Pick Six

Final shot: KU needs to topple K-State to avoid winless season

Saturday marks the last shot for Kansas football to avoid going 0-for-the-season in football victories. With rival Kansas State coming to Memorial Stadium, is this finally the week first-year coach David Beaty gets the proverbial monkey off his back? Many remain doubtful of KU’s chances ...

Is this the week KU finally gets in the win column?

Kansas closes its 2015 football season with back-to-back home games at Memorial Stadium. And for the first time since the non-conference portion of the schedule, people seem to think the Jayhawks might be able to get first-year head coach David Beaty his first career victory. In fact, out of ...

KU’s last chance to win on road this year comes (gulp) at TCU

Saturday marks the Kansas football team’s last chance in 2015 to end a losing streak away from home that currently stands at 37 games. However, the winless Jayhawks don’t figure to have much of a shot at avoiding consecutive loss No. 38, because they have to play at No. 13 TCU. And the ...

Even struggling Texas too much for Kansas?

As we enter the home stretch to the 2015 college football season, things aren’t looking much brighter for Kansas. But the Jayhawks are facing a Texas team that got blanked, 24-0, last week at Iowa State. Does that mean winless KU (0-8 overall, 0-5 Big 12) has a chance for the upset ...

Dominant Sooners aim to keep KU winless

There are plenty of reasons no one from the KUsports.com team is picking 0-7 Kansas to beat No. 14 Oklahoma (6-1 overall, 3-1 Big 12) Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Here are just a few influencing factors. OU is better than KU in the following categories: *- Points per game: ...

Back on the road, Jayhawks could have long Saturday afternoon

There is no question that the Kansas football team showed some significant progress last week, in a home loss to Texas Tech that featured a three-point fourth-quarter deficit at one juncture. But the improving Jayhawks (0-6 overall, 0-3 Big 12) haven’t done enough yet to sway our pickers ...

Texas Tech another heavy favorite

Winless in the still young stages of the David Beaty coaching era, Kansas football will have to upset high-scoring Texas Tech on Saturday (11 a.m. kickoff at Memorial Stadium) to put an end to the program’s eight-game losing streak, which dates back to last season’s victory over Iowa ...

Bears will win, but how many points will they score?

Surely, you’re aware Kansas football faces No. 3 Baylor Saturday at Memorial Stadium. And, surely, you realize the Bears are going to win. That’s why we didn’t include the KU-Baylor game in this week’s edition of Pick Six. No way the Bears lose. So why ask people to predict the ...