1998 Kansas State Wildcats football team

1998 Kansas State Wildcats football
Big 12 North champion
Alamo Bowl, L 34–37 vs. Purdue
Conference Big 12 Conference
Division North
Ranking
Coaches No. 9
AP No. 10
1998 record 11–2 (8–0 Big 12)
Head coach Bill Snyder (10th season)
Offensive coordinator Ron Hudson (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator Mike Stoops (3rd season)
Home stadium KSU Stadium
(Capacity: 43,000)
1998 Big 12 football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
Northern Division
No. 10 Kansas State x  8 –0     11 –2  
No. 19 Nebraska  5 –3     9 –4  
No. 21 Missouri  5 –3     8 –4  
Colorado  4 –4     8 –4  
Kansas  1 –7     4 –7  
Iowa State  1 –7     3 –8  
Southern Division
No. 11 Texas A&M x$  7 –1     11 –3  
No. 15 Texas  6 –2     9 –3  
Texas Tech  4 –4     7 –5  
Oklahoma State  3 –5     5 –6  
Oklahoma  3 –5     5 –6  
Baylor  1 –7     2 –9  
Championship: Texas A&M 36, Kansas State 33 
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1998 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head football coach was Bill Snyder. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium. 1998 saw the Wildcats finish with a record of 11–2, and an 8–0 record in Big 12 Conference play.

The Wildcats finished the regular season undefeated (11-0) and were ranked second in the nation ahead of their matchup with tenth-ranked Texas A&M in the 1998 Big 12 Championship Game in St. Louis. Kansas State would go on to lose the game in overtime, losing their chance at a national championship.[1]

After the Big 12 Championship Game, Kansas State did not receive a spot in the inaugural Bowl Championship Series despite being ranked in its top four as well as the highest ranked non-champion from any conference. They also were not invited to the Cotton Bowl Classic in Dallas, as the conference runner-up typically would be, or the Holiday Bowl in San Diego, which at the time was contracted to invite the third place team in the conference; those bowls chose Texas and Nebraska instead. Instead, Kansas State was invited to the Alamo Bowl,[2] where it lost to the unranked Purdue Boilermakers, who drove 80 yards for a touchdown in the final minute to defeat Kansas State 37-34.[3]

Following the end of the season, a new rule was created. Nicknamed the "Kansas State Rule", the #3 ranked team would always have an automatic bid to a BCS bowl game.

The Wildcats finished the season as the top scoring team in NCAA Division I-A (at 48 points per game), and set a school record for points scored with 610.[4]

Schedule

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 5 6:10 PM Indiana State* No. 6 KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas W 66–0   41,728
September 12 11:30 AM Northern Illinois* No. 5 KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas FSN W 73–7   41,967
September 19 2:30 PM Texas No. 5 KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas ABC W 48–7   43,714
September 26 1:10 PM NE Louisiana* No. 5 KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas W 62–7   42,029
October 10 6:00 PM at No. 14 Colorado No. 5 Folsom Field • Boulder, Colorado FSN W 16–9   51,581
October 17 2:30 PM Oklahoma State No. 4 KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas ABC W 52–20   43,694
October 24 1:10 PM Iowa Statedagger No. 4 KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas W 52–7   43,203
October 31 11:30 AM at Kansas No. 4 Memorial Stadium • Lawrence, Kansas (Sunflower Showdown) FSN W 54–6   43,000
November 7 1:00 PM at Baylor No. 4 Floyd Casey Stadium • Waco, Texas W 49–6   38,217
November 14 2:30 PM No. 11 Nebraska No. 2 KSU Stadium • Manhattan, Kansas ABC W 40–30   44,298
November 21 2:30 PM at No. 19 Missouri No. 2 Faurot Field • Columbia, Missouri ABC W 31–25   68,174
December 5 2:30 PM vs. No. 10 Texas A&M No. 2 Trans World Dome • St. Louis, Missouri (Big 12 Championship) ABC L 33–36 2OT  60,798
December 29 7:00 PM vs. Purdue* No. 4 Alamodome • San Antonio, Texas (Alamo Bowl) ESPN L 34–37   60,780
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Central Time.

Table references[5]

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Final 
AP 6 (2) 5 (2) 5 (2) 5 (2) 5 (2) 5 (2) 4 (2) 4 (2) 4 (2) 4 (3) 2 (19) 2 (29) 2 (24) 2 (24) 4 10 
Coaches 6 (1) 5 (1) 4 (1) 3 (1) 3 (1) 4 (1) 3 (2) 3 (3) 3 (5) 2 (5) 1 (30) 1 (36½) 1 (31½) 1 (30½) 4 9 
BCS Not released 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 Not released

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Postseason Awards

Players in the 1999 NFL Draft

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL ClubRef
Martín GramáticaK380Tampa Bay Buccaneers[7]
Jeff KellyLB6198Atlanta Falcons[7]
Ryan YoungOT7223New York Jets[7]
Michael BishopQB7227New England Patriots[7]
Justin SwiftTE7238Denver Broncos[7]
Darnell McDonaldWR7240Tampa Bay Buccaneers[7]

References

  1. ↑ Barr, Josh (December 7, 1998). "Vols, Seminoles Head to Fiesta Bowl, Wildcats to Frustration". The Washington Post. p. D01.
  2. ↑ King, David (December 29, 1998). "K-State Out to Prove It Belongs -- Elsewhere: A National Title May Be Out of Reach, But Not Out of Mind at the Alamo Bowl". The Washington Post. p. D07.
  3. ↑ King, David (December 30, 1998). "Alamo Bowl: Wildcats Are Upset By Purdue: Purdue 37, Kansas State 34". The Washington Post. p. C08.
  4. ↑ Points scored fact Archived July 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ DeLassus, David. "Kansas State University coaching records by game (1998)". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Kansas State 1998 AP Football Rankings". collegepollarchive.com. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "1999 NFL Draft". pro-football-reference.com.
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