1970 Kansas State Wildcats football team

The 1970 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.[1] The team's head football coach was Vince Gibson. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium.

1970 Kansas State Wildcats football
ConferenceBig Eight Conference
1970 record6–5 (5–2 Big 8)
Head coach
Home stadiumKSU Stadium
1970 Big Eight Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 1 Nebraska $ 7 0 0  11 0 1
No. 20 Oklahoma 5 2 0  7 4 1
Kansas State 5 2 0  6 5 0
Missouri 3 4 0  5 6 0
Colorado 3 4 0  6 5 0
Kansas 2 5 0  5 6 0
Oklahoma State 2 5 0  4 7 0
Iowa State 1 6 0  5 6 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Senior quarterback Lynn Dickey led the team to a third straight season as the top-rated passing offense in the Big Eight Conference. Kansas State also led the conference in total defense, and posted its first win against a top-ten team, beating #8 Colorado. The Wildcats went into the final conference game of the season against Nebraska ranked #20 and playing for the Big Eight championship. The #4-ranked Cornhuskers throttled Kansas State 51-13 in the game. Kansas State did not return to the national rankings again until the 1993 season.

The team finished with a winning record in conference play for the first time since 1953. After the season Gibson was named coach of the year by the Big Eight.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendance
September 2Utah State*No. 14W 37–035,000
September 19at Kentucky*No. 13L 3–1633,500
September 26at Arizona State*L 13–3550,255
October 3No. 8 Colorado
  • KSU Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS
W 21–2040,200
October 10Kansas
L 15–2141,070
October 17at Iowa StateW 17–026,053
October 24at OklahomaW 19–1460,800
October 31No. 17 Missouri
  • KSU Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS
W 17–1342,000
November 7Oklahoma State
  • KSU Stadium
  • Manhattan, KS
W 28–1538,300
November 14at No. 4 NebraskaNo. 20L 13–5167,894
November 21Florida State*L 7–3123,408
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Roster

1970 Kansas State Wildcats football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
QB 11 Lynn Dickey Sr
RB 23 Mike Montgomery Sr
Defense
Pos.#NameClass
DB 20 Ron Dickerson Jr
DB 26 Clarence Scott Sr
DE 70 Ron Yankowski Sr
Special teams
Pos.#NameClass
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Injured
  • Redshirt

References

  1. "1970 Kansas State Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 7, 2019.


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