Austin, Texas — With the Jayhawks’ return to Austin came obligatory questions for head coaches Lance Leipold and Steve Sarkisian about KU’s stunning upset win at Texas in 2021, the first season for both coaches. Neither was too keen on dwelling on that two-year-old result, though both acknowledged its longer-term impact on the programs’ trajectory. The Longhorns’ sixth-year senior lineman Christian ...
Austin, Texas — For much of Saturday’s game, the Texas offense could do everything but score touchdowns. The Longhorns outgained in time of possession by nearly 20 minutes and total yards by more than 400 but settled for four field goal tries and missed two. That gave the Jayhawks plenty of chances to march toward another memorable upset at Darrell K Royal-Texas Stadium. But playing unexpectedly without its ...
Austin, Texas — Quarterback Jason Bean said he didn't know he was going to start Saturday's game — on the road at the No. 3 team in the country, in front of an announced 102,986 fans — until 30 or 45 minutes before it started. Kansas coach Lance Leipold said he didn't know that starter Jalon Daniels had aggravated his back while warming up at the hotel until the team arrived at the stadium Saturday. ...
Lance Leipold and his Jayhawks weren’t especially interested this week in revisiting their stunning upset win at Texas in 2021, ahead of a rematch that finds both programs in dramatically different spots. Newly ranked No. 24 Kansas has plenty to say, though, about its 55-14 home loss to the Longhorns last November. For those who experienced it, the memory of last year's defeat continues to loom large, ...
Kansas goalkeeper Melania Pasar stopped seven shots and her Baylor counterpart Ashlee Zirkel saved five as the Jayhawks and Bears played to a scoreless draw in Lawrence Thursday night. KU was able to earn a point in its first home Big 12 Conference match of the season following a lengthy road trip, and preserve its unbeaten record at Rock Chalk Park all the while, though the Jayhawks finished the month of ...
After a two-match September sojourn playing home games in Kansas City, Missouri, Sporting Kansas City's developmental club is back in Lawrence for its most important match of the season. SKC II, which went 7-2-3 with a pair of shootout wins during its lengthy stint in Lawrence during the regular season — the second year in a row it has played at Rock Chalk Park — will host Austin FC II there at 7 p.m. ...