Kansas University’s Oct. 15 football game with Oklahoma at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., will start at 6 p.m. and be televised on TBS (Sunflower Broadband channel 10).
It will be the first time KU has been on national television since the 2003 Tangerine Bowl (ESPN). KU was on Fox Sports Net regional cable three times last season.
Saturday’s Kansas-Kansas State game will be televised on Fox Sports Midwest (Sunflower Broadband channel 36). Kickoff will be at 11 a.m.
¢ QB spot unsettled: Kansas coach Mark Mangino confirmed Monday that his quarterback plans for Saturday’s game at Kansas State definitely weren’t set in stone.
“I really don’t know about that yet,” Mangino said. “We are still dealing with that situation and putting together a plan.”
Brian Luke, Adam Barmann and Marcus Herford all received snaps against Texas Tech. Luke seems the most likely candidate to start again Saturday, but other options – including senior Jason Swanson and true freshman Kerry Meier – may be getting explored.
“We really haven’t made a decision either way yet,” Mangino said of Meier’s red-shirt option. “We still think we are still in the part of the season where we are working with him every day. We are trying to see if he could be ready to play in games here in the near future.”
¢ Snyder bumming: It can’t be said that Kansas State is coming into Saturday’s in-state rivalry game with any sort of momentum.
“The Oklahoma game wasn’t a contest,” KSU coach Bill Snyder said of the Wildcats’ 43-21 loss. “If it was, we weren’t a part of it.”
Snyder called his team’s performance a “comedy of errors,” which included a blooper for the ages: Early in the game, the long snapper flung the football right out the back of the end zone on a punt play for a safety – because the punter was still on the sideline.
“When you put your punt team on,” Snyder said, “you’re supposed to take your punter with you.”
KSU opens as a seven-point favorite against KU, but Snyder is leery, to say the least.
“We certainly have our hands full with Kansas,” Snyder said. “But even more so in trying to get our own game straightened out.”
¢ Aloha Bowl team honored: KU will honor the 10th anniversary of the 1995 Jayhawks, who won the Aloha Bowl, on Oct. 15 during halftime of the Kansas-Oklahoma game at Arrowhead Stadium. The 1995 team went 10-2, the last Kansas team to finish better than .500.
