MANHATTAN
The Autozone Liberty Bowl will send a representative to Kansas State’s football game against West Virginia on Saturday.
It will certainly be a game of interest for the Memphis bowl, which matches a Big 12 team against a SEC foe on Jan. 2. The Wildcats and Mountaineers are both teams it will likely have the option to select on Sunday.
But there may already be a frontrunner for the invitation. The way Liberty Bowl executive director Steve Ehrhart talks about K-State, it’s not hard to envision the Wildcats on Beale Street.
“We have been watching and looking at Kansas State closely for many years, even before we began our partnership with the Big 12,” Ehrhart said in a phone interview.