2018 Kansas Football Results: Nicholls, lost, 26-23; Central Michigan, won, 31-7; Rutgers, won, 55-14; Baylor, lost, 26-7; Oklahoma State, lost, 48-28; West Virginia, lost, 38-22; Texas Tech, lost, 48-16; TCU, won, 27-26; Iowa State, lost 27-3; Kansas State, lost 21-17; Oklahoma, lost, 55-40; Texas, lost 24-17.
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2019 Kansas Football: Les Miles is in his first season as head coach of the Jayhawks.
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| Les Miles |
Over the first four games of the 2019 season, Miles and Kansas are 2-2 (0-1). The Jayhawks have beaten Indiana State (24-17) and Boston College (48-24). They have lost to Coastal Carolina (12-7) and Big 12-foe West Virginia (29-24).
Miles replaced David Beaty, who was the Jayhawks' head coach for four seasons. Beaty was fired after the Jayhawks went 3-9 (1-8 Big 12) in 2018 and 6-42 (2-34 Big 12) during his tenure.
As head coach of Kansas, Miles has returned to the Big. Miles began his head coaching career with Oklahoma State, where he coached from 2001 to 2004, going 28-21, with loses in two of three bowl games.
Miles coached LSU from 2005 to 2016, where he replaced Nick Saban and his Tigers won 114 games. On September 25, 2016, LSU fired Miles after an 18–13 loss to Auburn the previous day and a 2–2 start to begin the season.
In 2007, LSU won the 2007 SEC title and beat Ohio State in that season’s BCS National Championship game, giving Miles his first national championship. LSU won the SEC title in 2011, then lost to Alabama in that season’s BCS National Championship game.
Miles, who had been out of coaching since 2016, hasn’t had a losing season since 2001.
Prior to becoming a head coach, Miles was an assistant coach at Oklahoma State, the University of Michigan, the University of Colorado, and with the Dallas Cowboys.
Through four games, Kansas is outscoring its opponents by an average of over five points a game. The Jayhawks are averaging 25.8 points a game. Their opponents are averaging 20.5 points a game.
Kansas has had a pretty balanced offensive attack. The Birds have passed for 861 yards and rushed for 747 yards. They are averaging 215 yards through the air per game and 186.8 yards per game on the ground, for a per-game average of 402 yards per game. Kansas has scored eight touchdowns through the air and four touchdowns on the ground.
Leading the offensive attack is senior quarterback Carter Stanley (#9), 6-2, 198 pounds. He has completed 72 of 100 passes. He has thrown eight touchdown passes. Four of his passes have been intercepted.
Stanley is not a running quarterback. He only has netted 38 yards on 21 carries through four games. He has been sacked six times.
Kansas' running game is led by senior running back Khalil Herbert (#10), 5-9, 205 pounds. Herbert has carried the ball 43 times for 384 yards. He has two rushing touchdowns and a long run of 82 yards.
Sophomore running back Pooka Williams Jr. (#1), 5-10, 170 pounds, has gained 296 yards on 59 carries. He has scored one touchdown and has a long run of 17 yards.
The Jayhawks' leading receiver is junior wide receiver Andrew Parchment (#4), 6-2, 180 pounds. He has caught 24 passes for 367 yards, an average of 15.3 yards per catch. He has caught four touchdown passes and has a long catch of 75 yards.
Junior wide receiver Stephon Robinson (#5), 5-10, 180 pounds, has 12 receptions for 138 yards, an average of 11.5 yards per catch. He has a long catch of 27 yards and has not scored a touchdown.
Daylon Charlot (#2), a six-foot, 193-pound senior wide receiver, has one touchdown pass among his 11 receptions. He is averaging 12.8 yards per catch.
Wide receiver Kwamie Lassiter II (#8) and tight ends James Sosinski (#82) and Jack Luavasa (#87) each have one touchdown reception.
Kansas' opponents are averaging 375 yards per game (190 passing, 184 ruunning). They have scored five rushing touchdowns and four touchdowns through the air against the Jayhawks.
The Kansas defense has recorded 10 sacks and forced three fumbles.
Defensively, Kansas is led by junior linebacker Dru Prox (#40), 6-1, 215 pounds. He has 34.5 total tackles, including 2.5 tackles for loss and two sacks.
Senior safety Mike Lee (#11), 5-11, 175 pounds, and senior safety Bryce Torneden (#1), 5-10, 192 pounds, each have 21.5 tackles. Torneden also has one tackle for loss and half a sack.
Senior defensive end Darrius Moragne (#97), 6-7, 294 pounds, has 2.5 sacks. Senior linebacker Azur Kamara (#5), 6-4, 235 pounds, has 2.5 sacks. Senior linebacker Najee Stevens-McKenzie (#9), 6-3, 215 pounds, has 4.5 tackles for loss.
Sophomore defensive lineman Malcolm Lee (#99), 6-5, 285 pounds, and senior safety Jeremiah McCullough (#12), 6-0, 190 pounds, each have intercepted a pass.
Junior Kyle Thompson (#80) has been handling the punting chores for the Jayhawks. He has punted 14 times for an average of nearly 45 yards per punt. He has a long punt of 56 yards.
Liam Jones (#46), a junior, is the field-goal kicker. He has made four-of-five attempts, with a long field goal of 36 yards.
Kansas Football History: Kansas football dates from 1890, making it one of the earlier football programs established in the nation.
Kansas Football History: Kansas football dates from 1890, making it one of the earlier football programs established in the nation.
In recent timess, there has been a revolving door of head coaches at Kansas. Les Miles is in his first season as head coach of the Jayhawks.
Over the first four games of the 2019 season, Miles and Kansas are 2-2 (0-1). The Jayhawks have beaten Indiana State and Boston College. They have lost to Coastal Carolina and Big 12-foe West Virginia.
Miles replaced David Beaty, who was the Jayhawks' head coach for four seasons. Beaty was fired after the Jayhawks went 3-9 (1-8 Big 12) in 2018 and 6-42 (2-34 Big 12) during his tenure.
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.
As head coach of Kansas, Miles has returned to the Big. Miles began his head coaching career with Oklahoma State, where he coached from 2001 to 2004, going 28-21, with loses in two of three bowl games.
Miles coached LSU from 2005 to 2016, where he replaced Nick Saban and his Tigers won 114 games. On September 25, 2016, LSU fired Miles after an 18–13 loss to Auburn the previous day and a 2–2 start to begin the season.
In 2007, LSU won the 2007 SEC title and beat Ohio State in that season’s BCS National Championship game, giving Miles his first national championship. LSU won the SEC title in 2011, then lost to Alabama in that season’s BCS National Championship game.
Miles, who had been out of coaching since 2016, hasn’t had a losing season since 2001.
Prior to becoming a head coach, Miles was an assistant coach at Oklahoma State, the University of Michigan, the University of Colorado, and with the Dallas Cowboys.
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 Gale Sayers, #48, the "Kansas Comet," who was a Jayhawk from 1962-64.
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| Gale Sayers |
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, Sayers 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.
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.
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| George Sauer |
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.
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 Beaty as its head coach. Beaty had been teh wide receivers coach at Texas A&M. 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.
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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