What a weirdly terrible season it’s been so far here in 2025.
Your Kansas State Wildcats enter the second half of the season at 2-4 overall and 1-2 in (official) Big 12 play. The season isn’t over, and there
is still a legitimate path to bowl eligibility. But it’s not going to be easy despite an overall easing of the schedule.
That’s because this team is still broken. They still look lost. They still look unenthused. And coaching has been AWFUL, especially on offense. That Matt Wells still has a job is a very serious concern. This team is floundering, and it doesn’t look like Chris Klieman is ready to make the hard choices necessary to fix the structural problems currently facing the program. A coach that doesn’t understand that he needs to run the ball with the lead late in the game, or in a goal-to-go situation where you need to force your opponent to burn timeouts, is not a coach that should be getting paid 6-7 figures to coordinate an offense. Even Courtney Messingham would’ve run the ball in the goal-to-go situation…
Regardless of coaching, the talent is there — and we even get to see it from time to time. But aside from the UCF game we haven’t been able to see it consistently on the field for the course of a game. The team that took the field against UCF can find four more wins and earn bowl eligibility. But the team that lost in Arizona and Waco is going to have trouble even dispatching beleaguered Oklahoma State in a few weeks — and have little hope of maintaining The Streak. Who wins in Manhattan today will depend on which K-State team shows up, because TCU is a team that K-State should beat.
Can these Cats come out fired up? Or are we headed to the worst season since 2004?
We’ve got an 2:30pm CT kickoff from Bill Snyder Family Stadium, and you can catch the action on FOX (or online via FOXSports.com) with Tim Brawndo Brando (Play-by-Play), Devin Gardner (Analyst), and Josh Sims (Sidelines) on the call.
If you don’t have FOX or can’t access the stream, the game can be heard across the 28-station K-State Sports Network with Wyatt Thompson (play-by-play), former K-State quarterback Stan Weber (analyst), and Matt Walters (sidelines) calling the action. The game will also be on SiriusXM Satellite Radio Ch. 160 or 199, and available online at K-Statesports.com. Live stats are also available at k-statesports.com, and social media updates (@KStateFB) will also be a part of the coverage.
