Continuing the discussion that Jballer started in the News Feeds, I'm enjoying the positive attention that KU football is getting: "Jason Bean is faster on the field than Tyreek Hill." I love it. Like Texas-Hawk 10 points out, it's time for Lance and the team to take the next step and win the road games. That starts tonight with IState. If KU can eliminate the TOs, it will do just fine against an IState team that has enjoyed a very weak Big 12 schedule. Tied for first in the Big 12; give me a break. I can't believe we are underdogs tonight. The Homecoming win over the See You Laters was great. Being bowl eligible again is great. Now, let's beat the Cyclones and ruin their homecoming festivities. Come on Lance and Andy, win with this game with solid play and no failed, silly trick plays.

@stoptheflop Coach LL has a road conference win each of his first 2 seasons. Which is incredible when you look at the overall road losing streak and the conference ones by his predecessors. Let’s go get one tonight fellas!

KU just needs to take care of the ball. no stupid turnovers. They do that -we win, a I just don't think ISU qill be ble to shut us down totally

We’re going to be able to stop them just fine. My question is the run game

Really hoping to see Hishaw the Hammer lay some hurt on the D, then Neal and Bean use their quickness to keep KU's ground game moving.

@FarmerJayhawk said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

We’re going to be able to stop them just fine. My question is the run game

Not going to be easy but yet I think we can run, if we do that we win. I'm worried about Jason forcing passes into double coverage , or just really bad pass period. - He needs to RUN , RUN , RUN.

Daniels not with the team?

@KirkIsMyHinrich redshirt bound IMO. Still has a game to play and maybe a bowl if the NCAA does the waiver again

@FarmerJayhawk Transferring?

Pretty excited to watch this game tonight. KU football is must watch stuff these days.

@KirkIsMyHinrich absolutely not

@FarmerJayhawk Good good

Just checked box score. Oubre had 25, Joel 28, averaging 30, a double double machine and dishing 7 times a game. It'd be fun to watch the Sixers play in the finals next spring.

@wissox said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Just checked box score. Oubre had 25, Joel 28, averaging 30, a double double machine and dishing 7 times a game. It'd be fun to watch the Sixers play in the finals next spring.

Marcus Morris is with Jo , Jo and the sixers now too through a trade

Dang it; another late start. Where is everyone going to watch the start?

@jayballer67 Thanks, didn't realize.

@stoptheflop Common sense would say we're throwing this blowout game to the ESPN App so you can watch the beginning of your game on ESPN.

Espnu

Kick? Why kick when you got these weapons.

Nice catch

Like the aggressive open

Is this rg3

PI??

Ah yes

Lets have the wheat crimson

@wissox said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Lets have the wheat crimson

cancel that :(

Why decline Lance? It'd be first and goal at the same spot.

Nice drive. Nice start. Way to go Jayhawks

No flags?

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Great challenge gives us the ball instead of continuing ISU drive. Great start to this one.

Wow scored in the red against 12

Good start

What the heck RG3 wearing?

@wissox looked like a cocker spaniel pelt

@DanR said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

@wissox looked like a cocker spaniel pelt

LOL. That would get the PETA folk talking!

Whoa! D looks good!

Remember when ku wore turf shoes in the blizzard at Ames a few years ago. That was ugly

Pi’d him twice

Probably a TD if he doesn't do that.

KU has got to get the rush going

Didn’t look that bad on replay tbh

Up the gut doesn’t look promising

That was an ice storm or they did something to the field to make it slick? We slid all over!

Could he run it?dang it!

Jason could’ve ran for ten yards there. Missed FG, big Mo swing there

Keller has to be hurt or something because this is not him

Nice 3 straight defensive stops.

Bean has to stop throwing into double and triple coverage

OUCH, 3 and out isn't going to get a W.

Play some D and regroup on O. Running on first down isn’t working

MELLO

Perfect

Dumb penalty you goofball

Wow, who are these guys on the KU D? Wow

People avoiding throwing the ball to Cobee, Melo says okay then.

