Kansas State Wildcats reveal football schedule for Collin Klein’s debut season
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- Big 12 released Kansas State’s 2026 schedule; Collin Klein opens vs Nicholls
- Season begins with 3 nonconference home games, then 5 Big 12 road contests
- Tough October stretch at Arizona State and Colorado; finale at Iowa State
Collin Klein’s debut season as the head football coach at Kansas State will begin with a home game against Nicholls and end with a road game against Iowa State.
The Big 12 announced Kansas State’s football schedule for the 2026 season on Wednesday.
K-State’s upcoming slate of 12 games includes three nonconference home games at the start of the season and then five road games in league play.
The Wildcats will host Nicholls, Washington State, Tulane, Houston, Kansas, Oklahoma State and Arizona at Bill Snyder Family Stadium next season. They will hit the road for games against Cincinnati, Arizona State, Colorado, TCU and Iowa State.
Everything will get started on Sept. 5, when K-State hosts Nicholls in the season opener. The Wildcats will follow that up with two more home games against Washington State and Tulane.
Big 12 will get started on Sept. 26 with a road trip to Cincinnati. The Wildcats will then have their lone idle week of the 2026 season before they return home to play Houston on Oct. 10.
K-State will host Kansas in the Sunflower Showdown on Oct. 17.
The second half of the season will be filled with challenging games for the Wildcats. Back-to-back road games against Arizona State and Colorado could be the hardest stretch of the season in October. After that, K-State will face Oklahoma State at home and then hit the road to TCU. K-State will close out the year against Arizona and play at Iowa State in the regular-season finale.
Farmageddon will return to its usual spot at the end of the schedule after the Cyclones and Wildcats opened the 2025 season by playing each other in Dublin, Ireland.
As of now, all of Kansas State’s football games are scheduled for Saturdays. But the Big 12 and its television partners may choose to shift a game or two to a Thursday or Friday in the coming months.
Kansas State football schedule for 2026
Sept. 5 - Nicholls
Sept. 12 - Washington State
Sept. 19 - Tulane
Sept. 26 - at Cincinnati
Oct. 10 - Houston
Oct. 17 - Kansas
Oct. 24 - at Arizona State
Oct. 31 - at Colorado
Nov. 7 - Oklahoma State
Nov. 14 - at TCU
Nov. 21 - Arizona
Nov. 28 - at Iowa State