KU Football

Big 12 power rankings holding steady ahead of final regular-season games

Texas remained the unanimous No. 1 in the Big 12 Conference power rankings entering the final weekend of the regular season. The Longhorns received all 14 first-place votes from a panel of beat writers that regularly cover the league. One point separated Oklahoma and Kansas State for the Nos. ...

Bowl projections coalescing around return to Arizona for KU football

Fifteen years, five sponsors and one field ago, the Kansas football team earned its last bowl win in Arizona. Todd Reesing threw five touchdown passes, including three straight after the halftime break, as the Jayhawks beat Minnesota 42-21 on New Year’s Eve in the 2008 Insight Bowl at Sun ...

Leipold expects both Bean and Ballard to be available again Saturday

Only one Kansas quarterback had practiced enough last week that the coaching staff felt confident starting him in the Sunflower Showdown. KU coach Lance Leipold said postgame Saturday — and reiterated in his press conference Monday — that even though both quarterbacks were cleared to ...

KU’s creative run game on display in near-upset of Kansas State

Freshman quarterback Cole Ballard, a former walk-on who was recently given a scholarship, became the third different Kansas quarterback to make a start this season in Saturday’s 31-27 loss to Kansas State at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. Despite the QB carousel, the Jayhawks have ...

Pivotal second-half mistakes doom KU in 31-27 loss to Kansas State

Kansas had a chance to extend its lead to three possessions early in the third quarter Saturday night. With Kansas State deep in its own territory, Rich Miller broke on a short pass from the Wildcats’ quarterback Will Howard looking for Phillip Brooks. Howard never saw Miller coming; all the ...