Waco, Texas — Embracing the safe, logical path of predicting the favorite to defeat the visitor in Saturday’s 2:30 p.m. kickoff at McLane Stadium easily can be defended. For one thing, one of the loudest unwritten rules of predicting sporting contests advises to never pick against a long streak. Well, Baylor has won the past eight games of the series and Kansas hasn’t won a Big 12 road game since 2008. In ...
Since sports gambling eventually will make its way to Kansas, I’m going to try my hand and picking three college football games vs. the spread for the rest of the Fridays throughout the season. I’ll track my record to see whether I should make actual wagers once gambling comes to Kansas. Friday forecasts for Saturday games, listed in order of my confidence in the picks, using odds that appear on ...
Counting sacks as negative rushing yards qualifies as one of the sillier statistical practices of college football. So, for the purpose of this exercise, let’s count sack yardage against the Kansas passing game, not against the rushing numbers. Given that adaptation, KU is averaging 5.57 yards per rush attempt and 5.15 yards per pass attempt. Not many programs in the country average more yards per run than ...
The Kansas secondary played exceptionally well during the nonconference portion of the schedule. The Jayhawks have allowed 5.1 yards per pass attempt, a figure that ranks them 11th nationally. They have allowed one touchdown pass and have seven interceptions, three returned for touchdowns. You have to do a whole lot right to compile numbers that exceptional against any level of competition. Still, nobody is in ...
Kansas junior defensive end Azur Kamara remembers well the day he registered for his freshman year at Central High in Phoenix, a school known more for basketball than football. The memory is just as clear for Central's head football coach, John Clanton, a nose tackle for Frank Solich’s first four Nebraska teams. “I remember walking in and seeing this tall, skinny kid,” Clanton said. “I thought, ‘Here ...
In the past two weeks, Kansas did what good teams do to weak competition, dominating Central Michigan and Rutgers by a combined score of 86-21. In so doing, KU worked its way high up the national rankings in several statistical categories. KU leads with a turnover margin of plus 12 and no other team has higher than eight. KU is tied for the national lead with — brace yourself — Alabama with three ...