Chris Klieman brought an aggressive mindset from Manhattan, Kansas, to Dublin, Ireland, but it didn’t pay off for his Kansas State Wildcats as they fell 24-21 to Iowa State in Week 0 of the 2025 college football season.
Klieman went for it on fourth down four times, but his team converted just once. The most daring of his fourth-down decisions came at 8:19 in the fourth quarter with his team trailing 17-14 and facing fourth-and-1 from its own 30-yard line. Klieman and first-year offensive coordinator Matt Wells kept the ball in junior quarterback Avery Johnson’s hands, but he was stopped for no gain.