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Week 2 preview: Illinois result could alter trajectory of KU’s season

Illinois coach Bret Bielema knows how much Friday's game means to his opponent. As he put it in a press conference Tuesday, "Kansas has targeted this game for a long time." "You know, when we agreed to move this game to Friday, they moved their (Missouri State) game to Friday so it's not as ...

Preview: Free State football looking for defensive boost in Week 2

After winning its opening game of the 2023 season, the Free State football team will look to pick up where it left off from a week ago with another road game this week, this one coming against Olathe Northwest at 7 p.m. Friday night at the College Boulevard Activity Center. Following the ...

KU golfer Belisle earns first career victory to open Jayhawks’ season

Kansas' Cecil Belisle opened his senior season with a bang this week, shooting a 1-under 212 in three rounds at the Folds of Honor Collegiate in Grand Haven, Michigan, and winning his first event as a Jayhawk. Belisle began the event with a 3-under 68 on Monday to tie for second place right ...

KU offensive line, quarterback will need to wear down vaunted Illinois front

Last season, the leaderboard for any given defensive statistical metric had a pretty good chance of reading "Illinois" at the top. The Fighting Illini allowed just 12.8 points per game — the fewest in the nation — and led the country in categories like interceptions (24), overall takeaways ...

KU comes in fifth, Texas No. 1 in inaugural Big 12 power rankings

The Texas Longhorns, set to leave for the Southeastern Conference after this season, received 11 of a possible 14 first-place votes in a new Big 12 Conference football power ranking from a panel of 14 beat writers that regularly cover the conference. Oklahoma, Kansas State and UCF each received ...