Coach won't be happy w/that!

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Things keep happening that make me stop and think, 'am I really watching KU football?'

What was the penalty for?

Helmet off

So does he have to sit out a play on top of the penalty for taking off the hat?

@Crimsonorblue22 Yes, dumb, but why is it even a penalty? I know why it is, but penalizing guys for celebrating is really pretty much dumber.

Rules, I guess. On Mello right there

Well that was bad

Too late to review! Too bad too sad.

I don’t think he stepped out. Oh well

It was his left foot

@DanR I'm surprised they didn't challenge but maybe they saw something. Big call in our favor possibly.

Probably not an angle that shows it well enough to overturn

Runs like a supermodel if his left foot was out

Who remembers "You make the Call." What will ISt do here: Kick FG or go for it?

Fg

The one angle we saw there was players in the way so hard to say

It was right in front of them.

ISU fans can break it down. Im moving on

Punt

KU playing some D tonight.

RG3 cracks me up

You guys see that Beans Td run was faster than tyreek or anybody in the last 4 yrs in the nfl?

@kjayhawks I like him

@Crimsonorblue22 world class speed if he’d gone with track

Tripped

Refs ignored that big time PI

Like they stopped throw flags at ISU because they already have so many

Not sure what constitutes PI sometimes. light contact there but it prevented Grimm from 6 points. Should have been called

We need this one. If we get the stop we can wipe away the half then we get it out of the break

Get the stop. Score again and then get the ball to start the second half

17 yds rushing so far. I think Bean needs to run some options.

Great D

Gotta get the run game going now

Awesome, let's get something moving on O now

Finally a good run

Ku gets a lot of late whistles

Get well soon Daniel

Same way he got hurt last year. No whistle and got dogpiled

Why do we keep slipping on this field?

Lush grass

Surprised by that call.

@wissox said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Why do we keep slipping on this field?

Before the game the announcers said its cut longer than most fields. They said players needed to change their spikes.

Go for it

We have to Change our cleats

Kicking is shit. Might as well have gone for a deep pass or something

Leaving points on the field, need a big stop here

Snyder hmmmmm?

Get another pic

Come on D. Finish the half

Dead?

Not dead, just mello

That doesn’t look good

Arm rubs not compressions

Rewound it. Looked like mellow hit his head pretty hard

That’s an incomplete pass

That should be incomplete

@DanR on the turf?

Run it back!

I'm really disappointed with the offense. The defense was great. KU must find a way to get the ground game going

Damn good half overall

Did cobee come back?

We are good, get some points to start this half. Let stop trying long FGs the only reason they have 3 because we didn’t punt

@kjayhawks said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Jason could’ve ran for ten yards there. Missed FG, big Mo swing there

should of ran. - we got to get our running game going , we need it. I don't trust 4 quarters of Jason passing We have just GOT TO get the run game moving. you can't expect them to do it all.

I truly believe we score another TD gonna be hard on ISU , but let's score a couple more and leave no doubt.- we only have 149 yards of total offense. - -Iowa st only 121, don't play with fire, we got lucky on that kickoff return

I just don't trust 4 quarters of passing from Jason - -that's why we got to get this running game going

Looking a lot like last year’s defensive battle at this point. Go out and get a TD to start the half. It could be enough to win although I’m worried about our best 2 corners going down

Hishaw out?

@Crimsonorblue22 I wouldn't be surprised. We took some serious hits late in that half. Dotson, Bryant, Hishaw all potentially out for the 2nd half.

HiShaw is ok

We need to take this opening drive and score

Arnold!

Thanks ISU!

Found a flag finally

They're getting po'd at isu

Crap!

Looked ahead

Yeah!

The turf worked for us as the defender slipped that time

Still got guys slipping

Do they screw up the field on purpose?

Water it?

Nice start to the second half. RC

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Neal would’ve been in from 99

What a punch in the mouth drive that was!!

