The Iowa State–Kansas State football rivalry is an American
college football rivalry
A rivalry is the state of two people or groups engaging in a lasting competitive relationship. Rivalry is the "against each other" spirit between two competing sides. The relationship itself may also be called "a rivalry", and each participant ...
between the
Iowa State Cyclones and the
Kansas State Wildcats every year since 1917, making it the among the
longest continuous series in college football history as of 2020, as well as ''the'' single-longest ''never''-interrupted rivalry in college football. Because so many college football rivalries were interrupted by the 2020 Covid pandemic, Iowa State/Kansas State and UCLA/Cal are now the ''only'' two never-interrupted rivalries that still exist in the
Football Bowl Subdivision
The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, is the highest level of college football in the United States. The FBS consists of the largest schools in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As ...
of NCAA Division I college football The October 2016 game marked the 100th straight year the two teams have met.
History
The teams first met in 1917, when both universities were members of the erstwhile
Missouri Valley Conference
The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the third-oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States. The conference's members are primarily located in the midwest.
History
The MVC was established ...
. The match-up continued as an annual conference game through the schools' shift into the
Big 12 Conference. The series has been dominated by long winning streaks for both teams, with each team's longest winning streak at 10 games. While Kansas State has gone 25–7 against the Cyclones since 1989, Iowa State leads the series 52–50–4.
Historically, the game was not considered a major rivalry, but in light of changes in the Big 12 in the late 2000s, the universities pushed to highlight it to generate revenue and interest for their football programs.
They scheduled two neutral-site games at
Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri in 2009 and 2010, which fans and the media dubbed "Farmageddon", a reference to the agricultural roots of these
land-grant universities
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Signed by Abraha ...
.
Game results
See also
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List of NCAA college football rivalry games
*
List of most-played college football series in NCAA Division I
References
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College football rivalries in the United States
Iowa State Cyclones football
Kansas State Wildcats football
Recurring sporting events established in 1917