Unlike Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian’s trip to Stillwater, which was his first, he has made a previous trip to Manhattan — after Sarkisian picked up football again at El Camino College in California after playing baseball for the USC Trojans for a year, Kansas State Wildcats head coach Bill Snyder hosted Sarkisian on a recruiting visit to the Little Apple.
Sarkisian landed at BYU in 1995 instead, but his path crossed against with Snyder in the Cotton Bowl when the Cougars beat the Wildcats 19-15 as Sarkisian accounted for both touchdowns in throwing for 291 yards and gaining 15 of the team’s 22 first downs through the air.