After two weeks of league play, only one Big 12 Conference football team — top-ranked Oklahoma — has won a league road game.

Baylor isn’t the team most likely to reverse that trend Saturday when the Bears play Kansas University at Memorial Stadium.

“I’ve lost a lot of sleep trying to figure out what the problem is,” first-year BU coach Guy Morriss said Monday during the Big 12 coaches’ teleconference.

After opening the season with a home loss to Alabama-Birmingham and a road loss at North Texas, Baylor reeled off three straight home victories against SMU, Sam Houston State and Colorado.

But after scoring 42 points against CU in their league opener, the Bears (3-3 overall, 1-1 Big 12) suffered their 30th straight conference road loss in a 73-10 blowout Saturday at Texas A&M.

Baylor hasn’t won a league game on the road since leaving the Southwest Conference after the 1995 season and is 5-53 overall in Big 12 play.

“This is a team that has a very fragile state of mind because of what they’ve gone through,” Morriss said. “Things went bad for us early, and we didn’t overcome that adversity.”

A&M rolled to a 38-10 halftime lead, and the Bears didn’t put up much of a fight in the second half. Four of the Aggies’ five second-half touchdowns were scored on plays of more than 40 yards.

Baylor had knocked off two-time Big 12 North champ Colorado a week earlier by taking advantage of five CU turnovers.

“The thing that happened in the Colorado game was that everything went our way,” Morriss said. “Last Saturday everything went against us, and we couldn’t get it stopped. Next thing you know, it’s out of control. We didn’t play very hard. We didn’t play with as much intensity and emotion as we needed to.”

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KU (4-2, 1-1) will be favored for the first time this season against a Division I-A opponent. Baylor was a 191/2-point underdog Monday.

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Crowded at the top: Kansas is tied for the Big 12 North lead with Nebraska (5-1, 1-1), Missouri (5-1, 1-1) and Colorado (3-3, 1-1) and is ahead of K-State (4-3, 0-2) and Iowa State (2-4, 0-2).

It’s possible the North champion could have multiple losses in league play. Nebraska still must face Texas (4-2, 1-1) Nov. 1 in Austin, Texas, and Missouri plays South leaders Oklahoma (6-0, 2-0) and Texas Tech (5-1, 2-0) in the next two weeks. After playing Kansas State this weekend, Colorado plays OU and Tech in consecutive weeks. If Kansas State stops CU, the Wildcats might have the most favorable schedule down the stretch with games against Kansas, Baylor and Iowa State before closing out with Nebraska and Missouri.

“The North looks like it is up in the air,” said KU coach Mark Mangino, whose team has remaining road games at KSU, OSU and Texas A&M (3-3, 1-1) in addition to home games against Nebraska and Iowa State. “It looks like anybody could win this thing. It is the wildest scenario that I have seen in the North since I have been associated with the conference. For us, we are not good enough to plan down the road. We have to look at our next opponent. Who knows what is going to happen here? It is pretty interesting scenario.”

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Kicking comments: Mangino took the red-shirt off freshman long snapper Zack Hood last week to help KU’s kicking game. The coach said he had not ruled out doing the same thing with freshman kicker Scott Webb.

Junior Johnny Beck made two of three field-goal attempts in the loss to Colorado and had an extra-point attempt blocked.

“Johnny kicked the ball well most of the time,” Mangino said. “He did top the ball on the extra point. I can’t tell you we are ready to yank him, but we will continue to have competition at that position. If there comes a time that we need to use Scott Webb, then we will do that. We will do what we have to do. We do not play for the future. The future is important at Kansas, but we play for each game one at a time.”

Beck has made six of 11 fields goals and 25 of 28 extra points.

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Sunflower showdown set: Kickoff for the Kansas-Kansas State game will be 1:10 p.m. Oct. 25 in Manhattan. The game will not be televised.