Posted on Wed, Nov. 11, 2009

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The Road Up North

The Kansas State football team is one win away from clinching the Big 12 North, but not just any win will do.

For the Wildcats (6-4, 4-2 Big 12) to clinch their first division title since 2003 without help from anyone else, they will need to win at Nebraska (6-3, 3-2) next week in the season finale.

By winning in Lincoln, K-State can finish no worse than 5-3 in conference play and would hold head-to-head tiebreakers with both Nebraska and Colorado (3-6, 2-3). Every other team in the North already has four conference losses.

If the Wildcats beat Missouri this week but lose at Nebraska, they will need help from their rivals to clinch. If K-State finishes 5-3 without winning at Nebraska, the Cornhuskers will need to lose their two other remaining games against Kansas and Colorado to finish conference play 4-4.

K-State could also win the North with a loss at Nebraska if Colorado wins out and all three teams finish in a tie at 5-3. All three teams would then own wins against each other but the Wildcats would have the best divisional record at 4-1.

The Wildcats could win the North without winning another game, but that would take a multi-team tiebreaker with any number of 4-4 teams where anything could happen.

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