MANHATTAN, Kan. – Just 30 days prior to the 2018 season opener, Kansas State football players reported to the Vanier Family Football Complex for the beginning of fall camp on Thursday.
K-State will conduct approximately 14 practices over the next 17 days before getting in its regular in-season routine when the fall semester begins on Monday, August 20.
Fans can get their first look at the 2018 Wildcats on Saturday, August 11, as K-State hosts its annual Fan Appreciation Day. For details on the event, which begins at 5 p.m., please click here.
The West Stadium Center ticket office will be open during Fan Appreciation Day for fans wishing to purchase season and single-game tickets. Fans in attendance will have the opportunity to purchase a special ticket package that includes a souvenir for the Fan Appreciation Day autograph session as a K-State mini-helmet will be included in the first 100 Wildcat 4 Packs purchased in person beginning at 4 p.m.
Wildcat 4 Packs, which include four reserved tickets, are still available for K-State’s seven home games, which are priced at $85 for UTSA, $99 for South Dakota, $125 for Texas Tech, $149 for Texas, Oklahoma State and Kansas; and $199 for Mississippi State.
Those who are unable to attend Fan Appreciation Day can order tickets online at www.kstatesports.com/tickets, by phone at 1-800-221-CATS or at the main ticket office inside Bramlage Coliseum.
Kansas State will hold its annual Media Day on Monday beginning with a press conference featuring head coach Bill Snyder at 4 p.m. Fan can watch the press conference live, for free, at www.k-statesports.com.
The Wildcats host South Dakota on Saturday, September 1, inside Bill Snyder Family Stadium. The game, which kicks off at 6:10 p.m., will be televised globally on ESPN3. K-State then hosts SEC foe Mississippi State on September 8, at 11 a.m., in a game televised on ESPN, while the Wildcats wrap up non-conference play on September 15, when they host UTSA at 3 p.m., on FSN.
K-State begins Big 12 play on the road for the 18th time in the 23-year history of the Big 12 and the second time in the last three years at West Virginia when the Wildcats travel to Morgantown, West Virginia, on September 22. The Wildcats’ Big 12 home opener comes against Texas on September 29.
Kansas State University, the nation’s first operational land-grant institution and a Carnegie Foundation Tier One university, is recognized as one of the nation’s best colleges with world-class research and academic excellence located in America’s No. 1 College Town (Manhattan, KS).
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RYAN LACKEY
Director of Football and Golf Communications | K-State Athletics