Head coach Bob Stoops will tell you that Kansas State is the team he least likes to go up against. Not so much because they are a beast in college football – but they are good all the time, the Sooner coach acknowledges – but because of the high amount of respect he has for his former boss and mentor, Bill Snyder.
Stoops worked under Snyder at K-State for seven seasons through the mid-1990s as defensive backs coach and defensive coordinator. Before that, Snyder was an assistant coach at Iowa when Stoops played there as a defensive back.