Did Hishaw get a first down even without the penalty?

Perfect drive to start the half, let’s go D

HUGE

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Did Hishaw get a first down even without the penalty?

Looked like he was body slammed beyond the sticks

@wissox said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

What a punch in the mouth drive that was!!

hUGE , JUST SMACKED THEM-- - THAT'S GOOD

One tough dude! Do u watch Hawk talk?

Hawks

Weird fair catch

Come on.

IDK, should we just change it to flag football now?

Not on that lush grass

Ok didn’t see 7 at first

Mello's side

Goodness 3 3rd and a miles convert

To easy!

@stoptheflop ask and ye shall receive

Danger zone. Need an answer

10 minute drive. Not the worst

Missing Dotson

Well we help on that drive with the roughing the passer. Just got to take care of the ball no dumb mistakes. Jason not force

Gotta keep scoring! TD's

@FarmerJayhawk said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Danger zone. Need an answer

Nice time consuming drive would be great - -answer right back

LOL, ESPN showing beloved dsanders and colorado at 9. Our game will probably finish closer to 10! Wanna bet there's some execs there in Bristol saying let's get the Colorado game on and boot these guys to the app or something?

I’d like to see Bean use his jets at least once on this drive

This play calling ffs

Two runs up the middle for 2 yds. Come on Andy

Skinner shuts em up.

Hell of a catch

Great hands and tall

Stop that

Could’ve been a few more flags

Oh boy

Oooh boy

RB was wide open in the flat

Literally wasted 4 plays so far on this drive up the gut

What the heck refs?

Wtf 3 missed PIs now

Help us D!

Do the zebras wives know they’re fucking us

Hold!

Clip hold chop all of the above

Cheap shot for the flag

Isu is playing Uber dirty

Throw his ass out

They're dirty!

Long tv time out

Wow, that was a really dirty hit.

3rd down defense wtf

Need a turnover

D is great 3 out of 4 plays

Rocco due for a pick

Team looks tired

That no call on the PI looms large right now.

we are now in trouble

@wissox which one?

Brother!🤮

Like watching a replay of the OSU game lead the whole game and piss it away

@FarmerJayhawk Well I understand your point but the most recent that led to this drive and robbed us of being 1st and 10 around their 40 if I remember correctly.

Offense needs to sustain a drive now. Big Mo is all on ISU side.

this is where we see if the guys have a pir or not. - -it's time to see if this is so , so team or a solid team - - Can't say Great team but at least solid.- - Watch them try running the first two down and get nothing or turn it over

Need a long drive and to actually run the ball, defense needs a rest

Boom

I’ll take it!

OMG - -well they didn't run lol

HELL YEAH

I've never screamed louder for a KU game in my whole life (maybe)

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Awesome but no rest for the defense lol

SMACK- - - BOO-YA

GET REKT CLONES

But what I really wanted was an eight minute drive. They can score and we can still try that next time

I just want to piss them off

wHAT AN aNSWER

RG III has been decent today imo

The defense has been making them work, their last two drives took 6 minutes. We just can’t let them score fast or not at all.

I’ve seen worse non calls in this game

Huh apparently they do know what a PI is

Pic that dang ball!

Our D has never been known to be stout.

Blatant hold downfield

Still think Rocco is due to throw a pick

@DanR now it’s time for a loooong drive

That’s okay, hopefully we can run and milk this thing. Defense is tired been on the field a ton this half.

Is there a reason why we aren't using our tight ends?

Now we need a drive, --now Jason has to play smart don't force anything

@jayballer67 and run the damn football

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Is there a reason why we aren't using our tight ends?

That's a very good question. ---Where is FairChild

Lassiter is bad, but obviously wouldn't be out there normally. Just hold on plz :folded_hands:

No up the gut!

@FarmerJayhawk said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

@jayballer67 and run the damn football

ISU has been selling out for the run. We haven't been able to run consistently at all unfortunately.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Is there a reason why we aren't using our tight ends?

