K-State is a much better team in a much better conference (that's why it matters GoSooners, you get better by playing against better teams).
Right, but K-State hasn't played any Big 12 teams yet, so they haven't gotten better this season from playing the "scary" teams
And speaking of K-State and playing tough teams, I read this on another forum:
"K-State first to fatten up on cream puffs
Some people will argue that Southern California has been the most influential college football program over the past two decades. Others will chirp for the Miami Hurricanes, Florida State or the flavor of the moment from the crackling Southeastern Conference.
Pick a patsy. Pick two. Stuff your schedule with as many nobodies as possible. If you're good at it, as Kansas State usually is, you can find four slugs from outside your conference.
Dominate the nobodies and then fool everybody by winning those four games as well as a few more inside your conference. Then you can call yourself a bowl team. A good time will be had by all.
That has been the Kansas State way, a formula that has been embraced by everybody who dreams of playing in December or January. Heck, even Louisiana State, the defending national champion, is playing Appalachian State, Troy, North Texas and Tulane as its nonconference opponents this season.
How good is this 2-0 Kansas State team that coach Ron Prince brings to town tonight?
I was afraid you'd ask. The Wildcats' vital signs look terrific. Prince's team ranks in the top 20 in 11 NCAA statistical categories, including total offense (18th, 476 yards per game) and total defense (sixth, 198 yards). K-State quarterback Josh Freeman has been sack-free.
There is every indication that Kansas State is a more complete and powerful team than Louisville, an opinion reflected in the point spread that has the Wildcats favored by four.
Here is the fine print: Kansas State has played the kind of teams that it usually plays in September. That would be a North Texas program that has been outscored by 107 points in its first three games and mighty Montana State, a .500 team in the Big Sky Conference last season.
Maybe Kansas State will contend with Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas in the Big 12 North. Or maybe it will revert to the team that allowed 198 points its final four games in 2007 against legitimate competition.
I don't know. What I do know is this game, a nonconference game against a team from a Bowl Championship Series conference, is a deviation from the Kansas State blueprint.
Snyder took over at Kansas State before the 1989 season. The Wildcats had won three games in four seasons. Something had to change. And the first thing that changed was the schedule.
Snyder played so many Mid-American Conference teams that he was voted the league's Coach of the Year. He did more to publicize Indiana State than Larry Bird, going 3-0 while outscoring the Sycamores 151-28. He kept the athletic directors from Northern Illinois, New Mexico State and Western Kentucky in the first three slots of his speed dial.
In Snyder's 17 seasons at Kansas State, the Wildcats played 62 regular-season nonconference games. Only 10 were scheduled against opponents currently in BCS conferences.
His record against Top 25 opponents was 16-31-1. But Bill Snyder popularized the Kansas State way of scheduling for success. You see it every September in college football."
