There is no question that the Kansas football team showed some significant progress last week, in a home loss to Texas Tech that featured a three-point fourth-quarter deficit at one juncture.

But the improving Jayhawks (0-6 overall, 0-3 Big 12) haven’t done enough yet to sway our pickers from taking unbeaten No. 14 Oklahoma State (6-0, 3-0) this week.

At the very least, the future is looking more promising for the KU football program. Do you think the Jayhawks have a chance at ending their 35-game losing streak away from Lawrence on Saturday? Let us know in the comments section below.

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WEEK 8 MATCHUPS

Clemson at Miami

Utah at USC

Kansas State at Texas

Texas A&M at Ole Miss

Northwestern at Nebraska

Kansas at Oklahoma State

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

In 1989, “Back to the Future II” predicted a Cubs World Series title and flying cars in October of 2015. What historical moment or unrealized technology are you still waiting for?

Last week: 5-1 | Season: 32-10

Flying cars would be cool but Johnson
County drivers would still probably
drive like they owned the sky.

Last week: 5-1 | Season: 31-11

A food reverser zapper. The food
reverser zapper, which looks a little
like a taser, turns every food that’s
healthy unhealthy and makes every
unhealthy food healthy with one pull
of the trigger. This would lead to
parents saying, “Come on, Junior,
finish your french fries, but remember
to leave room for your entire
chocolate cake.”

Last week: 5-1 | Season: 31-11

Another good, tough question. I’d say
the flying car definitely should have
been invented by now. One like they
used in the Jetsons. I mean, have the
automobile companies plotted against
such technology? I wonder if there’s
some sort of conspiracy to stop it. I
also challenge doctors to find cures
for some of these diseases that plague
the world. I know it’s not easy to
cure disease and genetic diseases, but
I’ve been hoping with all the money
raised to combat so many diseases like
cancer that some cures would have been
concocted by now. Get it done,
doctors/technicians of the world!
Thank you.

Last week: 5-1 | Season: 31-11

A Royals World Series title.

Last week: 4-2 | Season: 30-12

I’d love to be able to fly. And not
like a pilot, but with a personal jet
pack or something like that. It would
be awesome to be able to cruise out to
Colorado to watch a big game with my
dad and still make it to work on time
the next day. It’s coming. I just know
it. And I feel like it would be safer
than adding thousands of cars to the
roads every year.

Last week: 4-2 | 30-12

Still waiting for a wedge that beeps
when I’ve gone far enough in my
backswing to hit it exactly the right
distance. Imagine that…

Last week: 4-2 | Season: 29-13

A worldwide communications network
connecting every individual’s
electronic device (wired or wireless,
even) to every other, essentially
putting all the accumulated knowledge
of all mankind, forever, at a person’s
fingertips. Of course, it also could
be used to distribute funny pictures
of cats and inane videos of people
tripping and falling into water
fountains. That. Or transporters.

Last week: 5-1 | Season: 29-13

The Chiefs winning a playoff game.

Last week: 4-2 | Season: 25-17

Still waiting for an alarm clock that
can avoid me hitting the snooze button
25 times in the morning.

Last week: 3-3 | Season: 23-19

As long as we’re on the subject of Doc
Brown and Marty McFly, I’ll go with
time travel. Just so someone could go
back in time and gather up some of the
all-time great basketball players in
history — Larry Bird, Wilt
Chamberlain, Julius Erving, Magic
Johnson, Michael Jordan, Oscar
Robertson, Bill Russell, Jerry West —
and bring them to 2015 to see how
they’d match up with today’s NBA
stars.