The holidays are a good time to reflect on our various blessings. As sports fans, and specifically as Kansas State football fans, we have been more fortunate than most. Our teams win a fair number of games every year, our players conduct themselves as professionally as possible, and there’s been hardly a whiff of scandal out of Manhattan.
But mostly, we’ve been lucky to have an FBS-level program at all. The Idaho Vandals, recent 61-50 winners of the Idaho Potato Bowl over Colorado State, have just played in their last FBS game. Idaho is now the first program to ever drop down from the FBS ranks to the FCS level.