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Bill Snyder has been in this situation before, sort of. Year after year in seasons past the road to the Big 12 Championship has gone through Nebraska in one way or another.

Nebraska and Kansas State used to be the Big 12 North's two Tiffany programs as they combined for every championship game appearance from the division in the first five years of the conference's history.

Nebraska athletic director and former football coach Tom Osborne says he sensed Kansas State coach Bill Snyder missed coaching after his retirement in 2005.

Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh is considered by some to be the best player in the country this season.

Like an important moment in history, Kansas State center Wade Weibert can remember exactly where he was when K-State and Nebraska used to play for division championships on a yearly basis.

Zac Lee's roller coaster ride 4:57 p.m. How has Zac Lee dealt with the benching, the negative criticism and the offense's struggles? Well, it helps to have a dad who's truly been there before.

From here, the Kansas State football team can go in two directions.Beat Nebraska on the road in their season-finale and the Wildcats will travel to Arlington, Texas, to play for the Big 12 championship, and then to some exotic locale to partake in a bowl game.Lose to the Cornhuskers and their season is finished.

In a football season with more write-offs than a tax return, one more seems only fitting.

When Grant Gregory is away from class and off the football field, he spends most of his time reading about sports.He enjoys discovering fun facts about players and coaches from across the country.

Published online 11/10/2009 11:59 PM Close, but not quite there Kansas State is close to winning North, but two losses get it nothing MANHATTAN - Success has its perks and also its pitfalls.

Every Monday, win or lose, Kansas State splits practice, going over the previous game the first half, preparing for the next opponent the second.

Two summers ago, Baylor coach Art Briles peeked inside Pandora's Box. "I probably shouldn't say this publicly," Briles told reporters at Big 12 media days in 2008, "but if people were patient enough offensively to say, 'I'll take three yards every time,' and just wanted to line up and grind the ball out, you could probably have a little bit of ...

When Josh Cherry heard that his coach wanted to speak with him on the flight home following a rough loss at Louisiana-Lafayette earlier this year, he feared the worst.Cherry, a Kansas State junior kicker, had missed two field goals and an extra point in the loss, which was decided by two points, and he had yet to make his first field goal of the ...

The Wildcats did whatever they wanted to on the ground, rushing to a tune of 266 yards with Daniel Thomas leading the way with 185 yards on 24 carries.

Kansas State fans hold of a a oeBeat KUa sign during the Wildcatsa 17-10 win over the Kansas Jayhawks on Saturday.

It might just be the only person who can stop Daniel Thomas is Daniel Thomas. Kansas certainly didn't have an answer for Thomas, Kansas State's junior running back, whose 185 rushing yards led the Wildcats to a 17-10 victory Saturday at Snyder Family Stadium.

Inside the trophy case at the Vanier Football Complex, there lies an empty space -- a void area collecting dust -- three years worth.

To say Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing is struggling is a matter of relativity. "They talk about him having bad ball games," K-State coach Bill Snyder said.

With a loss to Oklahoma still fresh in his mind, Daniel Thomas didn't feel like standing.

I don't know whether to jump on Kansas State's football bandwagon just yet, not with that freight train in Oklahoma rolling straight at the Wildcats for a game Saturday night in Norman.