K-State faces the Texas A&M Aggies tonight in the Texas Bowl at NRG Stadium in Houston. It’s K-State’s seventh straight bowl game. In the modern era of college football, that’s not a significant achievement. But even by today’s standards, K-State would only have attended four bowl games between the end of World War II and 1989.
Texas A&M is a familiar face from the pre-Realignment Big 12. The Aggies moved to the SEC in 2012 and promptly rode the Johnny Manziel wave to brief national notoriety. In five seasons since leaving the Big 12, the Aggies are a respectable 44-20.