Notebook

Missouri finished with negative-six yards rushing. The KU record is minus-56 yards against Kansas State in 1992. …
Senior wide receiver Brandon Rideau bowed out with eight receptions for 100 yards and a TD. …
Trailing 28-14 midway through the fourth quarter, Missouri had a 42-yard TD pass from QB Brad Smith to RB Damien Nash wiped out by a holding penalty against TE Martin Rucker. …
Mizzou’s Adam Crossett was showered with boos after he was short on a 46-field goal attempt just before halftime. MU had driven to the Kansas 12-yard-line, but David McMillan sacked QB Brad Smith for a 16-yard loss, leading to the FG attempt. McMillan was credited with three sacks on the day for a loss of 35 yards. Other Jayhawks with sacks were Charlton Keith, Greg Tyree and Tim Allen. …
MU statisticians were stingy awarding tackles. According to the stat sheet, McMillan led the Jayhawks with five stops. The statisticians credited Nick Reid, KU’s leading tackler, with only three. …
Charles Gordon boosted his nation-leading interception total to seven when he picked off Smith with 5:14 remaining and basically iced the win. Gordon also returned seven punts for 87 yards, including a 37-yarder in the fourth quarter. …
Scott Webb was forced to kick the extra point from 30 yards out after the Jayhawks’ third touchdown when snapper Zach Hood was flagged for holding. …
Missouri was the eighth team that failed to score against Kansas in the first quarter. …
Missouri managed just five first downs and 105 yards of offense in the first half. Meanwhile, KU QB Brian Luke completed 14 of 17 passes for 128 yards to fuel a 21-0 halftime bulge. …
Former Kansas head coach Don Fambrough, whose dislike of Missouri is legend, watched from the press box. Fambrough, 82, annually delivers a pep talk to KU players during the week of the MU game. “Say something nice about the offensive line,” Fam said afterward. “They did a great job.” …
John Randle did not, as expected, make the trip. The Jayhawks’ leading rusher (540 yards) suffered an undisclosed injury in last week’s home finale against Texas. However, junior Clark Green filled in admirably with a 118-yard performance, second high of his career. …
The red leggings returned. Kansas players had donned crimson legwear with white socks for the Kansas State, Oklahoma and Iowa State games, but the Jayhawks had been back in basic black the last two weeks. …
Tom Ahlers of Des Moines, Iowa, was the referee assigned by the Big 12 Conference. … Kickoff temperature was 49 degrees under cloudy skies with a 7 mph wind out of the west. … MU officials announced an attendance of 53,480. Capacity is 68,349 . … The non-televised contest consumed three hours and two minutes.