Following the lead of college football’s other Power Five conferences, the Big 12 will implement a trimmed down schedule for the upcoming season. The Big 12’s Board of Directors approved a plan Monday evening for the league’s teams to play a 10-game season, the conference ...
As Kansas football head coach Les Miles and his assistants finally began full-blown preparations for the 2020 season, with the team’s first practices of the year this past weekend, the Jayhawks also started adding potential pieces for their 2022 roster. A pair of soon-to-be high school ...
For the second time this summer, the Big 12 Conference has canceled its virtual media day for the 2020 football season. The event was originally slated for July 20-21 and rescheduled for Aug. 3. Conference officials announced the latest cancellation in a news release Thursday afternoon and ...
One of the most unusual seasons in Kansas football history opens Friday, when the Jayhawks conduct their first official practice of 2020. In addition to the typical football-related questions that surface each August, the upcoming season features a host of other unknowns related to the ...
Wednesday’s newly unveiled plans for the 2020 football season in the Atlantic Coast Conference figure to have a direct impact on the Kansas football schedule. In addition to moving to an 11-game format, with one nonconference opponent and 10 league games, the ACC on Wednesday announced that ...
Kansas Athletics on Tuesday night released the results of its most recent round of COVID-19 testing, which yielded zero positives in 156 tests. The testing, which included 136 athletes, took place last Saturday. KU did not provide a sport-by-sport breakdown of the athletes who were tested. ...
Those working to get college sports up and running have been hoping the return of professional sports would provide valuable information that could aid their efforts to play through a pandemic. A COVID-19 outbreak for a Major League Baseball team three days into its season forced two games to ...
Although it took time to finalize the details, Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long identified a replacement for New Hampshire on KU’s 2020 football schedule the same day that UNH pulled out. Mere hours after UNH AD Marty Scarano informed Long that the Wildcats would not be competing in any ...
Less than a week after decommitting from Ohio, three-star defensive back DeVonte Wilson orally committed to the Kansas football team Saturday afternoon. Wilson, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound cornerback from Robert F. Munroe Day School in Quincy, Fla., is close with fellow Class of 2021 KU commitment ...
The Kansas football program has a new start date for the 2020 season and a new first opponent. KU on Saturday announced an agreement with Southern Illinois to open the season Aug. 29 at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. The Jayhawks had previously been scheduled to open the season against ...
Earlier this week, two of the Kansas football program’s most dynamic offensive players were named to watch lists that honor all-around versatility. Junior running back Pooka Williams Jr. was one of 90 players named to the preseason watch list for the Maxwell Award, given annually to ...
The University of Kansas football program resumed voluntary workouts on Wednesday, 19 days after suspending offseason activities because of a dozen positive COVID-19 tests. KU Athletic Director Jeff Long announced Wednesday that 90 COVID-19 tests conducted last Saturday produced four positive ...
Two-star offensive lineman Larson Workman became the 14th prospect in the 2021 recruiting class to commit to the Kansas football program. The senior-to-be from Ganado, Texas, announced his commitment Tuesday on Twitter, thanking his friends, family and coaches. “We have worked so hard to ...
The Kansas football program found itself in the familiar position of last place when the 2020 preseason Big 12 Conference media poll was released Friday afternoon. KU, which finished 3-9 during head coach Les Miles’ first season in Lawrence in 2019, finished 10th in the 2020 preseason media ...
The Kansas football program is suddenly without an opponent for the first week of the 2020 season, as the University of New Hampshire announced Friday that none of its fall sports teams would play this year. Just after noon on Friday UNH officially announced that “no Wildcat fall sports ...
Updated at 10:24 p.m. Thursday The NCAA handed down its latest guidelines for playing through a pandemic while also sounding an alarm: The prospect of having a fall semester with football and other sports is looking grim. If the games can go on, the NCAA says college athletes should be ...
Kansas football senior Andrew Parchment and junior Pooka Williams Jr. were two of the 15 players named to the Big 12 Conference’s preseason all-Big 12 offense, league officials announced Thursday. The Jayhawks were one of five Big 12 programs to put multiple players on the preseason ...
The Kansas football program is planning another round of COVID-19 testing on Saturday, and the results of those tests will determine how soon the Jayhawks can get back on the field, KU Athletic Director Jeff Long said Wednesday. Initially hoping to resume the team’s suspended voluntary ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program is pushing its return-to-campus date back for the second time in three weeks in response to the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, KU coach Bill Self told the Journal-World on Wednesday. The Jayhawks now are aiming to return on Aug. 2, Self said. That date is ...
Was last year’s 3-9 record a baseline for Les Miles and the Kansas football program, and are the Jayhawks bound to make more progress in 2020? At least one national pundit seems to think so. To be fair, Brandon Marcello of 247 Sports did not put a win total on his 2020 predicted order of ...