WRITER: Matt Tait

Kansas football team's offense among nation's best through 2 games, but tougher challenges await

Through two weeks of the 2022 college football season, the Kansas Jayhawks are averaging 55.5 points per game. That’s good for first in the entire FBS, a position in which Kansas is certainly not used to being. Get this: Only six teams in the entire NCAA have scored more points than Kansas through two games — FCS schools Arkansas-Pine Bluff (124) and Incarnate Word (119); Division II schools Virginia ...

What to make of Kansas football coach Lance Leipold's name surfacing in connection with the now-open Nebraska job

Long before Nebraska fired head coach and former favorite son Scott Frost as its football coach on Sunday, there were whispers about Kansas coach Lance Leipold potentially becoming a candidate there if the Huskers’ job came open. Now that Frost is out, those whispers have reached a fully audible level. Mere minutes after the news broke that Frost was out, multiple national college football writers included ...

Matt Tait: Outlook for Kansas football season gets a lot prettier with wild OT win in Morgantown

The path to an improbable 3-0 start to the season for the Kansas football team became truly realistic thanks to a 55-42 overtime road win at West Virginia on Saturday night. And if you want to get even more carried away, if you squint just a little, you might be able to see 4-0. What? Yeah. That just happened. After falling behind 14-0 and looking pretty uninspired while doing it, the Jayhawks (2-0) came ...

Can Kansas' running game keep the Jayhawks competitive as the opponents get tougher?

With Big 12 Conference play starting this weekend and the Kansas football team likely to be an underdog in nearly all of its remaining games, it’s time to shift the focus to what the Jayhawks can do to stay in games and compete into the fourth quarter. The easiest way to do that is by controlling the clock through running the football and KU Offensive Coordinator Andy Kotelnicki said this week that he viewed ...

15th annual Coaches vs. Cancer fundraiser coming to Lawrence in October

The 15th annual Coaches vs. Cancer season tipoff fundraiser is moving to Lawrence this year. Normally held in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, the event will move to the large ballroom at Crown Automotive in Lawrence for the 2022 event, which will officially be dubbed the Coaches vs. Cancer Rock Chalk Tipoff. According to a news release announcing the move, KU men’s basketball coach Bill Self “and several ...

Early look at West Virginia did not change Jayhawks' preparation for Big 12 opener

Just because the Kansas football team’s Week 2 opponent opened its season one day before the Jayhawks last week, and on national television at that, did not mean the Jayhawks threw a massive watch party and studied the action in silence. Some watched with a critical eye, others as casual fans and still more avoided it altogether. No matter how they took in last week’s West Virginia-Pittsburgh game, each ...