Some afternoons are merely played. Others are entered into the record, and this one belongs in the record. Patrick Overmyer came to the Flint Hills as a tight end. He left it as a piece of football arithmetic that doesn’t get done often: four catches, four trips to the end zone, and a tie with the FBS record for touchdown receptions by a tight end in a single game.

On Tuesday, the college game answered in kind. The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award named Overmyer its National Player of the Week. The John Mackey Award, which exists to honor the nation’s best tight end, recognized him too. Few players collect both from one Saturday, and Overmyer earned both in 60 minutes.

The numbers read like a ledger kept by a patient bookkeeper. Overmyer caught eight passes for 83 yards in No. 22 Houston’s 35-16 win, and four of those catches were touchdowns, from 1, 2, 8 and 2 yards. None was long, and none needed to be.

The first came on the opening possession, at the end of a 75-yard, 12-play drive that put Houston ahead 7-0 and told Kansas State what kind of day it would be.

The second, with 9:52 left in the second quarter, made it 14-3. The third capped a 76-yard drive after halftime and made it 28-3. The fourth, late in the third quarter, made it 35-9. By then the Wildcats were chasing a game that had already left without them.

Conner Weigman finished 19-of-30 for 242 yards and four touchdowns, every one to the same target. Houston outgained Kansas State 475 yards to 299 and held the ball for 34:49 to the Wildcats’ 25:11. Makhi Hughes ran for 78 yards and a score, and Re’Shaun Sanford II added 90. This was a team playing one patient song, and the tight end carried the melody.

It was supposed to be harder. Kansas State came in allowing the fewest passing yards per game in the country, 106.3. Houston passed that number before halftime.

Overmyer is a Kingwood Park High graduate who spent three seasons at UTSA before coming home to the Coogs. He wears No. 9. Through five games he had two touchdowns, and Saturday he added four more. His season now stands at 33 catches for 400 yards and six touchdowns. No Houston player had caught four touchdown passes in a game since Patrick Edwards in 2011.

The Tyler Rose Award is named for Earl Campbell, the East Texas battering ram who won a Heisman at Texas and carried the Houston Oilers for seven seasons. It goes to the top offensive player in the country with Texas ties, and it asks for more than yards. It asks for tenacity, teamwork and steadiness under pressure. Campbell would have recognized all of that in a tight end who spent a Saturday in Kansas scoring every time Houston put the ball in his hands.

The Mackey Award is its own kind of respect, because it comes from people who study the position for a living. Overmyer was on its preseason watch list, the second straight year a Houston tight end has been.

There is no time to admire it. Houston (5-1, 2-1 Big 12), now No. 20 in the AP Top 25 and No. 18 in the Coaches Poll, comes home Saturday for a Big 12 game against No. 18 Oklahoma State at TDECU Stadium. Kickoff is 6:30 p.m. CT on FOX.

Houston beat the Cowboys 39-17 in this series last October. Oklahoma State will arrive with the film from Manhattan and a clear idea of whom to look for. Good luck finding him. He’s number nine, he’s 6-foot-5, and he has four touchdowns’ worth of confidence.