Football

Big 12 power rankings: Colorado ascends to No. 1 ahead of trip to face KU

Your turn, Colorado. After Kansas defeated previously unbeaten BYU, Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes moved into the top spot in the Big 12 power rankings entering the penultimate week of the regular season. The Buffaloes, who will take their turn facing KU on Saturday, received 13 of ...

KU flips running back Thurman from Notre Dame

Fresh off a big win on the gridiron Saturday night, the Kansas football team posted another significant victory on Monday morning, this time on the recruiting trail. Justin Thurman, a running back from Tampa, Florida, in the class of 2025 who once received his first collegiate scholarship ...

KU defense reversed season-long trends in BYU upset

Provo, Utah — In virtually all of the Kansas football team’s six losses this season, the Jayhawks’ defense had a chance to get one decisive stop and seal a victory. At Illinois, KU gave up a go-ahead touchdown and then a clock-killing drive that resulted in a field goal. Against UNLV, ...

KU stuns previously unbeaten BYU in road thriller

Provo, Utah — The best play of the year for the Kansas football team was a punt. Faced with an unenviable fourth-and-14 on BYU’s 36-yard line, down 13-10 with quarterback Jalon Daniels having just taken a sack to push the Jayhawks out of field-goal range, KU lined up as though it was going ...

Tight end Skipworth flips from KU to Mississippi State

Joeseph Skipworth, a tight end recruit in the class of 2025, announced on Saturday night that he has flipped his commitment from Kansas to Mississippi State. Skipworth is a three-star prospect from Pace High School in Pace, Florida, who had been committed to KU since June 12. He received a ...

Nickens commits to KU; 4-star wideout also plays basketball

Kansas continued to add to its incoming group of wide receivers — and its basketball roster at the same time — when it earned the commitment of two-sport athlete Jaden Nickens on Thursday afternoon. “It was very important having sports like Kansas basketball, being number one in the ...

Comfort in the system has created more explosive plays for Kansas offense

Kansas offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes has talked a lot about explosive plays in his first year in Lawrence. After a slow start to the year, KU’s offense has begun to generate them more reliably, but there hasn't been any new revelation in play calling or scheme, even if there have been ...