They’re blocking mostly. Time to free Casey for a passing route

Holding them to a fg makes me feel better.

@BShark there are some edges available

First and ten

Fear the reaper

Huge catch and throw

I don't think I've ever seen a team more pathetic on first down. Jeez

@stoptheflop I seem to remember a first down about 5 minutes ago when we gained 80 yards.

Scramble bean and let him run

They have 1 TO left?

@Crimsonorblue22 Yes. Used one early in the 3rd

@wissox said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

@stoptheflop I seem to remember a first down about 5 minutes ago when we gained 80 yards.

Yeah, lulled them into thinking we’d run it up the gut again. Set that up much to my frustration

Get a first down here and it’s all but over

Put Arnold in

washington 42. usc 42 in the 3rd. sounds like a fun one.

PLAINVILLE STAND UP

Luke Leipold Magic!!

Casey!!!!

That's were my hubby played, all state.

Over wooohooo.

Awesome win!

Well it wasn't pretty, but that is a great W

7-2

Great win.

Amazing

@stoptheflop said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Well it wasn't pretty, but that is a great W

I will take any conference road win. Especially against a real conference team (still not counting the new guys from G5)

That's called progress , - - -HUGE WIN - - HUGE

That was a risky play call on that 3rd down, perfect execution. Great game by Jason and the defense was pretty salty til they got tired and some of that is just the depth we don’t have.

I was wondering about Trevor Wilson. He got hit in the head after his fumble on the kickoff last week.

@kjayhawks best hands Jared Casey?

Total homer job that we ended up with more penalties than them.

Awesome game! Great play by the offense at the end seemed to inflate the defense. Anyone hurt today?

Mello Dotson. Trevor still hurt

@Gorilla72 my liver.

But seriously, Mello went down earlier. Looked like a concussion

This is a huge win for Kansas. Clinching a winning record for the first time in 15 years and a road win against what's likely going to be a bowl team from the Big 12 in a very long time.

Dotson had the pick 6?

@FarmerJayhawk definitely a head thing

Big 12 needs to check isu field management. 🙄

We won a game while ranked

Jared Casey got up on that catch! I'm watching post game! Only throw and catch to a tight end

@KirkIsMyHinrich do we move up?

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

@kjayhawks best hands Jared Casey?

That’s what they said.

Luke Grimm seems to be clutch.

We were actually 3 point dogs in this one. I got to give credit to Defensive Coordinator Brian Borland. I was thinking this was a lake or break year for him with the defense being one of the worse in CFB the last 2 years. Still can see some depth issues but that expected with our current talent group.

@Crimsonorblue22 we will be a top 20 team come Tuesday. Swept KSU volleyball so they will stay in the top 20 and Basketball is obviously number 1 for now.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

@KirkIsMyHinrich do we move up?

I don't know this is kind of new to me. I... I think we do.

But really it will probably depend on what some teams ahead of us do. If USC loses to Washington tonight for example.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

@KirkIsMyHinrich do we move up?

We likely jump Notre Dame since they've already lost. If USC loses, we'll jump them. We should also be cheering for Colorado and Arizona to win tonight as well and KU could potentially jump up several spots.

How does Alex Grinch still have a job

@FarmerJayhawk said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

How does Alex Grinch still have a job

He's stealing money at this point

We should jump OU IMO, same record and we beat them recently. I personally think the B12 doesn’t have a top 10 team, Maybe a healthy Texas. We actually need help getting to Arlington at this point, even winning out we need losses for Texas and OSU.

@kjayhawks I can see isu beating Texas with Murphy as qb, don't they play them?

Just had to strap it up. Hardly anyone was giving us a chance to win. I actually thought we had a decent chance -BUT I also thought we would be able to run the ball.- -Jason Bean needs a little love, nothing fancy , spectular, just solid tonight

Have a chance for a really good Season. I think 9 wins is for sure withing our reach.- - K/State is going to be hard , but Texas Tech & Cincinnati very otainable.

