1975_Kansas_State_Wildcats_football_team

1975 Kansas State Wildcats football
1975 Kansas State Wildcats football
Conference	Big Eight Conference
Record	3–8 (0–7 Big 8)
Head coach	Ellis Rainsberger (1st season);
Offensive coordinator	Joe Pendry (1st season)
Defensive coordinator	Dick Selcer (1st season)
Home stadium	KSU Stadium
	Seasons ← 1974 1976 →

1975 Kansas State Wildcats football team

American college football season

The 1975 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. The team's head football coach was Ellis Rainsberger, in his first of three years at the helm of the Wildcats. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium. 1975 saw the wildcats finish with a record of 3–8, and a dismal 0–7 record in Big Eight Conference play.^[1]

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1975 was the first time in school history that the Wildcats were shut out three times in one season; the other time was in 1980. The Wildcats were shut out by Texas A&M, Kansas, Nebraska. They scored just 23 points in 7 conference games, an average of just 3.26 points per game.

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"1975 Kansas State Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 7, 2019.

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"Kansas State rips Wichita State". Pensacola News Journal. September 21, 1975. Retrieved February 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

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"'Cats nip Wake Forest". The Wichita Eagle & Beacon. September 28, 1975. Retrieved January 26, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.

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Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 13	at Tulsa*	Skelly Stadium Tulsa, OK	W 17–16	34,000
September 20	Wichita State*	KSU Stadium Manhattan, KS	W 32–0	31,000	^[2]
September 27	at Wake Forest*	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC	W 17–16	17,700	^[3]
October 4	No. 6 Texas A&M*	KSU Stadium Manhattan, KS	L 0–10	37,100
October 11	Iowa State	KSU Stadium Manhattan, KS (rivalry)	L 7–17	25,698
October 18	No. 2 Oklahoma	KSU Stadium Manhattan, KS	L 3–25	33,196
October 25	at No. 15 Missouri	Faurot Field Columbia, MO	L 3–35	62,860
November 1	at Kansas	Memorial Stadium Lawrence, KS (rivalry)	L 0–28	50,538
November 8	No. 3 Nebraska	KSU Stadium Manhattan, KS (rivalry)	L 0–12	41,300
November 5	at Oklahoma State	Lewis Field Stillwater, OK	L 3–56	40,100
November 22	at No. 9 Colorado	Folsom Field Boulder, CO (rivalry)	L 7–33	44,345
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

1975_Kansas_State_Wildcats_football_team

1975 Kansas State Wildcats football team

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v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 1 Oklahoma +	6	–	1	–	0	11	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Nebraska +	6	–	1	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
No. 16 Colorado	5	–	2	–	0	9	–	3	–	0
Kansas	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	5	–	0
Missouri	3	–	4	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Oklahoma State	3	–	4	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
Iowa State	1	–	6	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Kansas State	0	–	7	–	0	3	–	8	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll