Not only is Saturday’s game the last of the regular season for Kansas State but it’s against in-state rival Kansas.

The game is scheduled for an 11 a.m. kickoff in Lawrence, and will be the 111th match up between the two schools dating back to 1902. KU leads the all time series 64-41-5, however, the Wildcats have won four straight and are 16-4 in the series since 1993. In the last four ball games K-State has outscored KU 191-54. The closest game was in 2009, Snyder’s first year back from retirement, when the Wildcats beat KU 17-10 for the first time in three years.

KU comes into the game 3-8 on the season and 1-7 in Big XII play, winning two of their non-conference games early in the season and then snapping a six game losing streak against West Virginia two weeks ago which was also the Jayhawks first conference win in 27 games.

Bill Snyder commented on the improvement he has noticed the Jayhawks make week to week despite their record,” You can take any ballgame that they have played and at some point in the ballgame they are in the ballgame. It doesn’t make any difference, whether it was TCU, Texas Tech, University of Texas, and the only exception might have been Iowa State.”

On KU’s Offense, Snyder said that they have an extremely talented running back, senior halfback James Sims, who averages just over 93 yards per game.

“I think they are very assignment sound as far as their offensive line is concerned. By and large, their schemes are rather consistent with their offensive line. The offensive line has a limited number of schemes and consequently the execution becomes better and better, and that is what you have seen over the course of the year.”

K-State struggled last Saturday against Oklahoma running the ball, only managing 24 yards on 22 attempts. Snyder said Tuesday that the struggle to run the ball was a combination of things.” Some of it I wouldn’t address and some of it just in regards to not being able to execute some of our assignments – not a great deal of assignment errors – but just not being able to finish plays and finish blocks.”

The Wildcats did throw the ball though for 348 yards which had a little bit of impact on the running game Snyder added.

Snyder said that his message to the team Monday for the week was to improve on the mistakes from the Oklahoma game and sustain that throughout the week.

“As far as the University of Kansas ballgame is concerned, even though it is a team that is 1-7 in the conference, they have the capacity to be an extremely fine football team.”