Kansas quarterback Montell Cozart looks to throw against Duke during the second quarter on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2013 at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.

With last Saturday’s 41-3 loss at Duke representing the latest lost opportunity for the Kansas University football team to gain some momentum, KU coach Charlie Weis and the Jayhawks made sure not to lose a chance to move forward on Sunday.

Normally, Sunday and Monday are about looking back, recovering physically and preparing to tackle the game plan for the next opponent on Tuesday. Not this week.

“We started working on the plane on the way back,” Weis said Monday morning on the Big 12 coaches teleconference. “When you lose a game you had high hopes for and the game turned out the way it did, we didn’t wait ’til the plane landed before we were already working.”

The reasons behind the change in KU’s routine had more to do with the team’s mindset than any need to get a leg up on looking at what Central Michigan does and does not do.

Weis said the Jayhawks early Sunday did their usual critical analysis of the Duke game, of which there was plenty of material to use, and then moved on the Chippewas midway through the day.

“Psychologically, if you let the guys leave the building after a loss sulking for the next 48 hours then you really lost 48 hours,” Weis said. “And before we went to practice we got going on Central Michigan and got a jump-start so they walked out of the building worrying about Central Michigan not worrying about Duke.”

One Kansas player got an even bigger headstart than his teammates. And that was sophomore quarterback Montell Cozart, who looked out of sorts and completed just 11-of-27 passes for 89 yards and two interceptions in the lopsided loss to the Blue Devils.

“It was a tough day at the office,” Weis said of Cozart’s outing. “(Sunday) I had one early meeting and that’s who it was with. I brought him in here and said, ‘Look, when you win, the quarterback gets all the credit and when you lose the quarterback gets all the blame.’ I said, ‘You and I are tied at the hip on this one; when we win everyone wants to say, ‘Well, that’s good,’ and when you lose, as a young guy, he needs to understand that everyone’s looking at him. How he reacts is really gonna be critical.”

Weis said Cozart’s bounce-back being under a microscope would not be limited to the Jayhawks’ next game.

“Not just Saturday,” he said. “But today, tomorrow, the next day, every day in practice. That’s true with the players, as well. I feel he’ll bounce back. He needed a little one-on-one TLC because that’s not one of those ones you can wait on, you have to address that one right away.”