A 15-year drought without a bowl win got one step closer to becoming history when Kansas drew its date with UNLV in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl in Phoenix on Dec. 26. It was Tempe that served as the backdrop for the Jayhawks’ last bowl victory, a 42-21 rout over Minnesota in the 2008 Insight ...
Kansas came up short in a thrilling defeat to Arkansas during last year’s Liberty Bowl when the Razorbacks recorded a 55-53 victory in Memphis, Tennessee. This time around, as far as opponents go, UNLV is probably the best foe Kansas could have asked for in terms of recording a potential ...
Ahead of the bowl game is a great time to give some shine to players who don’t always get the star treatment. Here are a couple of Jayhawks who helped the team grow this year and didn’t always get much recognition for it. Both of them have additional eligibility and could figure ...
The state of Arizona is becoming more and more of a second home for the Kansas football team. In one sense the transition is quite purposeful, as KU’s coaches — particularly co-defensive coordinator Jordan Peterson and even head coach Lance Leipold — are rapidly becoming better ...
Kansas linebacker Rich Miller approached every game this season with the mentality that he and his teammates had to “do what we needed to do from the jump.” That instinct, he said, originated from the 2022 Liberty Bowl, in which “we fought hard but we waited too late to do it.” The ...
The Kansas football team landed at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport on Friday afternoon, kicking off a five-day sojourn that the Jayhawks hope will conclude Tuesday night with their first bowl win since 2008. "Our team is extremely excited to be here," head coach Lance Leipold told reporters ...