The promise of a spectacular contest was in the 1998 Big 12 Championship Game played on December 5, 1998, at the Trans World Dome in St. Louis. The combatants were the 10-2 Texas A&M Aggies with Head Coach R C Slocum versus the 11-0 Kansas State Wildcats under the direction of Head Coach Bill Snyder. With a win, K-State was in the mix for the National Championship game. Things were looking good for the Wildcats as they had built a 27–12 at the start of the fourth quarter. Not finished, the Aggies, powered by Running back phenom Sirr Parker, scored 14 points on a pair of touchdown catches by Sirr and a two-point conversion, rallying the Aggies back to tie the game and send it to overtime. It was Parker's 32-yard catch for the winning TD on a 3rd-and-17 in OT session number 2 for Texas A&M that capped the victory. The Number 10 A&M squad outlasted top-ranked Kansas State 36–33 in double overtime. The contest was rated as the 106th Greatest Game in college history by ESPN in 2019.
