Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury, left, talks with quarterback Patrick Mahomes in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Baylor Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, in Arlington, Texas. Baylor won 63-35. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

The Texas Tech-Kansas 11 a.m. kickoff Saturday at Memorial Stadium will be ignored by most of the college football world. Five years ago, KU head coach David Beaty and Tech’s Kliff Kingsbury were on the same sideline in the most memorable college football game of this decade.

ESPN.com, in a story under the headline “When Johnny Football Mania took over the world,” spoke to both Beaty and Kingsbury for their memories of the Nov. 10, 2012 game in which Johnny Manziel led Texas A&M to a victory against mighty Alabama. Kingsbury was offensive coordinator for A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin and Beaty was receivers coach.

“Johnny was the kind that if he felt he could just go into the game and do his deal, there wasn’t a lot of extra put into it, if you can imagine that,” Kingsbury told ESPN.com. “But that was [a week] where he was spending some more time watching film. I think he understood the magnitude.”

Said Beaty: “One of the biggest memories for me was just how electric that place was. It was unreal. That’s why you want to play college football, right there.”

Kingsbury addressed what the game did for Johnny Mania: “(Manziel) was already going pretty good down in College Station, prior to that. … (The Alabama win) took it to a whole other level. We show up and there’s I don’t know how many thousands of people waiting — and here comes the rock star. They had to have police security literally walk him through these masses of people to get him to his car.”

The world won’t be watching Saturday’s game, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be extremely entertaining, which it has a chance to be for football fans who like high-scoring games.