¢ KU’s next opponent, No. 6 Missouri, beat Kansas State, 49-32, on Saturday to improve to 10-1.

It’s a good bet that many at Memorial Stadium for the Kansas game didn’t know. The Missouri score never was shown on the Memorial Stadium video board during KU’s game Saturday. And it was intentional.

“It’s not something I decided on, but somebody in the operations department of the football program thought it would be appropriate, came to me, and I said I thought it was a good idea,” KU coach Mark Mangino said. “I had a bad experience one time when a score was mentioned during a game.”

That would be in 1998, when undefeated Kansas State lost to Texas A&M in the Big 12 championship after getting excited about seeing UCLA’s loss on the scoreboard. The Bruins’ loss to Miami assured K-State would’ve played for the national championship that year had it beaten Texas A&M. But the Wildcats eventually lost, 36-33, in overtime.

¢ More history – it’s a weekly thing now – was made Saturday. Kansas is 11-0 for the first time in school history and clinched at least a share of the Big 12 North title for the first time ever.

¢ Besides being 11-0 overall, the Jayhawks are 10-0 against the Vegas point spread this season. They entered Saturday’s game as 27-point favorites and won by 38.

According to Phil Steele’s College Football Preview, no team has finished the regular season unbeaten against the spread this decade.

¢ Quarterback Todd Reesing completed 21 of 26 passes for 253 yards and four touchdowns, sitting out the entire fourth quarter with the game in hand.

Even more amazing, Reesing didn’t throw an interception for the sixth straight game. That’s 205 consecutive attempts without throwing an interception.

¢ Reesing has 2,910 passing yards this season, with 30 touchdowns and four interceptions.

¢ KU senior Brandon McAnderson has 1,009 rushing yards this season on 161 carries. He’s is the 10th player in KU history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. Jon Cornish was the last to do it, gaining a school-record 1,457 yards last season.

¢ Kansas honored 13 seniors before the start of Saturday’s game. One was backup offensive lineman Rameses Arceo, who actually is listed as a red-shirt junior on the official roster.

¢ Kansas had two deep men returning punts on Saturday, the first time all year it has elected to do that. Anthony Webb, the normal return man, was joined by senior Jeff Foster. Webb still fielded the punts while Foster served as a blocker.

¢ KU junior Dexton Fields tied a school record with 11 receptions Saturday. He had 109 receiving yards and two touchdowns to lead the team.

¢ Attendance was estimated at 51,050, the second sellout of the season (Nebraska was the other). The Memorial Stadium season average was 46,498 in 2007, a new record.

¢ Temperature was 66 degrees at kickoff under partly cloudy skies, with winds blowing out of the southeast at 5 mph.

¢ KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway, as is his custom, attended Mark Mangino’s postgame news conference.

“We’ve got some great new facilities coming, and we want to be worthy of the new facilities,” Hemenway said with a smile afterward. “It looks to me like we’re going to be.”

Hemenway said he recently was at a meeting of the American Association of Universities and was asked by one of his colleagues: “How does it feel to be the head of a football school?”

“I said, ‘I’m not sure how to act, but I sure am pleased with what’s going on.’ One of my friends says to me, ‘When you score, you get six points instead of two.”’