The West Virginia Mountaineers placed all of their focus on shutting down Kansas State's rushing attack on Saturday night. The Mountaineers did so successfully,

MORGANTOWN — No. 17 Kansas State knew that West Virginia would try to shut down Big 12 rushing leader DJ Giddens, and that enabled quarterback Avery Johnson to put together a career game. Johnson threw three touchdown passes in the Wildcats' 45-18 win over West Virginia on Saturday night,

In fact, the K-State quarterback didn’t attempt a single run against West Virginia. He didn’t even try to scramble for yards when the pocket was collapsing around him, though he did scramble out of one potential tackle to find wide receiver Ty Bowman for a nifty first down.

Kansas State sophomore quarterback Avery Johnson spoiled West Virginia’s homecoming, throwing for 298 yards and three touchdowns as the 17th-ra

With West Virginia determined to shut down Kansas State football's run game, Avery Johnson took matters into his own hands with a career passing day.

Avery Johnson threw for career highs in yards (298) and touchdowns (three) in his eighth career start as No. 17 Kansas State dominated host West Virginia 45-18 on Saturday night.

Kansas State’s blowout victory over West Virginia was filled with style points on Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium.

WVU dominated by No. 17 Kansas State at home 45-18 in the team's homecoming game. WVU led the game in time of possession 34:22 to Kansas State's 25:38. West Virginia quarterback Garrett Greene recorded a season-low passer rating (81.

Kansas State's DJ Giddens scored on runs of 1 and 18 yards. The Big 12 rushing leader was held to a season-low 57 yards. But Johnson picked apart West Virginia's injury-depleted secondary, finishing 19 of 29 for a career-high 298 yards.

Avery Johnson threw three touchdown passes, Marques Sigle returned an interception for a touchdown and No. 17 Kansas State beat West Virginia 45-18 on Saturday night.