I know also that we better batten down the forth and do whatever w need to do to hang onto our Coach - -and this staff-- they gonna be coming trying to take Coach. Whatever it takes

Side note it was nice to have a game in November in Ames that wasn’t in frigid temperatures with a wind.

How about Jason Bean? This guy has almost made us forget about Jalon Daniels. He keeps doing things like beating OU for the first time since Clinton (Bill, not Hillary), beating ISU for the first time since Bush. Although the announcers couldn't stop talking about the freshman QB for the Tornados Jason was making clutch play after clutch play. The touch on some of those throws, while not surprising, was sublime. He was robbed out of another TD pass by a non PI call which Grimm would have strolled into the end zone with ease had he not been held.

While I complained about the refs they did say the dude stepped out of bounds after the long kick return even though none of us saw it. After that long return our D held, forced a punt. Big time D. When momentum was on ISU's and ESPNs side and they were driving to a TD to make it a 3 point game, the D stiffened and forced a FG. Huge play, giving us some breathing room that even if we couldn't run down the clock they'd only be competing for a tying TD instead of either a go ahead TD or tying FG.

Yeah, ISU played like a bunch of losers who realized the only way to beat us was to try to hurt us.

LanceCOY

@kjayhawks said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

We should jump OU IMO, same record and we beat them recently. I personally think the B12 doesn’t have a top 10 team, Maybe a healthy Texas. We actually need help getting to Arlington at this point, even winning out we need losses for Texas and OSU.

KU needs two losses from each which is unlikely because each has the tiebreaker over KU.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Jared Casey got up on that catch! I'm watching post game! Only throw and catch to a tight end

I'm going to fondly remember Big Play Jared Casey as one of my favorite Jayhawks. That first down catch sealed the win. Awkward pass from Bean, but Big Play Casey hauled it in. Now KU gets TT Red Raiders at home next Saturday. I'm fine with Jason Bean and I no longer pay any attention to speculation about Jalen's back injury. This is Bean's team and Bean's season.

@wissox said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

When momentum was on ISU's and ESPNs side and they were driving to a TD to make it a 3 point game, the D stiffened and forced a FG.

RGIII was terrible, but I didn’t find him biased.

@dylans he had a pretty sweet hat though

I love RG3

Ranked 17th!

@Crimsonorblue22 I don't want this to sound like a slam, but if our qb would quit overthrowing wide open receivers we'd be a lot higher than that.

Not a slam. Just truth.

I do always wonder why there isn’t more transparent accountability for refs. They were TERRIBLE last night. The ISU return did not look like he stepped out, I remember three pretty blatant PI on third down that didn’t get called, the grim one being the most egregious. And how long did they review that “fumble” that they had to overturn into what was CLEARLY an incomplete pass? Low hit on beans knee, questionable roughing the passer calls on both sides, just a big ole stinker from the officials that game.

@nuleafjhawk said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

@Crimsonorblue22 I don't want this to sound like a slam, but if our qb would quit overthrowing wide open receivers we'd be a lot higher than that.

Not a slam. Just truth.

We'd also have at least one more win if he didn't have a habit of throwing into double or triple coverage consistently as well.

@nuleafjhawk that’s what is so frustrating about Jason. He led the B12 in QBR this week and was just fantastic outside of 2 throws. Against Texas he had the worse QBR of any power 5 starter this season and OSU wasn’t a lot better. Just have to hope he has found his stride and will get a us some more wins. We are still very lucky to have him on our roster.

@kjayhawks That’s one way to get to average. One extreme after the other.

For me, I'm just going to enjoy and accept Jason Bean for all his faults and successes. KU is 7-2, ranked 19 and two of the next three games are against easier opponents. If anyone would have predicted in August 2022 that KU would have been this successful, I would have laughed and called them crazy. I'm really glad Jason suck around this year. He gives us our best chance to win every remaining game.

