Kansas interim head coach Clint Bowen leads the Jayhawks onto the field to take on West Virginia on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, West Virginia.

It’s rare for a college football program to have two Homecomings in one season, but that’s basically what Kansas University has in store for this weekend.

Two weeks after welcoming Texas to town for the official Homecoming game — which Kansas lost 23-0 and marked the final game of the Charlie Weis era — more than 100 former players are expected to return to campus this weekend to support their former team and interim head coach Clint Bowen.

Former KU offensive lineman Keith Loneker set up the reunion via a private Facebook page specifically for former KU football players. And within 24 hours of sending out his thoughts about getting the gang back together for Bowen’s first home game as interim coach, more than 50 former players had RSVP’d that they would be here.

Many of them are guys that did not or could not come back for the Texas game two weeks ago, but there is some overlap. In all, Loneker said he thought the reunion would include a wide range of former Jayhawks.

“I think we’re gonna be represented very well from guys who just played to some of the oldest and best who ever came through here,” said Loneker, a former teammate of Bowen’s who played at KU from 1989-92.

A good chunk of players expected to show up played during that same time, many of them with Bowen, and some who have not been back to Lawrence since leaving college.

“He’s one of us,” Loneker said. “And we feel connected. That’s one of the big things. You didn’t really feel that way during the past few years. But it’s just like when you go to Iowa State and see (ISU basketball coach Fred) Hoiberg coaching, it just feels right and it’s pretty special.”

Loneker said there were a few surprises in store for Saturday’s 3 p.m. kickoff against Oklahoma State at Memorial Stadium, but added that he wanted to keep them quiet so they would have a greater impact.

In addition to the triple-digit impact of former players helping to fill the stands, Loneker also said several others with ties to the program’s past were planning to attend. Those connections range from secretaries and assistant coaches to friends and family members of current and former players and coaches.

Details were not yet finalized as of Thursday night, but Loneker also said the group would be sporting a unified look of some kind, be it T-Shirts, jerseys, hats or something similar to show their support for the program and their friend.

“Clint’s been here for a couple of rebuilds and we feel like we’ve got a guy who knows how to get it done,” Loneker said. “He’s a young, energetic guy, who can recruit his butt off and who knows that player development is critical because we’re not going to be able to slug it out in recruiting battles for the five-star guys.”