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 from taking unbeaten No. 14 Oklahoma State (6-0, 3-0) this week.
At the very least, the future is looking more promising for the KU football program. Do you think the Jayhawks have a chance at ending their 35-game losing streak away from Lawrence on Saturday? Let us know in the comments section below.
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WEEK 8 MATCHUPS
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**Clemson at Miami**
**Utah at USC**
**Kansas State at Texas**
**Texas A&M at Ole Miss**
**Northwestern at Nebraska**
**Kansas at Oklahoma State**
| Picker | Clemson at Miami |
Utah at USC |
Kansas St. at Texas |
Texas A&M at Ole Miss |
Northwestern at Nebraska |
Kansas at Oklahoma St. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Keegan |
Clemson, 28-24 |
USC, 31-28 |
Texas, 34-27 |
Ole Miss, 35-31 |
Nebraska, 28-21 |
Oklahoma St., 35-14 |
| Matt Tait |
Clemson, 34-26 |
Utah, 30-28 |
Texas, 27-26 |
Texas A&M, 33-27 |
Nebraska, 41-27 |
Oklahoma St., 52-14 |
| Scott Stanford |
Clemson, 35-20 |
Utah, 49-3 |
Texas, 28-14 |
Ole Miss, 38-35 |
Northwestern, 24-10 |
Oklahoma St., 42-38 |
| Andrew Hartsock |
Clemson, 33-32 |
Utah, 66-65 |
Kansas St., 8-6 |
Ole Miss, 3-2 |
Nebraska, 58-57 (OT) |
Oklahoma St., 33-3 |
| Gary Bedore |
Clemson, 34-31 |
USC, 39-34 |
Texas, 27-17 |
Ole Miss, 40-24 |
Nebraska, 30-19 |
Oklahoma St., 63-14 |
| Chris Cottrell |
Clemson, 28-17 |
USC, 41-38 |
Texas, 28-27 |
Ole Miss, 32-30 |
Nebraska, 28-21 |
Oklahoma St., 45-20 |
| Benton Smith |
Clemson, 31-28 |
Utah, 38-30 |
Texas, 24-23 |
Ole Miss, 35-31 |
Nebraska, 30-24 |
Oklahoma St., 49-17 |
| Bobby Nightengale |
Clemson, 44-17 |
Utah, 45-24 |
Texas, 35-31 |
Texas A&M, 27-21 |
Northwestern, 14-10 |
Oklahoma St., 52-20 |
| Chris Duderstadt |
Clemson, 31-21 |
Utah, 45-28 |
Texas, 35-31 |
Texas A&M, 41-38 |
Northwestern, 13-10 |
Oklahoma St., 49-14 |
| Kurt Gatson |
Clemson, 31-24 |
Utah, 31-30 |
Texas, 27-23 |
Ole Miss, 30-24 |
Northwestern, 29-22 |
Oklahoma St., 49-14 |
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
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**In 1989, “Back to the Future II” predicted a Cubs World Series title and flying cars in October of 2015. What historical moment or unrealized technology are you still waiting for?**
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Last week: 5-1 | Season: 32-10
> Flying cars would be cool but Johnson
> County drivers would still probably
> drive like they owned the sky.
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Last week: 5-1 | Season: 31-11
> A food reverser zapper. The food
> reverser zapper, which looks a little
> like a taser, turns every food that’s
> healthy unhealthy and makes every
> unhealthy food healthy with one pull
> of the trigger. This would lead to
> parents saying, “Come on, Junior,
> finish your french fries, but remember
> to leave room for your entire
> chocolate cake.”
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Last week: 5-1 | Season: 31-11
> Another good, tough question. I’d say
> the flying car definitely should have
> been invented by now. One like they
> used in the Jetsons. I mean, have the
> automobile companies plotted against
> such technology? I wonder if there’s
> some sort of conspiracy to stop it. I
> also challenge doctors to find cures
> for some of these diseases that plague
> the world. I know it’s not easy to
> cure disease and genetic diseases, but
> I’ve been hoping with all the money
> raised to combat so many diseases like
> cancer that some cures would have been
> concocted by now. Get it done,
> doctors/technicians of the world!
> Thank you.
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Last week: 5-1 | Season: 31-11
> A Royals World Series title.
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Last week: 4-2 | Season: 30-12
> I’d love to be able to fly. And not
> like a pilot, but with a personal jet
> pack or something like that. It would
> be awesome to be able to cruise out to
> Colorado to watch a big game with my
> dad and still make it to work on time
> the next day. It’s coming. I just know
> it. And I feel like it would be safer
> than adding thousands of cars to the
> roads every year.
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Last week: 4-2 | 30-12
> Still waiting for a wedge that beeps
> when I’ve gone far enough in my
> backswing to hit it exactly the right
> distance. Imagine that…
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Last week: 4-2 | Season: 29-13
> A worldwide communications network
> connecting every individual’s
> electronic device (wired or wireless,
> even) to every other, essentially
> putting all the accumulated knowledge
> of all mankind, forever, at a person’s
> fingertips. Of course, it also could
> be used to distribute funny pictures
> of cats and inane videos of people
> tripping and falling into water
> fountains. That. Or transporters.
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Last week: 5-1 | Season: 29-13
> The Chiefs winning a playoff game.
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Last week: 4-2 | Season: 25-17
> Still waiting for an alarm clock that
> can avoid me hitting the snooze button
> 25 times in the morning.
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Last week: 3-3 | Season: 23-19
> As long as we’re on the subject of Doc
> Brown and Marty McFly, I’ll go with
> time travel. Just so someone could go
> back in time and gather up some of the
> all-time great basketball players in
> history — Larry Bird, Wilt
> Chamberlain, Julius Erving, Magic
> Johnson, Michael Jordan, Oscar
> Robertson, Bill Russell, Jerry West —
> and bring them to 2015 to see how
> they’d match up with today’s NBA
> stars.
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