On the heels of its eighth-straight win over in-state rival Kansas – a game in which Hall of Fame head coach Bill Snyder picked up his 200th career win – K-State wraps up the 2016 regular season on the road when it travels to TCU on Saturday. The contest will kick off 11 a.m., and be televised to a national audience on FS1 with Aaron Goldsmith (play-by-play) and Ben Leber (analyst) calling the action. The contest can also be heard across the K-State Sports Network with Wyatt Thompson (play-by-play), Stan Weber (analyst) and Matt Walters (sidelines) on the call, as well as Sirius channel 136, XM channel 199. Live stats are available at k-statesports.com, while Twitter updates (@ kstate_gameday, @KStateFB) will all be a part of the coverage.

A LOOK AT K-STATE
• Continuing to rank among the league’s best when it comes to rushing offense and run defense, K-State has carded 924 rushing yards and 14 TDs on the ground in the last three games and has averaged 281 yards per game rushing over its last five contests with 19 rushing TDs.
• The Cats have recorded five-straight league games with 200 or more rushing yards, their longest streak since 2003.
• Due to its stout rushing attack, K-State has had 33 of its 54 scoring drives this season span seven plays or longer, including 16 that lasted at least 10 plays.
• K-State’s rushing attack is led by quarterback Jesse Ertz, who ranks first in the Big 12 among QBs with 70.5 yards per game, including two 100-yard games.
• Redshirt freshman running back Alex Barnes set a K-State freshman record with four rushing TDs at Baylor and has recorded two straight 100-yard games with 129 yards at Baylor and 103 against Kansas.
• K-State continues to highly on defense, leading the Big 12 and ranking 10th nationally in rushing defense (109.9 ypg), while also leading the league in total defense (391.5 ypg).
• Junior Elijah Lee leads the team and ranks third in the Big 12 with 90 tackles. Jordan Willis is tops in the league in sacks (10.5) and second in TFLs (15.0), while D.J Reed has a Big 12-best 18 passes defended.

A LOOK AT TCU
• TCU is coming off a big 31-9 win at Texas in which it became bowl eligible.
• Running back Kyle Hicks leads the Horned Frogs in both rushing and receiving with 894 yards and 12 scores on the ground and 40 catches for 394 yards and two more TDs.
• Defensively, Travin Howard and Ty Summers rank first and second in the Big 12 with 119 and 105 tackles, respectively, while Josh Carraway leads the squad in sacks with 8.0.

A LOOK AT THE SERIES
• TCU leads the all-time series, 5-4, and has won the past two meetings.
• Kansas State won the first two matchups (2012, 2013) when TCU joined the Big 12.
• K-State is 1-3 all-time in Fort Worth with the lone win coming in 2012, a 23-10 triumph that propelled the Cats to a No. 1 BCS ranking the following week.

BIG 12 FINISH
• K-State is guaranteed at least a share of fourth place in the final Big 12 standings and can secure sole possession of fourth with a win this weekend.
• The Wildcats were picked to finish eighth in the preseason poll and have finished fifth or better in the Big 12 in five of the six years since the round robin schedule was created in 2011.

THE 200 CLUB
• With K-State’s 34-19 win over Kansas last Saturday, head coach Bill Snyder became the 26th FBS coach all-time with 200 career victories, including the second this year (Nick Saban).
• However, Snyder is just the sixth coach to reach the 200-win mark and coach at only one school in his career.

THE CENTURY MARK
• Earlier this year, K-State became the third Big 12 program to reach 100 league wins since the conference began in 1996. The Cats, who have 104 wins, are joined by Oklahoma (128) and Texas (118) in the century club.

SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS
• Kansas State is in rare company in college football as the Wildcats rank in the top 20 in wins among FBS programs over the last 21-plus seasons.
• Since 1995, K-State has picked up 181 victories, which ranks 19th in the nation.
• Among current Big 12 teams, only Oklahoma (5th; 205), Texas (13th; 196) and TCU (15th; 185) rank higher.

