The Texas Tech football team, with only one loss going into November, will try to stay in contention for berths in the Big 12 championship game and the College Football Playoff .

Next up, Tech (7-1, 4-1 in the Big 12) visits Kansas State (4-4, 3-2) for a game Saturday, Nov. 1, in Manhattan, Kansas. Kickoff is at 2:30 p.m. at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

For more insight into the Wildcats, we posed five questions to Wyatt D. Wheeler , the Kansas State beat writer for the Topeka Capital-Journal.

Kansas State's looked like a different team the past two games — resounding wins over TCU and Kansas — after a disappointing first half of the season. What have been the keys to the turnaround?

Wyatt D. Wheeler: After an idle week that followed its Week 3 loss at Arizona, the Wildcats h

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