Football

Hanika out for season following surgery

Kansas tight end DeShawn Hanika underwent surgery and will miss the rest of the season due to injury, head coach Lance Leipold said on Monday. It is the second season-ending injury in two years with the Jayhawks for Hanika, who missed all of the 2024 campaign due to an Achilles injury after ...

KU defense builds confidence with late-game stops against UCF

Orlando, Fla. — Kansas linebacker Trey Lathan had no doubt that he had stopped UCF quarterback Cam Fancher on fourth-and-goal in the late stages of KU's 27-20 victory. “For sure, yeah,” Lathan said. “I knew he was short.” The officials at the Bounce House on Saturday night weren’t ...

KU holds off UCF twice in final minutes to preserve 27-20 road victory

Orlando, Fla. — The Kansas defense started so poorly on Saturday night against UCF that it allowed the Knights to score on all of their first-half possessions, and gave up 99 early rushing yards and two touchdowns to running back Myles Montgomery. In the second half, Montgomery carried the ...

Preview: KU defense looks to get back on track with road trip to UCF

The Kansas defense was plagued by misalignments and missed assignments, as head coach Lance Leipold put it, from the beginning of the Jayhawks’ game against Cincinnati. The results were not pretty. KU conceded 603 total yards, including 388 through the air and a pair of touchdowns to the ...

KU getting backup quarterbacks involved in unusual ways

With running back Daniel Hishaw Jr. out for Kansas’ game last Saturday against Cincinnati, the Jayhawks were looking for a spark in the run game wherever they could get it. Offensive coordinator Jim Zebrowski turned to an unlikely source: KU’s backup quarterbacks. On a first-and-10 in the ...

Big 12 officially announces KU football game in London

Updated 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025: The Big 12 Conference officially announced on Wednesday morning that Kansas and Arizona State will play a football game in London on Sept. 19, 2026. KU and ASU will become the first-ever college football teams to play at Wembley Stadium, and the ...

UCF is ‘TBD’ at quarterback entering matchup with KU

Kansas and UCF are about to face off for the second time ever, and both matchups have featured considerable intrigue at quarterback for the Knights. When they made their inaugural trip to the old David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium to take on the Jayhawks in 2023, the big question was whether ...