Bring On The Cats, a Kansas State Wildcats community

Former K-State consensus All-American Mark Simoneau will become just the second Wildcat football player and first under head coach Bill Snyder to earn college football's most prestigious honor as the former linebacker was announced today as part of the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame induction class of 2012.

Following a 39-14 win over Texas and securing bowl eligibility for the first time since the 2006 season, Kansas State checked in at No. 24 in this week's Bowl Championship Series standings released Sunday by the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame. The Wildcats' average in the computer polls was No. 20 this week, boosting K-State into the BCS standings.

Following a 5-1 start to the 2010 campaign, Kansas State checked in at No. 22 in the season's first Bowl Championship Series standings released Sunday by the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame. The BCS ratings are calculated by averaging the percentage totals of the Harris Interactive Poll, USA Today Coaches Poll and computer rankings. K-State, which has collected non-conference wins over UCLA and UCF to go along with its 2-1 Big 12 record, checked in at No. 27 in this week's USA Today and AP polls, ranked 25th in the Harris Poll, and was ranked 19th according to the computer ratings.