It was a truly dreadful year for those of us who, as at least some small part of our professional duties, have to project how Big 12 Conference teams will fare in football. As a voter in the league’s preseason poll, I was as guilty as anyone of incorrectly assuming that Utah (5-7, 2-7 Big ...

The Kansas football program has one major hurdle to clear if it wants to reach a third straight bowl game for the first time ever: beating a streaking Baylor team in a stadium where the Jayhawks have never won. If they do that, it’s anyone’s guess what the month of December might ...

With Kansas' latest bye week ongoing ahead of the Jayhawks' matchup with Iowa State on Nov. 9, there's plenty of time to ponder every facet of the Jayhawks' disappointing season. Up next on the list are the defense, which has given up its fair share of big plays but held strong in key moments, ...

A quirk in the college football calendar has left the Kansas football team with an odd late-season lull. For the first time since 2019, the schedule has aligned in a precise way — in short, it has to do with having an earlier Labor Day than usual, and will happen again next year — such ...

During the first few weeks of the college football season, the popular narrative about Kansas and its early-season struggles was that new coordinator Jeff Grimes, Jalon Daniels and the offense were letting down a resurgent, high-intensity, physical KU defense. That storyline got twisted on ...

As the Kansas football team climbed back to national prominence in 2022 and 2023, the Jayhawks’ special-teams units often lagged behind. Consider the SP+ rankings compiled by ESPN’s Bill Connelly. The Jayhawks finished the 2022 campaign with a minus-1.7 rating for special teams that was ...