In October when FOX picked Saturday’s Creighton/Kansas State game to anchor their first non-football Saturday, it looked a lot better on paper. The Jays were ranked 23rd in the preseason Top 25, and K-State was receiving enough votes to be 31st if the poll went that deep. It’s still a really intriguing matchup, though not in the way everyone figured it would be — Creighton is 5-4 and Kansas State is 6-4, with both teams taking care of business against the lower-tier opponents on their schedules and (mostly) losing to the rest.
The Jays are coming off of a humbling 71-50 loss at Nebraska on Sunday, and the wreckage of that defeat has their season at an early crossroads.