1998 Kansas State Wildcats football team

The 1998 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head football coach was Bill Snyder. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium. 1998 saw the Wildcats finish with a record of 11–2, and an 8–0 record in Big 12 Conference play. The season ended with a loss to Purdue in the 1998 Alamo Bowl.

The Wildcats finished the regular season undefeated (11-0). After the Wildcats' loss to #10 Texas A&M in the 1998 Big 12 Championship Game, the team dropped out of contention for the National Championship game.

After the Big 12 Championship Game, Kansas State was ranked #3, but the team was not invited to any of the BCS Bowl Games. Instead Kansas State was invited to the Alamo Bowl, where it lost to the unranked Purdue Boilermakers, who drove 80 yards for a touchdown in the final minute to defeat Kansas State 37-34.

Following the end of the season, a new rule was created. Nicknamed the "Kansas State Rule", the #3 ranked team would always have an automatic bid to a BCS bowl game.

The Wildcats finished the season as the top scoring team in NCAA Division I-A (at 48 points per game), and set a school record for points scored with 610.

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