@stoptheflop 19 in AP

I think that was Bean's best game yet. His short passes were accurate. His touch passes were accurate. He's always accurate with the long passes.

He managed the game consistently. Really could not ask for a much better performance.

I think we have to give @Kcmatt7 some credit for a pretty good preseason prediction... flipped the Okie teams, but otherwise spot on.

/topic/12987

Hope he's dead wrong about KSU and we win out.

I' ll ask this- -was anyone else sweating little gold nuggets when Jason went down and look like he was hurt/leg injury ? - -I'm not to proud to admit I thought - - -DAM WE ARE DONE. - - ANYONE ELSE ?

I think KU can make the CCG if they win out, Oklahoma wins out, and Texas drops a game at Iowa St.

That would put Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma in a 7-2 triangle. It would then come down to record against best common opponent, which is likely going to be Iowa St, who Kansas and Oklahoma beat and Texas lost to. Then Kansas has the head-to-head against Oklahoma.

Oklahoma by the way has home games vs West Virginia and TCU and a road game at BYU, so they have a decent shot at winning out.

I doubt Iowa St can beat Texas, but with the game in Ames and if Ewers isn't playing, they have a shot.

@KirkIsMyHinrich said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

I think KU can make the CFP if they win out, Oklahoma wins out, and Texas drops a game at Iowa St.

That would put Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma in a 7-2 triangle. It would then come down to record against best common opponent, which is likely going to be Iowa St, who Kansas and Oklahoma beat and Texas lost to. Then Kansas has the head-to-head against Oklahoma.

That would be awesome if that happened BUT I don't see much of a way Teas losing to Iowa St. -- Defensively Iowa St might give them some trouble BUT offensively I don't see any way Iowa State is going to be able to outscore Texas and or handle Texas D-Line. - -Iowa State had trouble running against us - - -they not running on Texas which makes them very one dimensional and that will put Rocco Beck left running for his life. - -I just can't see anyway. Actually I'd be surprised if Texas didn't win that game by 3 scores

CCG I mean, not CFP lol

@jayballer67 said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

@KirkIsMyHinrich said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

I think KU can make the CFP if they win out, Oklahoma wins out, and Texas drops a game at Iowa St.

That would put Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma in a 7-2 triangle. It would then come down to record against best common opponent, which is likely going to be Iowa St, who Kansas and Oklahoma beat and Texas lost to. Then Kansas has the head-to-head against Oklahoma.

That would be awesome if that happened BUT I don't see much of a way Teas losing to Iowa St. -- Defensively Iowa St might give them some trouble BUT offensively I don't see any way Iowa State is going to be able to outscore Texas and or handle Texas D-Line. - -Iowa State had trouble running against us - - -they not running on Texas which makes them very one dimensional and that will put Rocco Beck left running for his life. - -I just can't see anyway. Actually I'd be surprised if Texas didn't win that game by 3 scores

Same... But that's at least a scenario that Kansas can get in with Texas only losing one time. If Ewers isn't playing Texas might have trouble scoring on Iowa St, who does have a good defense.

@KirkIsMyHinrich said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

@jayballer67 said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

@KirkIsMyHinrich said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

I think KU can make the CFP if they win out, Oklahoma wins out, and Texas drops a game at Iowa St.

That would put Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma in a 7-2 triangle. It would then come down to record against best common opponent, which is likely going to be Iowa St, who Kansas and Oklahoma beat and Texas lost to. Then Kansas has the head-to-head against Oklahoma.

That would be awesome if that happened BUT I don't see much of a way Teas losing to Iowa St. -- Defensively Iowa St might give them some trouble BUT offensively I don't see any way Iowa State is going to be able to outscore Texas and or handle Texas D-Line. - -Iowa State had trouble running against us - - -they not running on Texas which makes them very one dimensional and that will put Rocco Beck left running for his life. - -I just can't see anyway. Actually I'd be surprised if Texas didn't win that game by 3 scores

Same... But that's at least a scenario that Kansas can get in with Texas only losing one time. If Ewers isn't playing Texas might have trouble scoring on Iowa St, who does have a good defense.

ya, never say neve I reckon, I mean that's why w play the games right ?

