Football

Big 12 power rankings: ASU opens at No. 1

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 ...

Jon Jon Kamara will receive his most extensive playing time against Missouri

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 ...

Getting to know the Tigers: Q&A with a Missouri writer

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 ...

Former KU coach Kotelnicki ‘raved’ to Leipold about Missouri’s Pribula

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 ...

KU to host watch party for Missouri game; SEC pregame show headed to Columbia

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 ...

Border War returns this week after long hiatus

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 ...

KU receiver Henderson’s speed on display in 46-7 win over Wagner

In each of the first two games of the Kansas football season, a different receiver has boosted the Jayhawks with two touchdowns. On Friday, it was Emmanuel Henderson Jr. As KU beat Wagner 46-7 at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, Henderson flashed his speed, leading to touchdowns and first ...