Iowa State was the overwhelming pick for the top spot in this week's Big 12 power rankings. The Cyclones received 14 of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Arizona State, which held the top spot after the opening week of the season, ...
It’s early in the year for a bye week, but it feels like the Kansas football team has already had the chance to learn a lot about itself. The Jayhawks saw what they could look like on both sides of the ball when functioning at near-peak capacity in early-season home matchups with Fresno ...
Kansas football players undoubtedly heard all sorts of things from the sold-out Missouri crowd as they prepared to battle the Tigers on Saturday. One thing tight end DeShawn Hanika heard was a fan asking him if he even plays. “To be honest, I love it,” Hanika said. “I heard him. I had ...
Updated 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025: The Big 12 Conference has removed an officiating crew from its next scheduled assignment as a result of an error made during Saturday’s game between Kansas and Missouri. According to a statement issued by the conference on Tuesday morning, the crew’s ...
Kansas and West Virginia will meet for their Week 4 football game at 5 p.m. on Sept. 20, the Big 12 Conference announced on Monday. It will be the first league matchup contested at the newly renovated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, and the third straight evening game there after KU ...
Columbia, Mo. — DeShawn Hanika tells his fellow tight ends, “We like to live in hell.” It’s a shorthand for a mindset that he and his teammates will have to adopt over the course of the next week and a half, as they embrace the opportunity to battle through their first major adversity ...
Columbia, Mo. — When Kansas coach Lance Leipold explained linebacker Bangally Kamara’s absence against Wagner as a “non-contact injury” and said his status would be “unknown for a while,” it didn’t necessarily give the impression that Kamara would return for KU’s very next ...
Columbia, Mo. — The Kansas offense had barely touched the ball in the second quarter — in fact, the Jayhawks had held it for 14 seconds compared to Missouri’s 810 — when KU regained possession of the ball with three timeouts and just over a minute remaining in the first half. The ...
