Whack-y pick: MU by 22 over KU

It’s too late, I’m sure, to put the question on the Nov. 5 ballot, yet I’m sure everybody  at least those who care about football  would love to cast a vote on the matter.

I’m talking about bad defenses, and, while obviously a comparison of squashes and pumpkins, I wonder if the populace would vote for the Chiefs or the Jayhawks as having the least capability of stopping opponents.

Kansas City ranks dead last in the 30-team National Football League while Kansas sits at the bottom of the Big 12 Conference.

Numbers-wise, the Chiefs are better, surrendering 441 yards a game to the Jayhawks’ 473.4. Kansas has played eight games and the Chiefs seven. However, if you throw out the Jayhawks’ game against NCAA Div. I-AA Southwest Missouri State, KU is surrendering 498.7 yards per game.

How about points? Again, the Chiefs are dead last in the NFL, allowing points at a 32.9 per game clip. However, the Jayhawks’ foes are scoring 38.4 points a game. That number, too, is a Big 12 bottom-feeder.

On a national scale, KU is not scraping bottom, ranking 109th in total defense and 108th in scoring defense. That’s out of 117 Div. I-A teams.

All of this is, of course, merely food for thought as you try to whip me in the weekly “We Whacked Woodling” contest on the Web at kusports.com.

The good news is that I’ve been a perfect 6-0 for two weeks in a row. Why is that good? Because it’s an obvious anomaly. I have as much of a chance of rolling a 6-0 turkey as the Jaybowl does of installing slot machines.

So go to kusports.com and take a whack at it and hopefully you’ll win a much-coveted T-shirt. Here are this week’s picks:

Colorado 59, Texas Tech 42 Â Tune into this one on Fox Sports Midwest, folks, but allow plenty of time. Game could last four hours. Red Raiders can score, even against CU’s rugged defense, but Tech won’t be able to neutralize Buffs’ ground game.

Kansas State 31, Baylor 0 Â Can K-State hand Bears their third straight shutout defeat? Why not? Baylor hasn’t scored since that 35-32 come-from-behind victory against Kansas three weeks ago.

Texas 38, Iowa State 10 Â Predictable Iowa State tailspin continues in Austin, Texas. Cyclones surfaced at level of their competence in Norman, Okla., last week. And they still must go to Colorado and Kansas State. Even good teams can’t overcome bad schedules.

Texas A&M 27, Nebraska 11  Aggies found a passing game last week at Kansas and they’ll unleash it again  although not quite as effectively  against cascading Cornhuskers, who, like most Big 12 North teams, don’t have the weapons to win on the road.

Missouri 66, Kansas 44 Â Both teams have multi-talented quarterbacks and multi-miserable defenses. The difference will be MU wide receiver Justin Gage. KU has no one like Gage, and no one who can cover him.

Tulsa 31, Texas-El Paso 27 Â Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are idle, so I’m picking the other Sooner State NCAA Div. I-A school to halt the nation’s longest losing streak at 17. UTEP (2-5) steamed Rice, 38-35, last week, but lost its starting quarterback to knee injury. Miners at bottom of NCAA stats heap in scoring defense (47.5).