Big 12 Preview: The Kansas State Wildcats
From a betting persepctive, Kansas State is going to be one of the toughest teams to figure out this season. Last year Kansas State came out of nowhere with their star QB Collin Klein to go 10-3 and 9-3 ATS. They reminded me somewhat of the “rock chalk” Kansas Jayhawks of 2007 that came out of nowhere with a star QB (Todd Reesing) to go 12-1 and 11-1 ATS.
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I really feel like K-State is undervalued this year. With TCU and WVU entering the conference they seem to be getting a lot of love but I can’t help thinking that K-State might just be the second best team in the Big 12. That is unless Colin Klein gets hurt and then they will finish right above Kansas.
I do think WVU and TCU are a little overrated coming into this conference. Neither has faced these kinds of offenses on a week to week basis, and could be in for a bit of a shock. As for KSU, it all depends on those JUCO’s and how fast their 3 new OL can adjust to divison 1 football. The defense may also have to adjust to a new defensive coordinator. If everything comes together for this team like it did last season, then they could win as many as 10 games. But it’s all about that offensive line and being able to negotiate a little tougher schedule than they had last year. Plus nobody will be overlooking KSU this year. Bill Snyder’s teams have always been the hardest to predict in the summer because of the constant turnover of JUCO personnel. Sometimes they work for him, sometimes they don’t. We won’t know until they actually line up and play. One thing I know for sure is this conference isn’t won with rookie QB’s. So that alone puts KSU in the ballpark to be able to contend.
The reason why we always say, “the Wildcats will be hard to gauge this season . . .” is because we always think there is no way a modern day college football team can win made up mostly of JUCO transfers. This is the age of blue-chip players and sought after recruits. However, we tend to forget that Snyder is not just a great coach, he is a great talent assessor of JUCOs and recruits the players he needs to fill holes in his system. He’s been doing it for YEARS and there is no reason to believe that this season will be any different.
For me, it is hard to see them repeating the same success as last season with all their close wins, but they have ESSENTIALLY the same weapons coming back this year that they had last year. They WILL have another winning season.