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Kansas State Basketball: Brandon Rechsteiner Profile
With the basketball season right around the corner and the football season going as it is, I thought it would be in everyone’s best interest to talk a little basketball. I wrote these profiles in the summer as players started to commit. Now that I know what the rest of the roster looks like, I […]
Kansas State Football: Depth Chart Review – Houston – Defense
The defense was bad. Houston controlled the line of scrimmage, and Weigman made plays when needed. Patrick Overmyer finished the game with an Al Bundy in the scorebook, which, of course, is 4 touchdowns. You guys are smart; Bill Snyder taught you well. Teams that win the line of scrimmage tend to win the game. […]
Kansas State Football: Depth Chart Review – Houston – Offense
This chart explains everything that is currently wrong with the Kansas State offense. The Kansas State offense has been all setup and no punchline. The running backs can’t break a tackle, and the wide receivers can’t make plays downfield. Avery Johnson, in theory, is one of the nation’s most explosive quarterbacks when it comes to […]
FINAL: Houston Cougars 35, Kansas State Wildcats 16
Kansas State couldn’t put anything together consistently on either side of the ball and simply got outplayed Saturday in a 35-16 loss to the Houston Cougars at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. It was one of those games that just felt flat for the Wildcats. They didn’t suffer humilating collapses, it wasn’t a complete disaster at […]
Kansas State vs Houston: 2026 Game 5
Following an off week to regroup, your Kansas State Wildcats return to the friendly confines of Bill Snyder Family Stadium looking to get back on track after a lackluster performance in the Big 12 opener at Cincinnati led to a 26-31 loss to the Bearcats. So now, back in Manhattan, the Wildcats will look back […]
How to Watch: Houston at Kansas State
After a painful loss at Cincinnati and a week to recover, the Cats are back home to try to get back on track. But their opponent is quite possibly the most challenging remaining on the schedule. The Game The Kansas State Wildcats (3-1, 0-1 Big 12) host the Houston Cougars (4-1, 1-1 Big 12). This will be […]
Big 12 Roundup: Part I
FOOTBAAAAW! How We Got Here It’s been a weird few months for the conference since the last football season. Way back in December, the Big 12 had a big moment, when #4 Texas Tech (11-1) took on #11 BYU (11-1) at AT&T Stadium in Arlington for all the conference marbles and for a spot in […]
Kansas State Football: Preview -K-State’s Defense vs Houston’s Run Game.
The Wildcats’ defense needed the week off to lick their wounds after Cincinnati’s rushing attack ran roughshod over the front 7. In hindsight, I underestimated Cincinnati’s offensive line and its ability to push K-State off the line of scrimmage while opening massive seams for its running backs. Cincinnati’s offensive strength matched up with Kansas State’s […]
Kansas State Football: Depth Chart Review – Cincinnati – Defense
*Starters bolded Defensive Line Defensive End Nose Tackle Defensive Tackle Grade: This is what I’ve been nervous about all season. Cincinnati is the first team to try running directly at the Wildcats’ undersized defensive line, but they won’t be the last. Kamari Burns was supposed to anchor the middle, but he spent most of the […]
Kansas State Football: Depth Chart Review vs Cincinnati – Offense
Quarterback *Starters in Bold Avery Johnson: Snaps – 85 – Comp – 30/50 (60%) – Yds – 292 – Td – 1 – Int – 0 – Rushes – 6 – Yds – 38 Grade: B- Avery’s passing numbers are fine. I can’t believe he threw the ball 50 times, but that was a weird […]
Slate: Monday Blues
Football That was not fun. That seems to be the prevailing sentiment after Kansas State’s 31-26 loss to Cincinnati on Saturday. As Jon Morse noted in the official BotC recap, the loss was mostly due to a nightmare third quarter that the Wildcats could not quite recover from before time ran out. We’ve heard this […]
FINAL: Cincinnati Bearcats 31, Kansas State Wildcats 26
K-State simply could not answer Cincinnati’s running game, giving up 271 yards on the ground and three touchdowns, and a terrible third-quarter sequence in which the Bearcats scored twice in under three minutes spelled doom as the Kansas State Wildcats (3-1, 0-1 Big 12) fell 31-26 to the Cincinnati Bearcats (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) tonight […]
Kansas State vs Cincinnati: 2026 Game 4
It wasn’t exactly the dominating performances of the first two weeks, but your Kansas State Wildcats were able to dispatch Tulane, finally, 31-20 last Saturday to improve to 3-0 on the season and a clean-sweep of the non-conference schedule. Now Collin Klein and the Wildcats will look to do something that hasn’t happened at K-State […]
Slate: Bearcats Gameday!
