KS — Hubert 6 run (Cantele kick), 13:20 KS — Klein 1 run (Cantele kick), 6:44 NT — Chancellor 19 pass from Thompson (PAT Thompson to Byrd), 2:31 UNT KSU First downs 21 21 Rushes-yards 40-145 28-143 Passing 208 230 Comp-Att-Int 25-28-0 15-20-1 Return yards 87 119 Punts-average 5-34 2-41 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 2-1 Penalties-yards 3-35 1-15 Time of poss 37:04 22:56 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING — North Texas, Jimmerson 8-68, Byrd 19-61, Chancellor 5-24, Brown 4-0, Thompson 4-( 8). K-State, Hubert 12-38, Klein 11-85, Sams 4-19, Wilson 1-1. PASSING — North Texas, Thompson 25-28-0 208. K-State, Klein 15-20-1 230. RECEIVING — North Texas, Delgado 9-86, Chancellor 5-33, Byrd 4-23, Jimmerson 2-28, Byrnes 2-21, Power 2-10, Smith 1-7. K-State, Thompson 5-102, Harper 5-78, Sexton 2-8, Wilson 1-23, Tannahill 1-13, Lockett 1-6. Read More: http://www.themercury.com/K-StateSports/article.aspx?articleId=dedbdb23e113423c820f4372596466b7

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Collin Klein stood near a wall, a young man at ease and perhaps unaware of his own abilities. Not at the point in which Klein, the Kansas State quarterback, could understand the magnitude of his effect — on a game, a season, on people. Then again, who could truly digest words like this: “Collin makes everything possible,” Wildcats linebacker Tre Walker said. Indeed, Klein was so good in Saturday’s 52-13 whooping of the University of Miami — 71 yards rushing, 210 yards passing and four total touchdowns — that it occasionally defied words. So it’s perfectly normal, after watching a performance like that, to do what Klein did: scoff, roll your eyes and just savor the moment. The thing is, though, with Klein and a promising defense and coach Bill Snyder’s usual magic, anything truly is possible. The Wildcats are far better than their No. 21 ranking, and after Saturday it will be neither unpopular nor inappropriate to ponder the heights K-State might reach in 2012. Miami isn’t the Miami of a dozen years ago, but it hung 41 points on Boston College a week earlier and remains a magnet for some of the nation’s best recruits. The Hurricanes are young and flawed, and K-State did what good teams are supposed to do to young and flawed teams. The true heights of this season will ride with Klein’s ability to do what he did Saturday — and, of course, to stay healthy. He takes big hits and doesn’t slide. That doesn’t appear to be a consideration, and every crashing blow he absorbs could, in theory, turn the tide of K-State’s season. But this is the Wildcats’ offense, and a change isn’t in consideration, either. But Klein is a senior who seemingly can be counted out of nothing. This is a young man who didn’t even play football until he was in ninth grade, and probably faced better odds of being an impact basketball player when he was deciding on a college than being a contributor in football. Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/08/3803936/klein-is-the-reason-wildcats-can.html Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/08/3803936/klein-is-the-reason-wildcats-can.html#storylink=cpy