This weekend, the entire bottom portion of the AP poll was absolutely obliterated. Of the 11 teams ranked 15-25, only three survived their assignments: BYU, Wake Forest, and your beloved Kansas State Wildcats.
That created a lot of vacuum to fill, and even some teams that we didn’t expect to tumble all the way out now find themselves looking up at #25.
For K-State, the upheaval means that a 37-28 win over unranked Texas Tech earned them a five-spot jump from #25 to #20. There is much angst from certain corners of the fanbase, however, as the sheer catastrophe of Kansas entering the poll — for the first time in 13 years — one spot ahead of the Wildcats.