Football

Booth Breakdown: A far-out look at the UCF Knights

This preview is the sixth of a 12-part series breaking down the upcoming KU football schedule. One of the four new programs found at Big 12 Conference Media Days this week, Central Florida, will make its first trip to Lawrence this fall when Kansas hosts the Knights in Week 6. Looking ahead, ...

Big 12 and membership continuing to weigh weeknight games as KSHSAA objects

Arlington, Texas — The Kansas State High School Activities Association Twitter account is, generally, a beacon of positivity. The association is quite liberal in its use of exclamation points, exhorting its followers to "Become a high school official!" or urging "Don't miss out!" on a ...

Linebacker group shows how KU can balance continuity, new ideas

Arlington, Texas — By any metric, Kansas football has retained one of the most similar rosters to its 2022 iteration of any Division I team in the country. The most concise way to express this fact is via the Jayhawks’ first-place position in the returning production rankings from ESPN’s ...

KU football reckoning with uncommonly high expectations

Arlington, Texas — Two years ago, the Kansas football team didn't even make it to the Big 12 Conference Media Days. Severe weather coming out of Lawrence grounded head coach Lance Leipold in his first year at the helm, and he and the Jayhawk players had to videoconference from afar. In 2022, ...

Three storylines to watch at a supersized Big 12 Media Days

The Big 12 Conference Football Media Days are back Wednesday at a familiar venue in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, complete with a familiar set of Kansas speakers in quarterback Jalon Daniels, running back Devin Neal, linebacker Rich Miller, safety Kenny Logan Jr., and head coach Lance ...

Goff says stadium capacity under 40,000 was never discussed

Consulting firm Hunden Strategic Partners created a stir in the Kansas sports community when it suggested last month that KU should consider shrinking its football stadium's capacity under 40,000 seats, from the current 47,233. That reduction, the consultants suggested, would make room for ...

KU unveils redesigned football jerseys

A big hype-building week for Kansas football, which featured four preseason all-conference first-team selections and a ninth-place projected finish, culminated late Friday night with the unveiling of two new uniforms. Kansas Athletics posted a video featuring two new designs on social media ...