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November 19, 2008

Techsters stand alone

Kansas is bowl-eligible, but only one of the Jayhawks’ six victories has come against a team with a winning record. Louisiana Tech, a team KU blanked, 29-0, in the second week of the season, is 6-4. Sam Houston State and Florida International are both 4-5, Colorado is 5-6, Kansas State 4-7 and Iowa State 2-9.

Bulls in free fall

Remember when South Florida edged Kansas, 37-34, in the third week of the season and appeared on its way to becoming BCS material? That was then. Now the Bulls are tanking. Saturday’s 49-16 loss to Rutgers was their third straight defeat and fourth in the last five games.

Hunter on mend

Oklahoma State tailback Kendall Hunter, who leads the Big 12 in rushing but has been flying mostly under the radar because of the league’s plethora of talented quarterbacks, had to come out of Saturday’s 30-13 victory over Colorado because of a leg injury and probably will be listed as day-to-day going into the Nov. 29 game against Oklahoma.

KU comparison

Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy, compared his resurgent team to Kansas’ surprising 12-1 season of a year ago.

“Coach (Mark) Mangino said last year, there is a lot of hard work that goes into a successful season, reaching expectations that some people think that you can’t get to. There really is,” Gundy said.

Ganz tops ’em all

Nebraska has boasted many talented quarterbacks over the years — Jerry Tagge, Turner Gill and 2001 Heisman Trophy winner Eric Crouch, to name a few — but current QB Joe Ganz is already the school’s all-time single-season total-offense leader with at least one game left.

Coffman ready to go

Missouri’s last two victories have come with standout receiver Chase Coffman on the sidelines due to a turf-toe injury, but Coffman, who earlier this season broke the NCAA record for catches by a tight end, has been pronounced fit to play against Kansas on Nov. 29.

Pawelek the pluckster

Baylor linebacker Joe Pawelek intercepted a pass in the end zone for the third time this season in the Bears’ 41-21 victory against Texas A&M. In all, Pawelek has six pass thefts, the most of any linebacker in the Bowl Subdivision.

Greenish Cyclones

Iowa State coach Gene Chizik is using 17 freshmen and sophomores on a regular basis, which will make it all that more difficult for the Cyclones to snap their 16-game road losing streak in the battle of Big 12 North tail-enders Saturday at Kansas State.

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19 November 2008
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Danimal (Anonymous) says…

Anyone that says that KU football has been anything but a profound and epic failure this season is a complete idiot. I can't believe we're probably going to go 6-6, I thought that we would at least be 7-5. At least we have another shot at a decent season with Reesing at the helm before our return to annual mediocrity.
19 November 2008
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jocknavals (Anonymous) says…

KU hasn't been annually mediocre. They have been traditionally bad, with cyclical spurts of good. Mangino has raised them to the level of annual mediocrity with occassional spurts of greatness. This is no easy task. He and his players should be commended for what they have done. There isn't room at the top for everybody all the time. People need to chill. Go to the games. Enjoy them.Applaud the players and coaches
19 November 2008
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edjayhawk (Anonymous) says…

Gee Chuck, maybe we should pass up on a bowl invitation…