The 2023 season's largest margin: Kansas State 45, Southeast Missouri State 0. A 45-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2023 — The Winning Chapter
Kansas State's 2023 season (9-4) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Will HowardQB2,643 passing yards
- Avery JohnsonQB479 passing yards
- DJ GiddensRB1,226 rushing yards
- Treshaun WardRB651 rushing yards
- Ben SinnottTE676 receiving yards
- Phillip Brooks IIIWR589 receiving yards
- Jayce BrownWR437 receiving yards
- Austin MooreLB63 tackles
- Marques SigleS63 tackles
- VJ PayneS57 tackles
- Khalid DukeDE6 sacks
- Nate MatlackDL4 sacks
- Cody StufflebeanDE2 sacks
Season leaders, 2023.
The season's deepest loss: Kansas State 21, Oklahoma State 29. A 8-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Kansas State beat NC State 28-19 in the postseason.
"EMAW"
2023 is a middle chapter for Kansas State — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.