For the second week in a row, Kansas University junior Marnez Ogletree demonstrated late in a lopsided loss exactly what the KU football coaching staff is looking for from its young, overmatched team.

He never quit fighting.

Ogletree, a junior-college transfer from Fullerton College who started Saturday’s 66-7 loss to third-ranked Baylor in place of junior cornerback Brandon Stewart — sidelined because of a groin injury — actually had his best day to date as a Jayhawk.

He broke up a pass early, finished with five tackles — four solo — and never looked intimidated or scared by the high-powered, seemingly unstoppable Baylor offense.

Kansas cornerback Marnez Ogletree (25) tries to drag down Memphis wide receiver Phil Mayhue (89) during the third quarter on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015 at Memorial Stadium.

Instead, Ogletree got right in the face of Baylor wideout Corey Coleman and barked at him as if Ogletree were Aqib Talib.

“I have fun playing football,” Ogletree said. “I don’t have fun losing, but I definitely have fun playing.”

Coleman, of course, got the last laugh. He finished with 108 yards on seven receptions and pushed his nation-leading touchdown total to 13 with a pair of TDs, all in just a couple of quarters.

Didn’t matter. Ogletree kept talking, kept laughing and kept having fun. Coleman didn’t even seem to mind.

“He was definitely talking,” said Ogletree before being asked to share the nature Coleman’s trash talk. “It’s not really PG.”

The 5-foot-10, 190-pound DB’s love for the game showed throughout the day, as well as at the end last week’s loss at Iowa State. Despite both games being far out of reach in the fourth quarter, Ogletree continued to bounce around like the outcome was in question and celebrated pass break-ups like he had just saved the game.

Before Saturday’s start, Ogletree sat out the season opener and made three tackles against Memphis. He added a single tackle in each loss at Rutgers and Iowa State and appears to be improving and getting more comfortable each week.

“I’m a confident person regardless,” he said. “But this definitely helped me get my feet set in, and it’ll help me moving forward against Texas Tech.”

That mentality, which Ogletree said KU coach David Beaty refers to as “the sun will come up tomorrow,” is crucial for this Kansas team, which figures to be a heavy underdog the rest of the way.

After entering Saturday as a whopping 46-point underdog against Baylor, the Jayhawks (0-5 overall, 0-2 Big 12) will open the week as 27-point underdogs against Texas Tech, which will come to Lawrence Saturday for yet another 11 a.m. kickoff at Memorial Stadium.

“As coaches, and as players, we have to be able to shut the scoreboard off, whether you’re up 21 or down 21,” Beaty said. “You’ve got to play the next play. That sounds cliché, but it’s exactly how you do it. You take everything one play at a time.”

Ogletree said that’s what allows him to operate like every play is the biggest play of the game no matter how much time remains or how big of a deficit the Jayhawks are facing.

Asked if the KU locker room had more players like him in that regard, Ogletree did not hesitate to answer.

“We do,” he said. “We’ve just gotta bring it out of ’em.”