WRITER: Benton Smith

Game day breakdown: KU football at TCU

— Kansas (2-2 overall, 0-1 Big 12) at TCU (2-1) • 11 a.m. kickoff, Amon G. Carter Stadium • Game-time forecast: 83 degrees, partly sunny, 3% chance of rain • TV: FOX Sports 1 • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 — Log on to KUsports.com for our live coverage and follow our team on Twitter: @KUSports, @BentonASmith, @mctait and @SJacksonLJW Keys for Kansas 1. Consistently longer drives The Kansas ...

Jayhawks: Offense in far better place than it was in 2017 debacle at TCU

With 40 career starts already on his resume, Kansas senior offensive lineman Hakeem Adeniji typically can remember at least some detail about every college football game in which he has appeared. Close to two years removed from a nightmarish trip to TCU in 2017, Adeniji cringed when asked what he recalled about that one. “I don’t think about that night,” the senior left tackle told reporters earlier this ...

KU defensive players convinced takeaway drought won't last

Four games into the season, senior safety Jeremiah McCullough is one of two players on the entire Kansas football roster who has recorded an interception. But, as fellow safety Mike Lee doesn’t mind reminding McCullough, he could have more. “No, it’s not in the past, because as a unit we’re still trying to be better,” said McCullough, who couldn’t haul in a pair of potential interceptions at Boston ...

Les Miles wants Pooka Williams touching the ball as often as possible

When Les Miles lamented his Kansas football team’s inability to keep up with West Virginia in time of possession following a narrow home loss, there was a specific subgripe at the crux of his concern. The Jayhawks spent such comparatively little time on offense (22:19 compared to WVU’s 37:41) that star running back Pooka Williams didn’t get to touch the ball enough. With 15 carries for 76 yards and two ...

Big 12 Newcomer of Week Andrew Parchment: 'More in store' for Jayhawks

More than 10 minutes into the third quarter against West Virginia, Kansas football receiver Andrew Parchment finally got the route he had hoped for — and asked for — all afternoon. Parchment had worked on a specific post route toward the middle of the field all week during practices. The junior receiver, who hadn’t contributed a catch for the Jayhawks’ offense up to that point of the Big 12 opener, made ...

Notebook: Who's KU's No. 2 QB? Les Miles won't say

If Les Miles has a specific No. 2 quarterback on his depth chart — and if that player is his oldest son, Manny Miles — the Kansas football coach is keeping that information within the walls of the team’s facility. When Carter Stanley’s helmet came off on a play in the third quarter last weekend against West Virginia, the Jayhawks’ starting QB, by rule, had to leave the field for one snap. When that ...