Kansas football notebook

¢ Freshman Ian Wolfe started at right tackle on Saturday, while Cesar Rodriguez was on the left side in place of Anthony Collins. After the first drive, Rodriguez moved back over to right tackle and Collins came back in at left tackle.

“I held him for disciplinary reasons,” KU coach Mark Mangino said of Collins, an All-Big 12 candidate.

¢ The Vegas line on Saturday’s game moved in rare fashion during the course of the week. Kansas started on Sunday night as a 211â2-point favorite, but by kickoff Saturday some sportsbooks had Kansas as a 281â2-point favorite.

A seven-point movement is almost unheard of and is influenced by the action of bettors – in this case, heavy betting for the Jayhawks. Most lines don’t move more than one or two points during the six days a game is on the board.

Of course, KU’s 32-point victory meant Kansas bettors were winners Saturday.

¢ Right guard Chet Hartley left the game in the first quarter with an apparent injury to his left leg. Freshman Carl Wilson took his place for part of the second drive, then gave way to Hartley after about a dozen plays. Mangino went out of his way to praise Wilson on his way out of the game.

¢ Kicker Scott Webb booted his first five kickoffs into the end zone. Three of the five were touchbacks, with the other two run out by the Rockets.

Webb did miss his first field goal of the season, a 45-yard attempt that was wide right.

¢ Saturday’s action wrapped up a four-game round robin of sorts between Kansas, Toledo, Central Michigan and Purdue in the first three weeks of the season.

To wrap it up: Kansas beat CMU, 52-7, on Sept. 1. Purdue beat Toledo, 52-24, on Sept. 1. CMU beat Toledo, 52-31, on Sept. 8. Purdue beat CMU, 45-22, on Saturday. And Kansas, of course, socked Toledo 45-13 on Saturday.

The only game left between the four is a Kansas-Purdue matchup, which won’t happen unless the two meet in a bowl game in December.

¢ Aqib Talib, a full-time cornerback, has six career receptions as a wide receiver. Four have gone for touchdowns, including a 58-yard bomb from Todd Reesing on Saturday. Talib also had a four-yard reception in the flat against Toledo.

¢ Sophomore Jake Sharp received significantly more repetitions than Brandon McAnderson on Saturday and capitalized by rushing 13 times for 127 yards. McAnderson still did fine, carrying the ball 12 times for 52 yards and two touchdowns.

“There were some plays against their defensive front that we thought were plays that Jake would hit them quick, get into the second and third level pretty quick,” Mangino said. “That’s the way it played out.”

¢ Toledo, with no sacks in its first two games, had four on Saturday.

“We got a ton of pressure in the first half,” Mangino said. “That’s two weeks in a row we played a team with a lot of pressure.”

¢ Kansas had 557 yards of total offense on Saturday, the most it has amassed since getting 586 in overtime against with Colorado in 2003.

¢ Wide receiver Marcus Henry had seven catches for 133 yards, including a 42-yard touchdown. It’s the third straight game with 100-plus receiving yards for Henry, matching a KU record shared with Isaac Byrd (1996), Willie Vaughn (1998) and Bob Johnson (1983).

¢ Saturday’s game wraps up a two-for-one contract Kansas signed with Toledo in 2004. The Jayhawks won the first game in ’04, 63-14 and lost the second one in ’06, 37-31 in double overtime, before taking the rubber match.

¢ Estimated attendance was 48,112, though many left early because of the chilly weather and lopsided score.

¢ Clete Blakeman was referee in charge of the seven-man crew out of the Big 12 Conference.

¢ Temperature was 56 degrees at game time under cloudy skies. The wind was blowing out of the southeast at 9 mph.