The current Kansas football team is in many ways removed from the era in which the Border War rivalry with Missouri took center stage. KU has players on its roster who were in preschool when the Jayhawks and Tigers played for — until this year — the final time, as part of the 2011 season, ...
Arizona State begins this season in the same spot as it ended last season – at the top. The defending Big 12 champions are No. 1 in the first Big 12 power rankings, receiving 11 of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Iowa State ...
Keeping in mind that it’s been 13 years since Kansas and Missouri last played, some sort of refresher on the Tigers might be necessary. Not so much a refresher about the University of Missouri in a broad sense, or the history between KU and MU — which KU fans are surely well acquainted ...
Kansas didn’t encounter a lot of resistance in its 46-7 victory over Wagner last Friday, but one of the “disappointments of the game,” as head coach Lance Leipold put it, arrived late in the first quarter. Redshirt freshman linebacker Jon Jon Kamara, making his first career start at ...
The 2025 matchup between Kansas and Missouri has been on the books since 2020, which means it’s been on the horizon for the entire duration of Lance Leipold’s tenure as KU’s head coach. He’s just started to hear about it a little more often recently. “You know, you try to push it ...
Kansas coach Lance Leipold didn’t have to go far to find good information about Missouri quarterback Beau Pribula. Andy Kotelnicki, who spent 11 seasons working for Leipold as his offensive coordinator across stops at Wisconsin-Whitewater, Buffalo and KU, “raved about him as a person, as a ...
Kansas fans who do not make the trip to Columbia, Missouri, to see the long-awaited renewal of the Kansas-Missouri rivalry in person will still have an opportunity to watch the game in a pumped-up stadium environment. KU Athletics is hosting a watch party for the Border Showdown game on ...
For the first time in 14 years, Kansas and Missouri are meeting for a football game. On Saturday at Faurot Field, they will renew a rivalry that dates back to 1891 on the gridiron, and four decades earlier in terms of material cross-border political violence between anti- and pro-slavery ...
