If you’re following along with all of the preseason college football rankings coming out in the months and weeks before the 2024 season starts you probably have come to the conclusion … that the Big 12 Conference might be up for grabs.
Kansas State grabbed the highest ranking out of Big 12 teams in the Pro Football Focus College Football Power Rankings at No. 22 — one of three teams from the Big 12 in the Top 30 and ahead of No. 24 Arizona and No. 29 Iowa State.
According to PFF, the Wildcats are projected at 6.6 wins and have a 66.9 percent chance of making a bowl game and an 8.9 percent chance of winning the Big 12, which expands to 16 teams in 2024 with the addition of four teams from the Pac-12; Utah, Arizona, Arizona State and Colorado.
Georgia was ranked No. 1 in the PFF power rankings, followed by former Big 12 mainstay Texas at No. 2 and defending national champion Michigan at No. 3.
Kansas State went 9-4 in 2023 and capped the season with a 28-19 win over No. 19 North Carolina State in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. The Wildcats also finished ranked in the final Associated Press Top 25 Poll for the second consecutive season under head coach Chris Klieman, coming in at No. 18.
Kansas State opens the season on Aug. 31 at home against Tennessee-Martin.
Here we are... the edible mascot in the Pop-Tarts Bowl.. pic.twitter.com/0XgKGoXseS
— PJ Green (@ByPJGreen) December 29, 2023