SNYDER IN ELITE COMPANY
• Head coach Bill Snyder currently has 200 career victories, 161 more than any other coach in school history.
• Snyder ranks first in the FBS in wins among active coaches at current schools, second in total wins among active coaches overall and 26th in all-time wins.
• Snyder, who has 117 conference wins, is one of four coaches with 100 Big 8/12 victories (Tom Osborne [153], Bob Stoops [117], Barry Switzer [100]).

TURNOVER TURNAROUND
• A year after finishing minus-3 in the turnover battle, K-State currently ranks 11th nationally and first in the Big 12 with a plus-9 turnover margin.
• The Wildcats have given up only 10 turnovers to rank seventh nationally and tops in the conference.
• In 2015, K-State was minus-3 in the turnover margin through 10 games.
• More significantly, K-State has only allowed 14 points of its turnovers, 30 less than the next best Big 12 team.

CLEAN IT UP
• K-State led the Big 12 and ranked 16th nationally last year with only 39.3 penalty yards per game, while the Cats were second in the league with 4.38 penalties per game.
• The Wildcats, who have ranked first or second in the conference in fewest penalty yards per game each of the previous five years, are on their way to accomplish that feat again in 2016.
• Although K-State ranked 104th in the nation and sixth in the Big 12 with 74.5 penalty yards per game following its FAU contest on Sept. 17, the Wildcats are now second in the league with a 51.7-yard average.

FILLING UP THE BILL
• Attendance at K-State games have been at an all-time high over the last five years as K-State has recorded 33-straight sellouts following the regular-season finale against KU.
• K-State, which has finished second in the nation in percentage of capacity filled over the last three years, currently rank fourth (103.84-percent).
• K-State averaged a school-record 53,100 fans in its 50,000-seat stadium in 2015, a number that has increased each of the last four seasons.
• Twenty-one of the largest 25 crowds in stadium history have come since 2013.

YOUTH IS SERVED
• Through the first 11 games of 2016, Kansas State has a combined 116 starts from freshmen or sophomores, which are the most under head coach Bill Snyder. The previous high was 101 in 1989, Snyder’s first season at the helm.
• A majority of the starts this year are by sophomores (81), while 35 starts have come from redshirt freshmen.
• K-State started 11 underclassmen – including four redshirt freshmen – in the opener at Stanford. It was the most for either category since at least 1997 as K-State had no more than two freshmen starters in a season opener in any of the previous 18 years.

ROAD SCORING STREAK
• Winston Dimel’s second-quarter touchdown at Baylor extended K-State’s consecutive road scoring streak to 93 true road games and 115 road/neutral site games.
• The last time the Wildcats have not scored in a road or neutral-site game was in 1996 at Colorado.

DRAWING FIRST BLOOD
• Since 1990, K-State is 159-31 (.837) when scoring first.
• However, K-State is 4-2 this year when scoring first and just 7-4 in that department over the last two seasons.
• In 2014, the Cats held a perfect 7-0 record when scoring the game’s first points.

QUICK OUT OF THE GATE
• Kansas State has started games on the right side of the scoreboard this season, outscoring opponents 85-44 in the opening 15 minutes.
• That mark improves to 215-117 through the first half and 287-157 after three quarters, but opponents have gotten the best of K-State in the final quarter to the tune of 99-69.

LEADING AT THE HALF
• Kansas State had a 49-game game winning streak when leading a halftime snapped in 2015 at Oklahoma State, a streak that was the nation’s longest at the time.
• Since that loss at OSU last year, the Wildcats are 7-3 when leading at halftime but only 5-3 in Big 12 games. This year, K-State is 6-1 when taking a lead into the locker room with its only blemish being a loss at West Virginia.

SECOND-HALF SURGE
• Kansas State, down 14-7 to Baylor at halftime, scored 35 second-half points to rally for a 42-21 win.
• It marked the first time under Bill Snyder that K-State scored 35 points in the final 30 minutes in a road game. The last time the Cats scored 35 second-half points overall was at home in the 2012 Big 12-clinching win over Texas.
• The comeback win also marked the first time since the 2014 Iowa State game that K-State won on the road when trailing at halftime.