MANBALL.With 24 seconds to play, Adrian Martinez fumbled, and the Texas Longhorns withstood a ferocious second-half comeback attempt by the Kansas State Wildcats in a 34-27 win at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
Texas (6-3, 4-2) surged out to a 31-10 halftime lead, but the Wildcats (6-3, 4-2) held the Longhorns to three second half points while surging back to get within a touchdown. However penalties and, for the first time this season, turnovers by Martinez were too much to overcome for K-State, which lost their sixth straight game to Texas and fall into a three-way tie with Texas and Oklahoma State in second place — and a deadlock on the round robin, meaning the tiebreakers would be absurd if…
