The Kansas State Wildcats football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the Kansas State University in the Big 12 Conference.
Since the establishment of the team in 1896, Kansas State has played in 25 bowl games.
This total includes seven appearances in the current "New Year's Six" major bowl games (the Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, and Peach Bowl).
Kansas State's first bowl game was in 1982, under coach Jim Dickey.
The team was defeated by the Wisconsin Badgers in the 1982 Independence Bowl.