List of Kansas State Wildcats bowl games

The Kansas State Wildcats football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the Kansas State University in the Big 12 Conference. Since the establishment of the team in 1896, Kansas State has appeared in 17 bowl games. Included in these games are six combined appearances in the current "New Year's Six" major bowl games (the Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, and Chick-fil-A Bowl), including two Bowl Championship Series (BCS) games and one Bowl Alliance game.

Kansas State's first bowl game was in 1982, when Jim Dickey led them to the first of bowl game in school history. The team was defeated by the Wisconsin Badgers in the 1982 Independence Bowl.

Bowl games
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College Division/Other Bowl Games
As a supplement to the list, the following games were regular season games that some have considered special and may be confused as a bowl. These games are not considered "bowl games" but are included here as a reference.


 * 1992 Coca-Cola Classic vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers (L 38–24)
 * 2000 Eddie Robinson Classic vs. Iowa Hawkeyes (W 27–7)
 * 2003 BCA Classic vs. California Golden Bears (W 42–28)