K-Stated

The Kansas State Wildcats still need to win two more games to become bowl eligible, but if they do their part it appears at least three bowl games will be interested in them.

Representatives from the Texas and Holiday Bowls have requested credentials to attend Kansas State’s next two home games against Kansas and Missouri. And the Insight Bowl had someone at the Wildcats’ first game of the season.

Playing in front of bowl representatives is nothing new or extraordinary in college football. They travel around the country and watch all sorts of teams (good and bad) but this is a positive sign for Kansas State. No bowl representatives were in Manhattan to watch it defeat Colorado on Saturday.

The fans were happy but Bill Snyder was angry.

Even with his team having just defeated Colorado 20-6 — and maintained its position atop the Big 12 North standings in the process — on Saturday at the stadium that features his name, he saw an offensive effort so poor that he couldn’t be happy.

Most reporters were a little shocked by his anger. Sitting at 5-3 overall and 3-1 in the Big 12, especially with Nebraska and Kansas losing, puts K-State in a fantastic position to win the division. If the Wildcats win their final two home games, odds are they will win the division.
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Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder said he didn’t see this coming. A better effort? Sure. Overall improved play? Yeah, that was possible. A win? Totally within reach.

But a 62-14 pounding of Texas A&M a week after the Wildcats themselves were on the wrong end of a 66-14 score at Texas Tech? No, he couldn’t have predicted that.

As he said in the postgame media interview, if he could predict the future, he’d be working “in Vegas.”

The few people out there who figured K-State could beat A&M by a massive amount of points are likely wishing they could reverse time and go to Vegas today. In one of the biggest turnarounds you will ever see, the Wildcats went from losing to a Big 12 south team by 52 points to beating one by 48. That’s a 100-point difference.
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At the beginning of his weekly press conference, Bill Snyder was asked to share his thoughts on the mounting pressure that aging coaches such as Florida State’s Bobby Bowden and Penn State’s Joe Paterno are currently facing or have dealt with in the past.

Paterno, having recently turned the Nittany Lions around into a Top 15 team, isn’t facing tons of pressure these days. But Bowden, with his Seminoles off to a disappointing 2-4 start, is.

Fans are calling for him to retire and so is the chairman of Florida State’s Borad of Trustees, as he recently made a public call for Bowden’s ouster. That, more than anything, is what Snyder said he was displeased with.

“It makes no sense that someone who is as closely tied to that university would make those public statements,” Snyder said. “They wanna have that dialogue with Bobby in a closed environment, well, that’s probably what they’re supposed to do. It’s their job. But to make that kind of public statement to me makes no sense at all.”
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Joseph Kassanavoid has come up with big hits in each of his last two games. He even forced a fumble last time out.

Collin Klein has made catches in his last two games. Two against Iowa State and one against Tennessee Tech.

They were the efforts of college football players trying to move up the depth chart, but what made them so interesting is that both came to Kansas State hoping to play quarterback. At the beginning of this season, that’s where both were listed on the official roster.

Throw Tysyn Hartman into the mix, and K-State currently has at least three former quarterbacks seeing time at new positions.
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