2017 Kansas Football Results: Southeast Missouri State, won, 38-16; Central Michigan, lost, 45-27; Ohio University, lost, 42-30; West Virginia, lost, 56-34; Texas Tech, lost, 65-19; Iowa State, lost, 45-0; TCU, lost, 43-0; Kansas State, lost, 30-20; Baylor, lost, 38-9; Texas, lost, 42-27; Oklahoma, lost, 41-3; Oklahoma State, lost, 58-17.
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| David Beaty |
The good news for Kansas fans is that the Jayhawks this season already have doubled their win total of last season. The bad news is that Kansas has yet to win a Big 12 game this season. Through seven games, KU is 2-5, 0-4 Big 12. The Birds are 1-2 at home, 1-3 on the road.
Kansas has wins over Central Michigan (31-17) and Rutgers (50-14). The Jayhawks have lost to Nicholls State (26-23, in overtime), Baylor (26-7), Oklahoma State (48-28) and Texas Tech (48-16).
After the loss to Oklahoma State, six games into the season, Beaty decided the problem was with the Kansas offense, so he fired offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach Doug Meacham. When Beaty lured Meacham from TCU to Kansas last year, he hailed it as a game-changing hire. Evidently the way the game changed was not to Beaty's liking. Beaty now is handing the play-calling, with help from the rest of his staff.
Offensively, Kansas is averaging 26 points per game. KU has scored 109 points in three nonconference games, 73 points in four conference games. The Birds have 2,404 yards of total offense, for an average of 343.4 yards per game. They have scored 23 touchdowns, including 10 touchdowns of the 13 times they have scored out of 17 times they have been in the red zone.
Running the offense is senior quarterback Peyton Bender (#7), 6-1, 205 pounds. He has completed 87 of 155 passes for 902 yards. He has thrown eight touchdown passes and has had two passes intercepted.
Junior Carter Stanley (#9), 6-2, 198 pounds, and sophomore Miles Kendrick (#8), 5-10, 200 pounds, also have seen action at quarterback for Kansas. Stanley has completed 34 of 47 passes for 304 yards. He has thrown three touchdown passes and has had one pass intercepted. Kendrick has completed 11 of 19 passes for 100 yards. He has thrown one touchdown pass.
The leading receiver is senior wide receiver Steven Sims, Jr. (#11), 5-10, 176 pounds. He has 28 receptions for 262 yards, with three touchdowns and a long reception of 37 yards. Senior wide receiver Kerr Johnson, Jr. (#14), 5-11, 193 pounds, has caught 22 passes for 238 yards. He has snared two touchdown passes and a long catch of 31 yards. Senior wide receiver Jeremiah Booker (#88), 6-2, 212 pounds, has 17 receptions for 179 yards and three touchdowns. He has a long catch of 35 yards. Other KU receivers with one touchdown reception each are: Stephen Robinson, Jr. (#5); Daylon Charlot (#2); Kwamie Lassiter II (#83); and Mavin Saunders (#89).
Overall, KU has accumulated 1,306 yards through the air, for an average of 186.6 yard per game.
On the ground Kansas has racked up 1,098 yards, for an average of 156.9 yards per game. The Jayhawks have eight rushing touchdowns. They have fumbled the ball 10 times, losing four of them.
The leading rusher is freshman running back Pooka Williams, Jr (#1), 5-10, 170 pounds. He has run the ball 88 times for 620 yards, for an overage of 103.3 yards per game. He has four rushing touchdowns and a long run of 72 yards. Junior running back Khalil Herbert (#10), 5-9, 210 pounds, has carried the ball 42 times for 245 yards. He has two rushing touchdowns and a long run of 59 yards. Running back Deron Thompson (#26) and quarterback Miles Kendrick each have a rushing touchdown.
Defensively, the Jayhawks gave up 47 points in their three nonconference games. They gave up 160 points in their four conference games.
Kansas has allowed 1,175 rushing yards, for a per-game average of 167.9 yards. Opponents have 10 rushing touchdowns against KU.
Opponents have completed 146 of 226 passes against the Birds, for 1,785 yards, an average of 255 passing yards per game. Opponents have scored 15 touchdowns through the air against Kansas, but the Jayhawks have intercepted 12 enemy passes.
Overall, KU's opponents have accumulated 2,960 total yards, for an average of 422.9 yards of total offense per game. The Jayhawks have given up 26 touchdowns and opponents have scored 18 touchdowns of the 23 times they have scored of the 28 possessions they have had in the Kansas red zone.
Kansas' defense has forced 15 fumbles, recovering nine of them.
The KU defense has been led by senior linebacker Joe Dineen, Jr (#29), 6-2, 235 pounds. He has 83 total tackles. He has 6.5 tackles for loss, two sacks and one interception. Junior safety Bryce Torneden (#1), 5-10, 197 pounds, has 61 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and one interception. Senior linebacker Keith Loneker, Jr (#47), 6-2, 228 pounds, has 47 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss and one sack. Senior defensive tackle Daniel Wise (#96) has three sacks. Senior defensive end Briam Lipscomb (#58) ad sophomore linebacker Kyron Johnson each have two sacks. Junior defensive end Azur Kamara (#5) has one sack.
