Brandon Harold News

On paper, Kansas State finished the football season one game better than it did a year ago under Ron Prince.

Any minute, Bill Snyder's BlackBerry could ring. Another phone call or two, Snyder said, and Kansas State's 2010 recruiting class will be complete.

Missouri wide receiver Danario Alexander, back, celebrates with running back Derrick Washington after Alexander caught a long pass under pressure from Kansas State defensive back Tysyn Hartman to score his second touchdown of the second quarter of an NCAA college football game Saturday in Manhattan.

At 6-4 overall and 4-2 in Big 12 play, Kansas State in some ways is a distant perch from Mizzou entering their game at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Saturday.

A month remains in the regular season, and the ball bounces funny in the Big 12 North every weekend.

The numbers didn't seem so funny at the beginning of the season. But now that Kansas State's defensive line is sacking opposing quarterbacks with some consistency, Coach Bill Snyder can look back and laugh.

Bill Snyder only has Jeffrey Fitzgerald for one season, so the 18th-year coach is making sure he gets everything he can out of him.

Prizell Brown came to Kansas State as a tight end, just like Collin Klein came to K-State as a quarterback.

As news of their first-place standing in the Big 12 North spread throughout the locker room Saturday night, Kansas States football players couldnt help but think of the possibilities.Some talked about going to a bowl game.

The Wildcat offense played nearly flawlessly. K-State rushed for 232 yards and six touchdowns on the ground and the Wildcat quarterbacks combined to complete 14-of-18 passes for 190 yards while never turning the ball over.

KANSAS CITY, Kan . It seems those with interest in Kansas State football are having some trouble wrapping their minds around the game that really wasn't one in Lubbock last weekend.

The hardest part of losing a football game 66-14 can often be moving on. Coaches look back at film and see a mountain of mistakes and players go through the stat sheet and see numbers that can haunt them.

Thanks to TB from Bring on the Cats for doing a little Q & A with DTN. 1. Head coach Bill Snyder inserted Grant Gregory into the starting lineup last week against ISU, what does he bring to the table that's different than Case Coffman? Mostly, he seemed to make better decisions.

Remember, Kansas States football players said they wanted this challenge. Coming into Saturdays game against Texas Tech, the Wildcats sported a defense that was statistically one of the best in the country and an offense that was coming off its most promising game of the season.Going up against a respected Big 12 South team, this was their shot at ...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- At some point, as the sleet swirled and the Texas Tech faithful celebrated another touchdown, Brandon Harold had to be thinking, "I came back for this?" The sophomore defensive end played his first snaps of the season in Kansas State's 66-14 loss to Texas Tech.

Alex Hrebec is easily coming off his best two games of the season, but he knows as well as anyone that what he did against Tennessee Tech and Iowa State mean nothing this week.

If you go by the numbers, Kansas State's defense is excelling. Through five games, the Wildcats are averaging 267 yards allowed - only 15 teams nationally have allowed less.

Just imagine where Kansas State's lackluster offense would be without Daniel Thomas right now.

Daniel Calvin tries to look on the bright side. His coach tells him he's part of an improving defensive line that is doing a sufficient job of pressuring the opposing quarterback, and in some ways the senior defensive tackle wants to agree.

Daniel Thomas showed up three minutes early to his team meeting, and the reporters were waiting.