Football

Kansas enters AP Top 25 for second straight year

After opening the season 4-0, and most recently beating BYU 38-27 Saturday, the Kansas football team has been rewarded Sunday with the No. 24 spot in the Associated Press' Top 25 rankings. This is the second year in a row that KU has been ranked after a hiatus of nearly 13 years between ...

Jalon Daniels delivers as runner in KU’s conference win over BYU

The Kansas football team improved to 4-0 on the year with a 38-27 win over BYU Saturday afternoon at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. But for a brief moment, there was at least some suspense in the fourth quarter of KU’s double-digit victory. On third-and-5 from its own 40-yard line, ...

Second-half recovery showcases newfound strength of KU defense

At the core of Kansas’ 38-27 home victory over BYU was a balancing act by the KU defense, which overcame the Cougars’ heavy passing game and the Jayhawks’ own senseless penalties to open the Big 12 schedule in the win column on Saturday. Though it reduced the Cougars’ run game to dust ...

Kansas football surges past BYU in second half for 38-27 victory

No one told Lance Leipold, when he was considering joining Kansas as its head coach back in 2021, that the school hadn't gone 4-0 in consecutive years for over a century. “I’m glad I didn’t do all my research," Leipold quipped Saturday night. As it turned out, the Jayhawks needed just ...

Notebook: New conference foes KU and BYU share key historical memory

The way the trajectory of Kansas football history has gone, Jayhawk fans will have the memory of any bowl win (or appearance, even) firmly lodged in their brains. BYU’s visit this week may have dredged up the memory of a particularly prominent game, the 1992 Aloha Bowl that saw KU beat the ...

Quick recap: Kansas improves to 4-0 with win over BYU in Big 12 opener

The Kansas Jayhawks put last week’s underwhelming win behind them with a relatively complete performance during a 38-27 victory over the BYU Cougars Saturday afternoon in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. KU is now off to a 4-0 start for the second straight season, its first back-to-back ...

Week 4 preview: KU offense will need to play cleaner game against polished BYU

One of the most common drills media members were able to observe during Kansas football's fall training camp included receivers and running backs enduring a ball-security gauntlet. They had to hold on to the ball while dodging sudden obstacles, tackling dummies and punch-out attempts from KU ...