1975 Kansas State Wildcats football team

The 1975 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. The team's head football coach was Ellis Rainsberger, in his first of three years at the helm of the Wildcats. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium. 1975 saw the wildcats finish with a record of 3–8, and a dismal 0–7 record in Big Eight Conference play.

1975 was the first time in school history that the Wildcats were shut out three times in one season; the other time was in 1980. The Wildcats were shut out by Texas A&M, Kansas, Nebraska.

Schedule

Date	Opponent#	Rank#	Site	Result	Attendance
9/13/1975	at Tulsa*		Skelly Stadium • Tulsa, Oklahoma	W 17-16	34,000
9/20/1975	Wichita State*		KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas	W 32-0	31,000
9/27/1975	at Wake Forest*		Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, North Carolina	W 17-16	17,700
10/4/1975	No. 6 Texas A&M*		KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas	L 0-10	37,100
10/11/1975	Iowa State		KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas	L 7-17	25,698
10/18/1975	No. 2 Oklahoma		KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas	L 3-25	33,196
10/25/1975	at No. 15 Missouri		Faurot Field • Columbia, Missouri	L 3-35	62,860
11/1/1975	at Kansas		Memorial Stadium • Lawrence, Kansas (Sunflower Showdown)	L 0-28	50,538
11/8/1975	No. 3 Nebraska		KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas	L 0-12	41,300
11/15/1975	at Oklahoma State		Lewis Field • Stillwater, Oklahoma	L 3-56	40,100
11/22/1975	at No. 9 Colorado		Folsom Field • Boulder, Colorado	L 7-33	44,345
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. #Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to game. All times are in Central Time.

Roster

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