2018 Kansas State Football Results: (5-7, 3-6 Big 12); beat South Dakota, 27-24; lost to Mississippi State, 31-10; beat UTSA, 41-17; lost to West Virginia, 35-6; lost to Texas, 19-14; lost to Baylor, 37-34; beat Oklahoma State, 31-12; lost to Oklahoma, 51-14; lost to TCU, 14-13; beat Kansas, 21-17; beat Texas Tech, 21-6; lost to Iowa State, 42-38.
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| Chris Klieman now leads the Kansas State Wildcats |
However, after the 2018 season, which was his 27th as head football coach at K-state, Snyder, who is one of just six coaches to reach the 200-win mark and coach at only one school, retired from coaching.
The Wildcats are now led by first-year head coach Coach Chris Klieman, who has moved up to the NCAA Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) from the NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
Prior to taking over at Kansas State, Klieman won four FCS national championships at North Dakota State University (NDSU), where over five years (2014-18) as the head coach he compiled a record of 72-13. Prior to his years as head coach, he was on the NDSU staff for three years.
Kansas State is 3-2, 0-2 Big 12. The Wildcats have beaten Nicholls (49-14), Bowling Green (52-0) and Mississippi State (31-24). K-State has lost to Oklahoma State (26-13) and Baylor (31-12).
Offensively, Kansas State is averaging nearly 400 yards per game; 218 rushing, 172 passing.
The Wildcats are averaging 31.4 points per game.
Kansas State has a senior-laden offensive line, and the Wildcats began the season with a powerful rushing attack. They ran for 361 yards in a blowout victory over Nicholls. The following week, they had 333 rushing yards against Bowling Green. But then, the Wildcats' ground production dropped.
In K-State's win over Mississippi State, the Wildcats rushed for only 146 yards. In losses to Oklahoma State and Baylor, the Cats only rushed for 126 yards and 123 yards, respectively.
Against Power 5-conference teams, Kansas State is averaging 3.6 yards per rushing attempt.
Senior running back James Gilbert (#34), 5-9, 198 pounds, is Kansas State's leading rusher. He has carried the football 73 times for 415yards. he is averaging 83 rushing yards per game. He has scored four rushing touchdowns and has a long run of 51 yards.
Senior running back Jordon Brown (#6) had been the Wildcats' No. 2 running back, but he has been sidelined by an injury. He has rushed for 166 yards.
Junior running back Harry Trotter (#2), 5-11, 202 pounds, has rushed 33 times for 127 yards. He has scored two touchdowns, and he has a long run of 15 yards.
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Thompson is an adept runner/scrambler. He has run 28 times for 97 yards. He has scored two rushing touchdowns. He has a long run of 20 yards.
Sophomore Nick Ast (#17), 6-5, 209 pounds, is the backup quarterback. He has appeared in three games. He has completed three-of-three passes for 28 yards.
Kansas State's receiving corps is led by senior wide receiver Dalton Schoen (#83), 6-1, 209pounds. He has caught 16 passes for 219 yards and three touchdowns. He has a long reception of 38 yards.
Redshirt freshman wide receiver Malik Knowles (#4), 6-2, 186 pounds, has 10 reception for 142 yards. he has caught two touchdown passes and has a long reception of 34 yards.
Redshirt freshman wide receiver Phillip Brooks (#88), 5-7, 167 pounds, has caught 15 passes for 107 yards. He has no touchdown receptions and a long reception of 18 yards.
Sophomore tight end Nick Lenners (#87), 6-5, 252 pounds, has five receptions for 75 yards. He has no touchdown receptions and a long reception of 24 yards.
K-State's offensive line has allowed 10 sacks. Baylor recorded 15 tackles for loss in 31-12 victory over Kansas State in Manhattan on October 5.
The Wildcat's opponents have forced 10 fumbles. Kansas State has lost six of the fumbles.
Kansas State’s opponents are averaging 344 yards of total offense per game; 189 rushing, 155 passing. They are scoring 19 points a game. They have scored eight rushing touchdowns and three passing touchdowns.
The Wildcats' defense has gotten six sacks. They have forced six fumbles, recovering three. They have five interceptions.
Senior linebacker Da’Quan Patton (#5), 6-1, 227 pounds, leads K-State's defense with 24 tackles.
Senior defensive back Denzel Goolsby (#20), 5-11, 204, pounds, has 21 tackles, one tackle for loss, and one interception.
Junior defensive back AJ Parker (#12), 5-11, 178 pounds, has 20 tackles, two tackles for loss, and two interceptions.
