http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...ictions-for-the-2017-college-football-season/
"Kansas State will send coach Bill Snyder out on top: I'm doubling down here. I'm all-in on Kansas State winning the Big 12 and Snyder calling it a career after the season. The storybooks demand it.
I'm often wary of so-called dark horse conference titled contenders. They're fun talking points in June when everyone is 0-0, but it's hard to go against Vegas and dark horses are dark horses for a reason. However, we have a brutally awful tendency to overlook K-State, set at 7.5 wins for the season, and the Big 12 race just became more interesting with the sudden retirement of Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops. On top of that, Kansas State was one of the least experienced teams in the FBS a season ago -- 96th, according to Phil Steele -- and still won nine games, including six of their last seven.
Keep in mind, too, that of the four Big 12 teams Vegas predicts will win more games than the Wildcats -- Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor and TCU -- K-State gets three of them at home. With the return of a Big 12 championship game, all K-State needs to do is finish second in the conference standings. From there, it's a one-game season. Snyder, having done all he can do with the greatest turnaround in college football history, will have the perfect time to pass on the proverbial baton."
"Kansas State will send coach Bill Snyder out on top: I'm doubling down here. I'm all-in on Kansas State winning the Big 12 and Snyder calling it a career after the season. The storybooks demand it.
I'm often wary of so-called dark horse conference titled contenders. They're fun talking points in June when everyone is 0-0, but it's hard to go against Vegas and dark horses are dark horses for a reason. However, we have a brutally awful tendency to overlook K-State, set at 7.5 wins for the season, and the Big 12 race just became more interesting with the sudden retirement of Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops. On top of that, Kansas State was one of the least experienced teams in the FBS a season ago -- 96th, according to Phil Steele -- and still won nine games, including six of their last seven.
Keep in mind, too, that of the four Big 12 teams Vegas predicts will win more games than the Wildcats -- Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor and TCU -- K-State gets three of them at home. With the return of a Big 12 championship game, all K-State needs to do is finish second in the conference standings. From there, it's a one-game season. Snyder, having done all he can do with the greatest turnaround in college football history, will have the perfect time to pass on the proverbial baton."
