Football

Quick recap: KU loses 18th straight to K-State, 35-24

MANHATTAN — Even after squandering one of its largest leads in the 18-year duration of its Sunflower Showdown losing streak — 10 points — the Kansas football team still had a chance to surge ahead of Kansas State late on Saturday afternoon when was trailing by just one point. But Isaiah ...

Preview: KU, K-State looking for first conference win in Sunflower Showdown

Kansas coach Lance Leipold tries to treat each game week the same way while also imparting the importance of the Jayhawks’ rivalry matchups. As he acknowledged on Monday in the lead-up to the latest Sunflower Showdown, that has sometimes become a topic of conversation among KU fans as the ...

Former KU assistant leading K-State defense into Sunflower Showdown

During his tenure at Kansas, which spanned two different coaching staffs and several roles across four seasons, Jordan Peterson had the opportunity to fill in as acting defensive coordinator on a pair of occasions. Once, he took over for D.J. Eliot due to COVID-19 late in the winless 2020 ...

Todd hopes his interception will be first of many

Kansas cornerback Jalen Todd waited a long time for his first career interception. The junior, a Detroit native, has been playing frequently ever since he served as a nickel back and occasional reserve on the outside as a true freshman in 2024. He has spent each of the last two seasons as ...

KU coaches appreciate shoutout from Indiana’s Cignetti

Kansas associate head coach Andy Kotelnicki has spoken in the past about combing through other teams’ film in search of new plays to add to his arsenal. “We are the greatest thieves in the country,” he said back in 2023, during his first stint with the Jayhawks. Last Saturday, he found ...

Leipold updates status of pair of receivers after loss to Utah

SALT LAKE CITY — In Saturday’s 41-24 loss to No. 12 Utah, the Kansas football team relied as heavily as in any game this year on the trio of wide receivers Cam Pickett, Nik McMillan and Nahzae Cox. The group accounted for 26 of quarterback Isaiah Marshall’s 37 targets, and Pickett had a ...