Only three points separate the top two teams in this week’s Big 12 power rankings. Utah remained No. 1 for the third consecutive week, receiving eight of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Kansas State, one of the league’s seven unbeaten teams, moved up to No. 2 with six first-place votes and 242 points. The marquee matchup of the weekend will ...
It was one thing for Bill Self and his coaching staff to compare Rakease Passmore to Ochai Agbaji during the recruiting process, as Passmore said in June that they had. It was another for Self to reiterate that assessment after having Passmore on campus for three months. “He’s kind of an Ochai Agbaji-type kid,” Self said in a recent interview with Seth Davis for Bleacher Report. “He will develop into a ...
Kansas offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes said on Tuesday that it is more likely than not that he and co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Jim Zebrowski will switch their physical positions for upcoming games. “We’ve talked about it, and I think we may make that switch," Grimes said. "We haven’t made that decision for sure, but we’ve talked about it. We talked about it even prior to the last game ...
Pushing back against criticism of individual members of the Kansas football team, head coach Lance Leipold on Monday reiterated that the blame for KU’s early losses to Illinois and UNLV should not be attributed to a single person or cause. If anything, he repeated, “put it on me.” Leipold noted that as KU’s offense sputtered in the second half on Friday against UNLV, ending its drives with punts and ...
Marian Washington’s recently released autobiography, “Fierce: My Fight for Nothing Less,” features several key moments at which Washington pauses the narrative of her life to reflect on the process of recounting it. In one early chapter, Washington writes about living on a bus with her family growing up in West Chester, Pennsylvania, then takes a moment to consider the gravity of discussing her ...
Kansas City, Kan. — Even when the Kansas offense struggled on rare occasions in 2022 or 2023, no one could ever accuse the Jayhawks of being one-dimensional. That’s precisely what they became for two drives in the third quarter of Friday night’s loss. KU quarterback Jalon Daniels had just thrown his second interception of the game, and sixth in just over eight quarters of action, when he didn’t see ...