Football

At Iowa State, KU will face defensive scheme that has caused past issues

Eight completed passes, 3.6 yards per carry, 10 first downs, 213 yards of total offense. The 2022 game against Iowa State at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium went down as a win for Kansas in the record books, but has remained one of the Jayhawks’ poorest offensive performances of the last ...

KU football receives Big 12 opponents for next four seasons

The Kansas football team is still trying to make the most of its 2023 campaign, but has just received a window into what its 2024 and beyond will look like. The Big 12 Conference, which will grow to 16 teams in 2024 with the additions of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah and departures ...

KU receives CFP ranking for first time ever

The Kansas football program has received a ranking in the College Football Playoff’s top 25 teams for the first time in its history. The CFP’s 13-member selection committee unveiled its first rankings of the season Tuesday night live on ESPN, and it will continue ranking teams on a weekly ...

KU football now has to turn the page

Kansas coach Lance Leipold said Monday that he admired how his Iowa State counterpart Matt Campbell steered his squad through distractions back in the summer — when the Cyclones saw an ever-growing number of their student-athletes disciplined in an ongoing sports gambling investigation — ...

Significance of KU’s victory will reverberate beyond one season

Kansas coach Lance Leipold is very open about his tendency to focus on the negatives. For example, in the aftermath of his team's upset victory over No. 6 Oklahoma, when he learned cornerback Kwinton Lassiter hadn't been credited with an interception on his out-of-bounds snag of Dillon ...