Junior cornerback Hasan Defense (#13) has an appropriate last name, as he leads the Jayhawks with three interceptions. With one interception each are: junior safety Mike Lee (#11); freshman cornerback Corione Harris (#2); senior cornerback Shakial Taylor (#8); junior safety Jeremiah McCullough (#12); sophomore safety Ricky Thomas (#24); junior cornerback Elmore Hempstead, Jr. (#23); and sophomore safety Davon Ferguson (#7).
Sophomore Kyle Thompson (#80) is the Jayhawks' punter. He is averaging nearly 44 yards per punt. He has not had a punt blocked this season.
Senior Gabriel Rui (#7) is Kansas' field-goal kicker. He has made six of 11 attempts, with a long field goal made of 54 yards. He has not had a kick blocked this season.
Kickoffs are handled by sophomore Liam Jones (#46).
Kansas Football: Kansas football dates from 1890, making it one of the earlier football programs established in the nation. KU's overall record is 584–636–58.
Head coach David Beaty is in his fourth season at the helm of the program. He has a record with the Jayhawks of 5-38. In 2015, Beaty's first season as head coach of the Jayhawks, Kansas finished 0-12 (0-9 in the Big 12, last place). It was the second time in the history of Kansas football that the Jayhawks had gone winless in a season and the first since 1954.
Entering the 2016 season, Kansas had a 15-game losing streak and had lost 38 consecutive games away from home. Kansas won its first game of the season over Rhode Island, 55-6. Later in the season, the Jayhawks beat Texas 24-21. The Jayhawks ended 2016 with a 2-10 record.
The Jayhawks ended 2017 with an 1-11 record, 0-9 Big 12. The 2017 season was Doug Meacham's first year as Kansas' offensive coordinator. Meacham was fired after KU's sixth game of this season.
Along with Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Washington University in St. Louis, Kansas was a charter member of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1907, which evolved into the Big Eight Conference. The Big Eight was folded into the Big 12 in 1996. Kansas is the only member of the original MVIAA that is still part of the Big 12.
The most famous Kansas football player was Gayle Sayers, #48, the "Kansas Comet," who was a Jayhawk from 1962-64. Born in Wichita, Kansas, but raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Sayers graduated from Omaha Central High School and became a two-time All-American at KU. During his Jayhawks career, Sayers rushed for 2,675 yards and gained 3,917 all-purpose yards. In 1963, he set an NCAA Division I record with a 99-yard run against Nebraska. In his senior year, he led the Jayhawks to a 15-14 upset victory over Oklahoma with a 96-yard kickoff return. Sayers is considered by many to have been the greatest open field runner in college football history. Sayers was a first-round pick in the 1965 NFL Draft. He played his entire pro career for the Chicago Bears.
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| Gayle Sayers |
The most successful era for KU football was 1890 to 1932, when the program recorded two undefeated seasons and posted an overall .643 winning percentage. From 1933 to 1968, the Jayhawks continued to find success on the football field, sharing three conference titles and attending their first bowl games. The last conference championship won by Kansas in football was in 1968, when they won the Big Eight. Kansas has appeared in 12 bowl games (6-6), including three trips to the Orange Bowl. Kansas played in the first NCAA-contracted nationally televised regular season college football game on September 20, 1952, against TCU.
From 1969 through the 2014 season, KU's winning percentage dipped to about .400 and 10 of the 11 coaches at the school during the era had losing records. In 2008, under the leadership of Mark Mangino, the #7 Jayhawks were victorious in their first BCS bowl game, the FedEx Orange Bowl, with a 24-21 victory over #3 Virginia Tech. This capstone victory marked the end of the most successful season in school history, as the Jayhawks went 12-1.
George Sauer coached at Kansas from 1946 to 1947. Both of his teams won a share of the Big Six Conference, posting records of 7-2-1 and 8-1-2. His 1947 team was invited to KU's first bowl game, the Orange Bowl, which Kansas lost, 20-14, to Georgia Tech. KU finished the 1947 season ranked #12 in the AP Poll, marking the program's first appearance in a final poll. Sauer left in 1947 to accept the head football coaching position at Navy.
Mark Mangino was head coach at Kansas from 2002-2009. Previously, he was offensive coordinator at Oklahoma. KU had not posted a wining season for six years prior to his arrival. In 2003, his second season at KU, Mangino led the Jayhawks to an appearance in the 2003 Tangerine Bowl, which is now known as Russell Athletic Bowl. This was the first bowl appearance for Kansas since 1995. In 2005, his fourth season at KU, the team finished the regular season 6–5 and went to the Fort Worth Bowl (beat Houston, 42-13), its second bowl game in three seasons. Among the Jayhawks' wins in 2005 was a 40-15 victory over Nebraska, breaking a losing streak that had begun in 1969, which was the second-longest such streak of consecutive losses in NCAA history. In 2007, Mangino coached the Jayhawks to a 12-1 record and the 2008 Orange Bowl (the team's first BCS appearance). The Jayhawks defeated Virginia Tech, 24-21.
