This is the first time since 2010 that K-State will open its season with a football game on ESPN. And this is just the second time in school history that the Wildcats will play on foreign soil.

This is the first time since 2010 that K-State will open its season with a football game on ESPN. And this is just the second time in school history that the Wildcats will play on foreign soil.

The game on Aug. 23 will mark the first time the schools have met outside of Manhattan, Kan., or Ames, Iowa, since 2010, when they played in Kansas City, Mo., Kansas State won the game 27-20.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State Nation is headed to The Emerald Isle as the Wildcats will open the 2025 season against Iowa State in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic on Saturday, August 23, 2025, at ...

Tallied his first-career TFL against UCF in his first-career start, a game in which he became K-State’s first true freshman to start at linebacker since Tre Walker in 2010 (Missouri and Colorado), and ...

Thomas was a driving force this offseason in helping K-State football players collectively gain 700 pounds of muscle while maintaining top-end speed as 33 players were clocked at over 21 miles per ...