Of course, as Kansas drives west to play at K-State (and maybe, if they're lucky, stop at Olive Garden for dinner), they don't get to play the Wildcats team that lost their first four Big 12 games to drop to 8-7 for the year. The team that dropped a home game to TCU. No, they get a rejuvenated KSU squad that somehow went straight from those four losses to handing Texas Tech their first conference L, and then went on the road to knock off Texas in Austin.
Those last two games have propelled K-State up 16 spots in KenPom's rankings, where they sit at 55th, the first time they've appeared in the top 60 this year.