The days each season immediately before Kansas State plays Oklahoma offer a time, in the rare instance that he allows it, for Bill Snyder to reflect.
The K-State coach, 77 as of last Friday, gauged progress in his formative years as a head coach, in part, by success against the Sooners. He still does, in fact, as the Wildcats visit No. 19 Oklahoma on Saturday (noon ET, ESPN).
But from 1993 to 1997, Kansas State won five straight against Oklahoma. It was unthinkable a few years before that and coincided with the Wildcats' rise under Snyder from conference doormat to powerful program.