Game 1
South Dakota at Kansas State
Date: Saturday, September 5, 2015

Kickoff: 6:10 p.m.

Location: Manhattan, Kan.

Stadium: Bill Snyder Family Stadium (50,000)

Series: K-State leads, 3-0

TV: K-StateHD.TV

Radio: K-State Sports Network; k-statesports.com

SIRIUS Satellite Radio Ch. 109, XM Satellite Radio Ch. 200

Wyatt Thompson (Play-by-Play)

Stan Weber (Analyst)

Matt Walters (Sidelines)

Twitter Updates: @kstatesports and @kstate_gameday

K-STATE KICKS OFF 2015 AGAINST SOUTH DAKOTA
Coming off four-straight seasons of eight or more wins and five-straight bowl berths, Kansas State opens the 2015 season against South Dakota at 6:10 p.m., Saturday at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. The seventh-annual K-State Family Reunion game will be extra special as K-State welcomes four new members into its Ring of Honor. The game will be shown world-wide on K-StateHD.TV and can be heard across the K-State Sports Network with Wyatt Thompson (play-by-play), Stan Weber (analyst) and Matt Walters (sideline) on the call. The game can also be heard on Sirius channel 109, XM channel 200. K-StateHD.TV will go on the air at 5:10 p.m., with K-State Gameday, hosted by Brian Smoller and former K-Stategreats Ian Campbell and Nick Leckey. Live stats are available at the new k-statesports.com, while Twitter updates (@kstatesports and @kstate_gameday) and in-game highlights onfacebook.com/kstatesports will all be a part of the coverage.
A LOOK AT K-STATE

• Guided by 2015 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Bill Snyder, K-State returns 44 letterwinners, including 16 starters, from the 2014 squad that went 9-4 and earned the program’s fifth-straight bowl berth.
• Six of the returning starters earned All-Big 12 honors a year ago, including three on the defensive side of the ball.
• Offensively, K-State will be able to build around four returning starters on the line, but the Wildcats must replace its starting quarterback and pair of 1,000-yard receivers.
• Experience litters the defensive side with six returning starters and three more that made at least two starts in 2014.
• Most of the experience is in the backfield with All-Big 12 safety Dante Barnett and cornerback Danzel McDaniel back along with a 12-game starter in Morgan Burns.
• K-State also brings back its regular placekicker in Matthew McCrane and punter in Nick Walsh.

A LOOK AT SOUTH DAKOTA

• Guided by fourth-year head coach Joe Glenn, the Coyotes are looking to bounce back from a 2-10 season.
• USD was out-scored by an average of 35.6-19.4 in 2014.
• One of USD’s two wins last year was a 28-21 triumph over No. 23 (FCS) Northern Arizona.