Seven football players from Kansas State University were honored by College Sports Communicators (CSC) for their outstanding academic performance and were presented with the Academic All-District Performers Award. These players were honored for the contributions they made to the classroom via their participation. An offensive lineman named Cooper Beebe, a quarterback named Will Howard, a linebacker named Austin Moore, a defensive end named Brendan Mott, a tight end named Ben Sinnott, a defensive end named Cody Stufflebean, and a placekicker named Chris Tennant were all honored with this accomplishment.

The honor was bestowed to Beebe, Moore, Mott, and Sinnott for the second time in their individual careers. This was the second time that each of them had received this honor. Having a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or more was a requirement for all of the recipients, and they were all selected for this accolade. A review is now being conducted to determine whether or not those who have been honored as Academic All-District should be included on the CSC Academic All-America ballot.

A recognition of the nation’s greatest student-athletes for their combined accomplishments on the field and in the classroom, the 2023 Academic All-District Football Teams are a result of the joint work of the student-athletes. College Sports Communicators went through the process of selecting these teams. The College Sports Commission (CSC) Academic All-America program is in charge of recognizing football awards at four separate levels: NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and NAIA. These four levels are named after the four main levels of football competition.

The CSC Academic All-America voting is open to those who have been selected as honorees of the Academic All-District program. It is scheduled for January 23, 2024, that the announcement of the first-, second-, and third-team finalists for the Academic All-America accolades will take place.

In the Pop-Tarts Bowl, which will take place on Thursday, 2023 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, the twenty-fiveth-ranked Kansas State Wildcats will face off against the eighteenth-ranked North Carolina State Tar Heels. At 4:45 p.m. Central Time (CT), ESPN will begin broadcasting the game, which will be carried on their network.