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 ...
In the fourth quarter of Kansas’ season opener against Missouri State, which started as an unexpectedly close game but developed into a 31-point blowout, the Jayhawks let redshirt sophomore kicker Owen Piepergerdes attempt a late extra point. He made it. The development wasn’t especially ...
Champaign, Ill. — Neither former Illinois coach Bill Self nor former Michigan center Hunter Dickinson experienced an ideal return to the State Farm Center, but at least Self got to reunite with eight or nine of his former Illini players from the three years he spent in Champaign, and received ...
We have reached the halfway point of the Kansas football season, if you can believe it, though the Jayhawks have a chance to displace the midpoint a little further if they can pick up one more win. Yes, KU is not far away from adding a bowl game to its schedule for the second straight year. ...
Austin, Texas — Quarterback Jason Bean said he didn't know he was going to start Saturday's game — on the road at the No. 3 team in the country, in front of an announced 102,986 fans — until 30 or 45 minutes before it started. Kansas coach Lance Leipold said he didn't know that starter ...
Six hundred eighty-one days later, Kansas coach Lance Leipold is tired of talking about his first-year Jayhawks' landmark upset win over Texas two seasons ago. "Old news," Leipold said tersely Monday. "Doesn’t matter. Both teams are significantly better. Honestly, it’s so far in the past, ...
