It was a play that was days in the making. Kansas running back Devin Neal scored on his first offensive touch of the 2023 season, breaking free for a 48-yard touchdown run to give his team an early advantage en route to a 48-17 victory over Missouri State on Friday night at David Booth Kansas ...
The exact juncture at which Jason Bean found out he was going to start Kansas' season opener in place of Jalon Daniels may be lost to history. Head coach Lance Leipold said that "just by the amount of reps he’s had" over the course of the week as Kansas prepared for Missouri State and ...
Sixth-year senior quarterback Jason Bean started Friday’s game for Kansas, bringing an uneasy end to weeks of uncertainty — and a particularly intense 24 hours of speculation — surrounding the health of Jalon Daniels ahead of the season opener. It had begun when Daniels, last year’s ...
Coming off its first bowl season since 2008, the Kansas football team pushed past Missouri State for a 48-17 victory in the 2023 season opener on Friday night at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. And the formula looked a lot like what led the Jayhawks to a 5-0 start in their 6-7 campaign in ...
One of Kansas head coach Lance Leipold's defining questions to consider in surveying his season-opening foe, Missouri State, was “How much is carry-over, and what’s new flavor?” Missouri State lost head coach Bobby Petrino, but retained Petrino's son Nick as offensive coordinator and ...
Updated 6:20 p.m. Tuesday was a challenging cutdown day for former Jayhawks, as only one of the nine current NFL players who entered the league out of Kansas made a 53-man roster following the preseason. Defensive end Dorance Armstrong, who played in 76 games and started 13 over the first ...
It hasn’t always been easy for Kansas football teams to defend against Football Championship Subdivision foes, and it hasn’t always been easy for power-conference teams to defend against Missouri State. Last season, the Bears led 27-17 in the fourth quarter against Arkansas — the same ...
