The Kansas football team didn’t have to deviate drastically from its original schedule to complete its revised 10-game calendar. KU announced Friday night that Coastal Carolina will serve as the program’s lone nonconference opponent as the Big 12 continues moving toward playing a condensed season this fall. The Jayhawks’ original 2020 schedule had KU traveling to Conway, S.C., for a road matchup with ...
On a busy Wednesday in the Big 12, University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long spent a portion of his afternoon over at the football team’s indoor practice facility addressing the Jayhawks. Hours after the conference officially announced its plans to try and play fall sports during the COVID-19 pandemic, Long gave the players an update of sorts while his audience sat spread out 10 feet apart and wearing ...
The majority of the Kansas football team’s pandemic-shortened 2020 schedule is set. As the Big 12 moved toward playing games this fall, officially announcing that decision Wednesday morning, the conference finally made its schedule public. The Jayhawks’ first league game will still be at Baylor, but now it won’t come until Sept. 26 — it was originally scheduled to be played Sept. 12, before the ...
It’s been a strange preseason for the Kansas football team to say the least. As recently as Tuesday it remained to be seen whether the Big 12 would try to play this fall. Then came some good news for the Jayhawks that the conference would keep at it, even though the Big Ten and Pac-12 had shut down shop. Even before that there was the uncertainty of the season opener. The Jayhawks were set to kick off Les ...
The Kansas football team has a new season-opening opponent — again. While explaining Wednesday night what the Jayhawks would do with their one nonconference date in September, KU Athletic Director Jeff Long told reporters on a video conference that the football team will kick off its 10-game slate on Sept. 12. And the game won’t be against Southern Illinois. Long said he didn’t want to yet say ...
Though nothing has been finalized on the matter, University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long expects there to be fans in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium when the Jayhawks open their 2020 season on Sept. 12. “That’s just my thought at this point,” Long said during a video conference with reporters on Wednesday night. “It has to be approved by the county.” Just how many tickets would be ...