Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold didn’t want the Jayhawks’ best showing of the season to date, versus Oklahoma on Oct. 23, to be a “blip.” And he definitely didn’t want KU’s level of play to plunge the very next week after experiencing such an encouraging spike. However, Oklahoma State crushed the Jayhawks, 55-3, in Stillwater, Okla., seven days after KU threatened to upset the Sooners in ...
Stillwater, Okla. — After starting quarterback Jason Bean and the Kansas football offense got flattened in the first half at Oklahoma State on Saturday night, head coach Lance Leipold turned to backup QB Miles Kendrick to open the third quarter. The Jayhawks failed to even pick up a first down the entire first half against the No. 15-ranked Cowboys. But shortly after Kendrick came in, on KU’s first series ...
Stillwater, Okla. — An ill-fated first half of offense for the Kansas football team Saturday night at Oklahoma State swiftly put an end to the Jayhawks’ chances of contending with the Cowboys. No. 15 OSU didn’t need two takeaways to run away from the Jayhawks, but those mistakes sure didn’t help KU at Boone Pickens Stadium, where the Cowboys won a 55-3 drubbing. “That’s a really good, physical, ...
— Kansas (1-6 overall, 0-4 Big 12) at No. 15 Oklahoma State (6-1, 3-1) • 6 p.m. kickoff, Boone Pickens Stadium • Game-time forecast: 66 degrees, sunny, 0% chance of rain • TV: FOX Sports 1 • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 Keys for Kansas 1. Don’t step in that bear — or Cowboy — trap For a long struggling program like Kansas football, competing with — and holding a fourth quarter lead ...
Super-senior Kyron Johnson played linebacker earlier in his Kansas football career, but the defensive end caught Oklahoma off guard when he briefly returned to the position for one of the Jayhawks’ highlight plays this past week. Typically, in KU defensive coordinator Brian Borland’s scheme, Johnson lines up wide so he can rush the quarterback. But on OU’s opening drive, when the Jayhawks had the Sooners ...
In a Kansas football cornerback rotation that features a freshman, a redshirt freshman and a sophomore, graduate transfer Jeremy Webb is the old man in the room. Webb played at ASA College at the junior college level, Virginia Tech in the ACC, and Missouri State in the FCS ranks before finding his way to KU this past summer, via the transfer portal. In the same month of August that Webb arrived in Lawrence, ...