Redshirt freshman defensive back Wayne Jones (#4), 6-0, 205 pounds, has 19 tackles.
Junior defensive back Jahron McPherson (#31), 6-1, 197 pounds, has 18 tackles and one tackle for loss.
Junior linebacker Elijah Sullivan (#3), 6-0, 210 pounds, has 1.5 tackles for loss, and one interception.
Senior defensive back Darreyl Patterson (#21), 5-11, 174 pounds, has an interception.
Sophomore defensive end Wyatt Hubert (#56), 6-3, 258 pounds, has four tackles for loss and two sacks.
Redshirt freshman linebacker Daniel Green (#22), senior defensive end Kyle Ball (#44), senior defensive tackle Trey Dishon (#99) and junior defensive end Bronson Massie (#90) each have one sack.
Junior Blake Lynch (#10) kicks field goals. He is six-of-seven, with a long field goal of 46 yards. He has not had a field goal attempt blocked this season.
Punting duties are handled by senior Devin Anctil (#21). He has punted 21 times, for an average of 44 yards per punt. He has a long punt of 61 yards. He has not had a punt blocked this season.
Brooks and Knowles are the main punt- and kickoff-returners.
Brooks has returned five punts, with a long punt return of 52 yards. He has no touchdowns, and a long punt return of 52 yards. He has returned seven kickoffs for 163 yards. He has no touchdowns, and a long kickoff return of 44 yards.
Knowles has returned four kickoffs for 151 yards. He has a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.
Kansas State was invited into the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1913. Eventually, the Missouri Valley split up. In 1928, six of the seven state schools in the Missouri Valley, including Kansas State, banded together in a conference that retained the MVIAA name. This group --K State, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa State -- evolved into the Big Eight Conference.
From 1935 to 1990, Kansas State only had four winning seasons. Part of the problem was that Kansas State was one of the few major schools that didn't make a significant investment in its football program after World War II. For many years, the Wildcats spent far less on football – and athletics as a whole – than any Big Eight school.
Reflective of the mid-century futility was a 28-game losing streak from 1945–1948, the second-longest in NCAA FBS history. Kansas State also had losing streaks of 18 and 17 games in the 1960s. By 1989, the school had become the first program in Division I-A (FBS) to lose 500 games, and had the worst overall record in the nation at 299–509–41. Things changed in 1989, when the athletic department hired Iowa's offensive coordinator, Bill Snyder, to replace Stan Parrish as head coach. Kansas State has had its most success under Snyder. In 1998, Kansas State finished the regular season with an 11–0 record. From 1995 to 2001, the school appeared in the AP Poll for 108 consecutive weeks – the 15th-longest streak in college football history.
Snyder took over a program that had the worst record in NCAA Division I-A (FBS) history at the time and had gone 27 consecutive games without a win (0-26-1) dating to October 1986. From 1935-1988, the last year before Snyder's arrival, Kansas state only had won 137 games. Since the 1982 Independence Bowl season, the Wildcats had won seven games. Snyder presided over one of the most successful rebuilding projects in the history of college athletics, ultimately earning enshrinement in the College Football Hall of Fame for his work at Kansas State.
Considering the dreadful state of the program he had inherited, Snyder made the Wildcats respectable fairly quickly. In his third year, 1991, Snyder's Wildcats finished 7–4 and narrowly missed receiving the school's second bowl bid ever. The team had a winning record in conference play for only the third time since winning the conference title in 1934. In Snyder's fifth season, in 1993, Kansas State played in the 1993 Copper Bowl, only its second bowl bid ever. They pounded Wyoming, 52 - 17, for the first bowl win in school history, breaking one of the longest such droughts in Division I-A at the time. Success and high rankings continued over the next decade, including six top-10 finishes in the AP Poll and an 11–0 regular season in 1998 (before stumbling in the Big 12 Championship Game against Texas a&m). Snyder won, in pat, because he improved K-State's recruiting by tapping the rich talent base in Kansas' junior college system. Snyder and K-State won the Big 12 Conference championship in 2003, with a 35–7 victory over No.1-ranked Oklahoma (the 69 years since the last conference title in 1934 was the longest span between football titles in Division I history).
In his first 17-year stint as head coach at K-State, Snyder won 136 games – as many as his predecessors had won from 1935 to 1988 – and led Kansas State to 11 consecutive bowl games (1993–2003), including six wins. Snyder's legacy at K-State during his first term also included winning or sharing four Big 12 North titles (1998, 1999, 2000 and 2003) and six 11-win seasons.
