MANHATTAN, Kansas (AP) — Avery Johnson threw two touchdown passes, Dylan Edwards scored a 71-yard touchdown after a punt and No. 14 Kansas State defeated No. 20 Arizona 31-7 on Friday night in a rare meeting of new non-conference Big 12 rivals.

The loss ended Arizona’s nine-game winning streak, the longest active winning streak in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

Johnson passed for 156 yards and ran for 110 yards and DJ Giddens added 86 yards and a score as Kansas State (3-0) rebounded from a lackluster road game against Tulane with a commanding win over the desert Wildcats.

Noah Fifita passed for 268 yards with one interception for Arizona (2-1). Tetairoa McMillan caught 11 passes for 138 yards, but the potential first-round NFL draft pick was unable to convert any of those catches into a big play or touchdown.

The schools agreed to the matchup before Arizona left the Pac-12 and moved to the Big 12. And since neither had enough time to find a replacement opponent, Kansas State and Arizona kept the game, although it did not count toward the conference standings.

The game began with laborious and time-consuming touchdown drives between the teams, but otherwise the first 30 minutes were marked by penalties, misjudgments and baffling errors by two teams that wanted to make a statement.

Arizona failed to cover a bad punt, which Edwards returned unchallenged for a touchdown. On the next drive, Fifita lazily threw over the middle into double coverage and was intercepted in the end zone by Kansas State’s Keenan Garber.

Johnson made perhaps the most embarrassing faux pas. He was sacked at Arizona’s 19-yard line with 24 seconds left in the first half. On the next play, the freshman only had to step out of bounds to stop the clock and bring the field goal team onto the field, but instead he turned the field and ran the other way, running out the clock without him having a chance to attempt.

Kansas State still led 14-7 at halftime, and the mistake didn’t matter in the end.

The nimble Johnson started throwing the ball in the second half, leading his team to two consecutive touchdown runs. The first included a 48-yard pass to Jayce Brown on third-and-12 that set up Johnson’s touchdown throw to Brayden Loftin. The next included a 21-yard toss to Loftin before Giddens plowed into the end zone, giving Kansas State a 28-7 lead.

Kansas State stopped Arizona a few minutes later on the fourth attempt and only had to let the clock run out in the fourth quarter.

The conclusion

Arizona might have fared better had it not been for its recurring flagging offense. It committed 30 yards worth of penalties on a single drive in the first half and finished the game with nine penalties for 74 yards.

Kansas State’s defense had to prove itself after allowing 342 yards and 491 total yards to Tulane in last week’s 34-27 comeback win. The Wildcats held Arizona to 324 yards on offense.

Next

Arizona: At No. 12 Utah on September 28 in the Wildcats’ first real Big 12 game.

Kansas State: Next Saturday night at BYU.

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