Last weekend, Kansas University traveled to Tulsa, Okla., and extended the nation’s longest losing streak with a 43-33 victory against the Golden Hurricane.

“We didn’t want to be the team that ended the streak,” said KU football coach Mark Mangino, whose team handed Tulsa its 15th straight loss.

The Jayhawks (2-3, 0-1 Big 12 Conference) will try to keep another streak going Saturday when they travel to Waco, Texas, for a game against Baylor.

The Bears have lost 30 consecutive Big 12 games.

“We went down to play Tulsa on its home field, and unfortunately, that team has a losing streak that it would not like to have, and we found it to be a very dangerous team,” Mangino said Monday during the league’s teleconference. “Now we’ll play a Baylor team that we think is working hard and fighting to get a conference win. We see Baylor as dangerous, too.”

Baylor (2-2, 0-0) also defeated Tulsa, 37-25, on Sept. 21. The Bears had last week off to prepare for the Jayhawks.

BU hasn’t always been a bottom feeder the Bears posted winning league records in five of their last six seasons in the Southwest Conference

But times have been hard for Baylor since joining the Big 12 in 1996. The Bears posted 1-7 league records in each of the league’s first three seasons.

Since beating KU 31-24 on Oct. 10, 1998 at Waco, Baylor has lost 30 straight conference games and is 3-51 overall in Big 12 play.

“We need to win regardless of who we play,” said Bears coach Kevin Steele, who is 8-29 in his fourth season. “It’s a Big 12 game, so it’s really important in that regard. I don’t think about it a whole lot. It started a long time ago.

“I look at it from the standpoint of, in the course of six years, Baylor has won three Big 12 games. It’s not just breaking the streak. I mean, that’s the start of it. The biggest point is, we need to win games in the Big 12.”

Some might point to Kansas which has beaten only one Division I-A opponent as a golden opportunity to end the skid.

“Any time there’s bulletin-board material around we like to get it up on the board,” said Mangino, whose team is a four-point underdog.

The Jayhawks should be used to playing in hostile environments after playing four of their first six games away from home.

“We want to play well on the road,” Mangino said. “We want to play well against conference foes. We are trying to take steps here in building the program. We just feel it’s an important game for us because it’s another step in the direction we want to go.”

More on the road: KU took a slightly unusual step last week, flying to Tulsa on Saturday morning before a 6 p.m. game instead of traveling a day in advance.

“This was an opportunity to let our players sleep in their own beds, do our Friday evening routine here at home, catch a morning flight to Tulsa, have a little walk-through, some lunch and go over to the stadium and play,” Mangino said. “I think it worked out well. I would only do that if I knew that we could still drive the distance to get there in satisfactory time if there was some problem with air transportation.”