They're 7-0, ranked 10th (eighth in the BCS standings), heading into Saturday's home game with No. 11 Oklahoma (6-1), which was just upset at home by Texas Tech. The Sooners are two-touchdown favorites. Before last week's 59-21 win at Kansas, the Wildcats had won four straight as underdogs (at Miami, home against Baylor and Missouri and at Texas Tech).
K-State hasn't beaten OU since the 2003 Big 12 title game (35-7), when the Sooners were No. 1. Snyder is 6-10 in the series.
Nobody's suggesting the Wildcats are going to win the national title. Or even get to a BCS bowl. After this they're at No. 3 Oklahoma State (7-0), before hosting No. 16 Texas A & M (5-2). Then they're at 4-2 Texas.
But it is something that one guy can have such an impact twice at one place.
That 2003 title, by the way, remains only the second in program history. The other came in 1934, in what was then the Big 6. That team played Fort Hays State, Manhattan College, Marquette and Washburn.
For the longest time, Snyder's MO was to play nobody out of conference. He finally did a home-and-home with Southern Cal in 2001-02. The last 2 years he did the same with UCLA. And now Miami.
Who says an old dog can't adapt? And continue to get it done.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT
East Carolina's Dominique Davis just set an FBS record by completing 26 straight passes in a game. Which two players had shared the old mark of 23? Hint: One won a national title, the other an NFL title, both in the last 15 years. See Answer man.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
They're not always lasting.
Maryland opened with a narrow home win over Miami, which was missing a bunch of bodies thanks to NCAA issues. The Terps have won once since, against FCS Towson. They just lost by 25 at Florida State, whose other wins came against Louisiana-Monroe, Charleston Southern and Duke.
