An already shorthanded Kansas defense lost an integral player within nine minutes Saturday night at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. After a lengthy review, senior Bryce Torneden was called for targeting with the helmet after making a play in punt coverage. He was ultimately ejected at the ...
In the days leading up to his Ring of Honor ceremony Saturday night, it wasn’t an interception or some type of game-swinging takeaway that stood out to former Kansas football safety Darrell Stuckey, as he reflected on his days in the Jayhawks’ secondary. In fact, when asked earlier this ...
The entire Jayhawks roster had one thing in mind once the game clock expired Saturday night: chasing down the man who just made their 37-34 victory over Texas Tech possible. Impossibly the man of the night just seconds after the Red Raiders blocked his 40-yard field goal, junior KU kicker Liam ...
— Kansas (2-5 overall, 0-4 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech (3-4, 1-3) • 6 p.m. kickoff, David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium • Game-time forecast: 54 degrees, mostly sunny, 2% chance of rain • TV: FOX Sports 1 • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 — Log on to KUsports.com for our live coverage ...
Like most college football players, Darrell Stuckey didn’t give much thought when he arrived at the University of Kansas as a freshman about the possibility of seeing his name commemorated inside the stadium where he played. Stuckey will live out that unforeseen reality on Saturday night at ...
In a narrow, last-second loss for the Kansas football team at Texas this past weekend, a number of mistakes at various junctures of a wild game in Austin prevented the Jayhawks from pulling off the upset victory. Some special teams failures, by KU’s kicking unit in particular, stood out in a ...
Kansas City, Mo. — While Bill Self spent the vast majority of his time Wednesday at Big 12 media day fielding questions about his basketball program, the subject briefly turned to the University of Kansas football program at one juncture. With KU’s head football coach, Les Miles, having a ...
For all the relatively positive vibes a last-second defeat at Texas seemed to generate for the downtrodden Kansas football program, the Jayhawks obviously encountered some defensive issues yet again in a 50-48 loss. As Les Miles succinctly put it during his Saturday night postgame press ...
With the early December signing period now just a couple months away, the Kansas football team added another commitment to its already crowded 2020 recruiting class. Steven McBride, a three-star receiver from Gonzales, La., announced Tuesday his plans to play for Les Miles and the ...
The second season of the Les Miles era at the University of Kansas will jump into Big 12 action in a hurry. The Jayhawks won’t open the 2020 schedule with three straight nonconference foes, as they usually do. The Big 12 announced next season’s football calendars for all 10 teams on ...
The Kansas football team’s defense will be without another starter when the Jayhawks face Texas Tech for homecoming on Saturday. Head coach Les Miles said during his Monday press conference that safety Jeremiah McCullough will miss the matchup with the Red Raiders due to injury. McCullough, ...
Usually understated during his weekly press conferences, Kansas football coach Les Miles heard something Monday afternoon that stirred him to exuberance. The subject material didn’t have anything to do with the Jayhawks’ performance this past weekend at Texas, either. Rather it was a ...
Austin, Texas — The Kansas football team lost on the last play of the game in offensive coordinator Brent Dearmon’s sideline debut Saturday at No. 15 Texas. Even so, the offensive output fortified the Jayhawks’ conviction that the midseason switch to Dearmon will make a significant ...
Austin, Texas — In college football, motivational ploys know no bounds. And it appears one such behind-the-scenes tactic carried out by the Kansas staff this past week left its mark on quarterback Carter Stanley. After the senior helped the Jayhawks take a 1-point lead late in the fourth ...
Austin, Texas — In the exhilarating moment, the Kansas Jayhawks were convinced they had done it. They arrived at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday convinced they could knock off No. 15 Texas. And when KU quarterback Carter Stanley found receiver Daylon Charlot in the back of ...
Moral victories suck. By definition, they’re a cold, empty reminder that the one reason all teams suit up did not happen. But that doesn’t mean they’re totally worthless. KU’s 50-48 loss at Texas on Saturday night in Austin, Texas, was all the adjectives you could possibly imagine ...
Austin, Texas — Although still listed on the game day roster as a quarterback, Kansas football freshman Torry Locklin took all of his pregame reps with the Jayhawks’ running backs. That didn’t mean, however, the 6-foot-2, 210-pound athlete from Rockdale, Texas, Locklin was making a ...
Austin, Texas — Les Miles didn’t shake up his coaching staff in the middle of the season to play it conservatively with a chance to knock off a top-15 ranked Texas team on the road. And even though the Mad Hatter and the Jayhawks opted for heroics, the Longhorns dashed those chances with ...
— Kansas (2-4 overall, 0-3 Big 12) at No. 15 Texas (4-2, 2-1) • 6 p.m. kickoff, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium • Game-time forecast: 88 degrees, mostly sunny, 0% chance of rain • TV: Longhorn Network • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 — Log on to KUsports.com for our live ...
Les Miles would like for you to believe that the offense his Kansas football team will run after its midseason bye week won’t be all that dissimilar from the one it used during the first six games of the season. Miles even claimed that after firing offensive coordinator and quarterbacks ...