I would have to look at this more, but it also might be possible for Kansas to make the CCG if Kansas wins out, Oklahoma wins out, and then Texas loses to any opponent. That would again create a 3-way circle of suck between Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. If Texas drops a game to TCU or Texas Tech (again unlikely) then it would come down to win percentage against the best common opponent, in which case everyone would have beaten Iowa St. Then it would come down to win percentage against all common conference opponents, which I think would only be BYU and Iowa St who we all will have beaten in that scenario... So then it would come down to combined winning percentage of all conference opponents in conference games. Right now Kansas' B12 opponent record is 28-26, Texas' B12 opponent record is 27-27, and Oklahoma's B12 opponent record is 27-27, and that includes records for teams we haven't played yet.

So tldr it might be possible if we win out, Oklahoma wins out, and Texas loses any of their remaining games.

Honestly I just want beat KSU and win a bowl game. Hopefully we win out but those 2 games are more important to me.

@DanR At least I picked us to beat OU! But then predicted the letdown at ISU. Had us at 7-5 which now would be a disappointment.

Well, hell after holding on by fingernails for the win at ISt, KU must find a way to get past Tex Tech. Was ISt's rush defense that good or did our Oline just flat out fail to make the trip? Please tell me Neal and Hit-em-in-the-Mouth Hishaw will get back to world domination on Saturday. TT has the 5th best overall defense in the B12; Kansas is 9th. TT's rush defense is 7th in the B12 at 141/gm. KU favored by 3.5 thanks to playing at home. Let's just hope this doesn't come down to making a FG for the win.

@stoptheflop yeah ISU’s defense is capital G Good.

@stoptheflop said in KU Football is Now Relevant. Take the Next Step Tonight.:

Well, hell after holding on by fingernails for the win at ISt, KU must find a way to get past Tex Tech. Was ISt's rush defense that good or did our Oline just flat out fail to make the trip? Please tell me Neal and Hit-em-in-the-Mouth Hishaw will get back to world domination on Saturday. TT has the 5th best overall defense in the B12; Kansas is 9th. TT's rush defense is 7th in the B12 at 141/gm. KU favored by 3.5 thanks to playing at home. Let's just hope this doesn't come down to making a FG for the win.

Iowa Stat defense really good. - it's not just KU run they have shut down, they are like 2nd in the Big 12 in rushing defense. Actually their secondary was suppose to be pretty good too but Jason did pretty well against them.

Now as far as Texas Tech our D needs to stand up, get those stops, Texas Tech has potent run game, their running back /Brooks has rushed for 1,037 yards & averages 115.2 yards per game, really strong elusive back. - They got their starting QB back not to shabby Morten he has been back for a couple of games now has 978 yards for the year not extremely over accurate on completions but good enough 61.9 % and a QBR of 108.7 - -10 TD"s & 2 INT'S - - Defense has got to be ready to come to play - -not going to be easy. With us being at home & our Coah's I'll take our chance .

At the very least they are going to have to show a lil more respect for our passing game! Bean and our super receivers!

Really huge recruiting visits next week vs K/Straight. -- they was ask numbers wise or talent wise & they said BOTH.. -- In the podcast Kirby who has followed kids said he has been doing this since like 1998 - -evaluating talent & he was saying KU fans ought to be stoked about our defensive end dual that we got coming in next year - -saying these guys are really good. - - Warner & Brinkley make quite the pair of edge rushers.

Our RB room ought to be well represented again - -Probably have Hishaw back - -not sure about Neal - -BUT Martel - - Johny Thompson - -& Stewart looks pretty dam solid - Thompson has got some moves/speed