After Snyder "retired," K-State hired Ron Prince on December 5, 2005, as its 33rd head football coach. Prince was formerly an offensive line coach at the University of Virginia. In 2006, Prince led Kansas State to a 7–6 record, the team's first winning season since 2003. In 2007, the team slipped to a 5-7 record. With three games remaining in the 2008 season, on November 5, K-State announced that Prince would not return as head coach in 2009. On November 23, 2008, Kansas State announced that Snyder was returning as head coach in 2009.
Following a loss to UCLA at the Rose Bowl on September 19, 2009, Kansas State became the fourth FBS teams to lose 600 games, joining Northwestern, Indiana and Wake Forest. In 2012, Snyder's Wildcats won the Big 12 Conference title, the school's sixth conference football championship. Kansas State also earned the school's first No. 1 ranking in the BCS standings after starting the season 10–0, before falling to Baylor in its 11th game of the season. The Wildcats earned the conference's automatic berth in the 2013 Fiesta Bowl.
After the 2018, season, Snyder officially, and fully, retired, after 27 seasons at Kansas State.
Beginning with the 2019 season, a new era of Kansas State football began, with Chris Kleiman as the Wildcats' head coach.
Klieman has moved up to the NCAA Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) from the NCAA Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
Prior to taking over at Kansas State, Klieman won four FCS national championships at North Dakota State University (NDSU), where over five years (2014-18) as the head coach he compiled a record of 72-13. Prior to his years as head coach, he was on the NDSU staff for three years.
Kansas State Football Stadium: Bill Snyder Family Stadium has been the home of K-State's football team since 1968.
Renamed in honor of Snyder by a proclamation of the Kansas Board of Regents on November 16, 2005, Bill Snyder Family Stadium sits on the north end of campus. Originally named KSU Stadium, the original facility was built at a cost of $1.6 million and financed from student fees, athletics gate receipts and contributions.
The stadium opened its doors on September 21, 1968. The seating capacity was 35,000. Following the 1998 season, the addition of a deck and sky suites on the east side of the stadium increased capacity to more than 50,000. On November 11, 2000, 53,811 fans witnessed Kansas State 's 29-28 win over Nebraska . It remains the largest crowd to witness a sporting event in Kansas.
Prior to the 2011 season, AstroTurf GameDay Grass 3D60H was selected as the new field surface at Bill Snyder Family Stadium, replacing the surface that was installed prior to the 2002 season.
The installation of the GameDay Grass infill system at Bill Snyder Family Stadium was AstroTurf's first on a game-day stadium field of a Football Bowl Subdivision member. It features AstroTurf's revolutionary new Horseshoe fiber, which is an "Omega" shape with two end columns with a thicker diameter. The design imparts mechanical memory so that the fiber remains upright longer, unlike other fields whose fibers quickly flatten and split or shred at the spine.
K-State is one of three schools to still not sell alcohol at football games, alongside Baylor and Iowa State.
In addition to Bill Snyder Family Stadium, Kansas State's practice facilities include the 94,000 square foot Indoor Practice Facility.
Renamed in honor of Snyder by a proclamation of the Kansas Board of Regents on November 16, 2005, Bill Snyder Family Stadium sits on the north end of campus. Originally named KSU Stadium, the original facility was built at a cost of $1.6 million and financed from student fees, athletics gate receipts and contributions.
The stadium opened its doors on September 21, 1968. The seating capacity was 35,000. Following the 1998 season, the addition of a deck and sky suites on the east side of the stadium increased capacity to more than 50,000. On November 11, 2000, 53,811 fans witnessed Kansas State 's 29-28 win over Nebraska . It remains the largest crowd to witness a sporting event in Kansas.
Prior to the 2011 season, AstroTurf GameDay Grass 3D60H was selected as the new field surface at Bill Snyder Family Stadium, replacing the surface that was installed prior to the 2002 season.
The installation of the GameDay Grass infill system at Bill Snyder Family Stadium was AstroTurf's first on a game-day stadium field of a Football Bowl Subdivision member. It features AstroTurf's revolutionary new Horseshoe fiber, which is an "Omega" shape with two end columns with a thicker diameter. The design imparts mechanical memory so that the fiber remains upright longer, unlike other fields whose fibers quickly flatten and split or shred at the spine.
K-State is one of three schools to still not sell alcohol at football games, alongside Baylor and Iowa State.
In addition to Bill Snyder Family Stadium, Kansas State's practice facilities include the 94,000 square foot Indoor Practice Facility.
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