Kansas State (3-0, 0-0 Big 12) plays Cincinnati (3-0, 0-0 Big 12) tonight at Nippert Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 6 PM and the game will air on ESPN2. Full details are available in the How To Watch post. The Big 12 opener for both teams is also the Wildcats’ first road game of the […]
How to Watch: Kansas State at Cincinnati
The Wildcats have done something this fall that’s been a relative rarity: they escaped the non-conference portion of their schedule without a baffling loss, and enter Big 12 play unbeaten. But now it’s time to see how this team performs away from the friendly confines. The Game The Kansas State Wildcats (3-0, 0-0 Big 12) visit the […]
Kansas State Football: Depth Chart Review vs Tulane- Defense
Defensive Line *Starters bolded Defensive End Grade: A I split the defensive ends and interior defensive linemen because one group dominated the game while the other struggled. The Defensive ends contributed 7.5 tackles for loss and 5 sacks. That’s domination. Gregory and Whitaker look like an elite defensive end pairing, with Bryant and Hill providing […]
Kansas State Football: Depth Chart Review vs Tulane – Offense
It took the offense a half to get fully in gear. Tulane sold out to stop the run on defense and managed to contain Kansas State’s running backs. Coach Klein and Gleason countered with Avery Johnson in the quarterback run game, and the rest, as they say, was history. Tulane put the ball in Avery’s […]
Slate: Perfect So Far
Football Kansas State beat Tulane 31-20 to finish up the non-conference schedule. The win means the Wildcats are now 3-0 and receiving votes in the AFCA Coaches’ Poll as well as the AP Top 25. The win was not particularly pretty, and as Jon Morse notes in his BotC recap of the game, the offense […]
FINAL: Kansas State Wildcats 31, Tulane Green Wave 20
A first-half struggle turned into second-half dominance as Kansas State rode a career day by Jaron Tibbs and the best performance of the year by Avery Johnson to roll to a 31-20 victory over the Tulane Green Wave on Saturday at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan. Johnson accounted for 379 yards of offense between […]
Kansas State vs Tulane: 2026 Game 3
The world sure looks nice when your football team is beating the pants off their opponents. For two weeks in a row now, the Kansas State Wildcats came out and imposed their will on another visitor to Bill Snyder Family Stadium. The trick will be to see if they can do it again for a […]
Slate: Tulane Gameday!
Football In the last non-conference game of the season, Kansas State (2-0) plays Tulane (1-1) at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Kickoff is at 11 AM and the game will be on ESPN2. The last time these two teams met in Manhattan, it was the Green Wave that walked off the field with a win. Though […]
How to Watch: Tulane at Kansas State
Kansas State is rolling — so far. But we all remember when a great season was nearly upended on this very weekend, in this very stadium, by this very team in 2022. Thankfully for K-State, their opponent hasn’t been quite the same since that year, their own high-water mark in recent memory. The Game The Kansas […]
Kansas State Football: Depth Chart Review vs Washington State – Offense
Quarterback *Starters in Bold Grade: C One of my criticisms of Avery over the years is that his brain occasionally short circuits on what look like Mundane plays. He knows where the ball is supposed to go, and he throws it without fully processing what’s going on with the defense. He did that twice in […]
Kansas State dominates Washington State 34-7
Avery Johnson threw for three touchdown passes, Rodney Fields ran for over 100 yards again, Joe Jackson had over 100 all-purpose yards, and Josh Manning hauled in 10 passes for 97 yards. More importantly, the defense kept the opponent out of the end zone for the second week in a row as the Kansas State […]
Kansas State vs Washington State: 2026 Game 2
Well, that was a lot of fun. From the return of Snyder 1.0-era pregame skits to the Snyder 1.0-era flattening of an over-matched FCS opponent, it felt like a return to the “good ol’ days” of Kansas State football. It was a grand opening for one of K-State venerated son’s, as Collin Kline’s first win […]
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