Bowl Games
Kansas State has participated in 15 bowl games, with an overall record of 6–9. The team's first bowl game was the 1982 Independence Bowl, under coach Jim Dickey. The Wildcats lost to the Wisconsin Badgers 14–3 in that contest. The Wildcats did not make another bowl game until 1993, when the team began a streak of eleven straight bowl appearances under coach Bill Snyder that lasted to the 2003 season. This is the 20th-longest bowl streak in college football history.
Kansas State has been invited to two BCS games (the 2004 Fiesta Bowl and the 2013 Fiesta Bowl) and one Bowl Alliance game (a win at the 1997 Fiesta Bowl). The school has also appeared three times in another traditional New Year's Day game, the Cotton Bowl, in 1997, 2001, and in 2012. The Wildcats are 1-2 in Cotton Bowl appearances.
Not included in this tally of bowl games is Kansas State's first "post-season" game, played in 1931 against Wichita State as a fundraiser during the Great Depression. Kansas State won that game 20–6. Also not included is the 1992 "Coca-Cola Bowl" played in Tokyo, Japan, against Nebraska, which was a regular season game.
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