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| Mark Mangino |
Mark Mangino became the first KU football coach with a winning career record since J.V. Sikes in 1953. With 50 victories (against 48 losses), Mangino has the second-most victories in Kansas coaching history. In November 2009, the recurring issue of Mangino's alleged misconduct towards his players became the subject of an internal investigation by the University of Kansas Athletic Department. He was formally accused of boorish and violent actions. National sports media coverage of this increased already-mounting public pressure on the university to terminate Mangino's employment. After a prolonged period of negotiations, the university and Mangino's attorneys agreed on the buy-out amount that was large enough to secure his quiet resignation as head football coach in December 2009.
Turner Gill coached at Kansas from 2010-2012. He was the first African American head football coach in KU history. Gill was a former athlete and coach for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, playing football and baseball during his college career and returning as an assistant football coach for 1989, 1992-2004. He also was a former head football coach at Buffalo University. Gill was fired after two seasons at Kansas, with a 5–19 record.
Former Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis followed Gill as the head football coach at Kansas. Weis was fired on September 28, 2014, four games into the 2014 season with a winning percentage of .185 (5–22), the worst of any coach in KU history to that date. Popular Kansas defensive coordinator Clint Bowen was named interim head coach.
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| Charlie Weis |
On December 5, 2014, KU announced the hiring of Texas a&m wide receivers coach David Beaty as its head coach. Bowen remained at KU on the coaching staff as a co-defensive coordinator and assistant head coach.
The University of Kansas has a rivalry with Kansas State called the Sunflower Showdown. When the two teams compete in football, the winner is awarded the Governor's Cup by the governor of Kansas. Kansas leads the all-time series (64–44–5). The two teams first met in 1902 and have played every year since 1911. It is the sixth-longest active series in NCAA college football.
The Kansas-Nebraska series was the longest uninterrupted rivalry in college football until Nebraska's departure for the Big 10 Conference in 2011. Kansas and Nebraska met for the first time in 1892, and faced off annually from 1906 until 2010. Along with the Missouri rivalry, this gave Kansas the second- and third-most played Division I FBS college football series (Minnesota and Wisconsin have played one more game than KU-Missouri and two more than KU-Nebraska). KU is 23–90–3 against the Cornhuskers. From 1969-2004, the Huskers rang up 36 consecutive victories, second-longest in NCAA Division I.
The University of Kansas has a dormant rivalry with Missouri, since Missouri moved to the Southeastern Conference in 2012. Missouri indicated a willingness to continue playing, but Kansas officials expressed no interest. It was known as the oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi River. First played in 1891, the Jayhawks and Tigers met on the gridiron every year after through 2011, except in 1918 (flu epidemic). The game was known as the "Border War," which derived its name from warfare that occurred during the Civil War between free-state "Jayhawkers" and pro-slavery "Bushwhackers" from Missouri. The name of the rivalry was rebranded as the "Border Showdown" in 2004. Each year, the winner of the game was awarded a traveling trophy, the Indian War Drum. Missouri leads the series, 57-54-9.
Kansas Football Stadium: Kansas plays football on campus in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, which is dedicated as a memorial to KU students who died in World War 1.
Opened on October 29, 1921, the stadium is recognized as the first stadium built on a college campus west of the Mississippi River. It is the seventh-oldest collegiate stadium in the nation. Only six other Division I schools -- Cincinnati (1916), Georgia Tech (1913), Mississippi State (1915), Oklahoma State (1920), Washington (1920) and Wisconsin (1917) -- play in older stadiums. Stanford and Tennessee play in stadiums that also opened in 1921.
Located at the north base of Mt. Oread, Memorial Stadium has a capacity of 50,071. On September 5, 2009, a stadium-record crowd of 52,530 fans watched the Jayhawks defeat Northern Colorado.
The stadium was renovated in August 2017 with new seats, a new touchdown club behind the north end zone, and the outside walls with banners. The rim of the northern bowl also had a series of five flagpoles installed on both sides of the scoreboard, with one side set to feature American flags, and one side set to feature the state flag of Kansas.
A prior $31-million renovation added the Anderson Family Football Complex, which is a football practice facility adjacent to the stadium, complete with an indoor partial practice field, weight room, locker room academic areas, an audio-visual room, meeting rooms, a cardio room, a hydro-therapy room, a nutrition area and a display area. It is also joined by new outdoor practice fields to the southeast of the stadium.
The Kansas Board of Regents has approved a $34-million addition of luxury seating on the east side of the stadium. The addition, known as the Gridiron Club, will increase the stadium's capacity by 3,000 seats. Construction has not begun.
In the summer of 2014 the track around the football field was removed and artificial turf was laid in its place. Memorial Stadium used to host the Kansas Relays track and field event. It did so every year from 1923 through 2013, except in 1943, 1944 and 1945, due to World War II, and 1998 and 1999, due to construction. The Relays annually hosted top area high school and intercollegiate competitors. The open events often drew Olympic runners, such as Maurice Greene and Marion Jones. The Kansas Relays is the location where world-record-holder Justin Gatlin tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2006. In 2014, the Kansas Relays left Memorial Stadium and moved to Rock Chalk Park, a new multi-sport complex located southwest of the KU campus.
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