Preview: KU @ Texas

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I preview the Texas game with Crispin Brim on this chilly Halloween night, and touch on how, despite the records, eerily similar the two teams actually are.

Bear Beatdown

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In the KU/Baylor Pregame podcast, I said that good, bad, or indifferent, there shouldn't be too much stock put into the game this past Saturday. Baylor is just that good. So, after watching what ended up being an old fashioned curb stomping from wire to wire, I'd be more than happy to just call the 59-14 Baylor romp water under the bridge. Unfortunately, we can't do that, and Charlie Weis definitely can't do that, so let's see if there are any tangible takeaways from one of the least competitive 59-14 games played in the history of football.

Preview: KU vs. Baylor

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Check out the first official Rock Chalk Rant podcast with Crispin Brim from crispinbrim.com.

Kansas Football: Outside the Lines

KU DB JaCorey Shepherd. Source: KU Sports

I’ll admit, I have been pretty tough on the KU Football team both in The Kansan and in the blogosphere lately, ranting about the wide receivers dropping passes, our secondary blowing assignments, and everything in-between.

Kick in the Gut

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On Saturday, KU played Oklahoma the closest it had played them since Todd Reesing, Jake Sharp, Kerry Meier, Dezmon Briscoe, Joe Mortensen, Mike Rivera, James Holt, and Darrell Stuckey did in 2008. The Hawks fell to the Sooners in Norman on that October day, 45-31, but put up a noble fight against a Sam Bradford led squad. Today was much of the same. KU jumped out early to a 13-0 lead, trailed by only 5 at halftime, 18-13, and trimmed the game to 25-19 Sooners in the fourth quarter, before it all unraveled in the final minutes. As well as Kansas played, this game felt like nothing more than another kick in the gut, and that feeling was only heightened because of how well Kansas played.

Preview: KU vs. Oklahoma

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35-13 Oklahoma

Defending This Defense

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TCU

Preview: KU @ TCU

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Sometime in the next 24 hours, the Kansas Jayhawks will travel to North Texas to face the TCU Horned Frogs in Fort Worth this Saturday, and I will be following closely behind. It's my first road-trip with KU Football since I saw them play in Manhattan in 2009, losing 17-10 to Daniel Thomas and the K-State Wildcats during Todd Reesing's disappointing senior season. I also saw them lose to Colorado a few weeks before that, so as you can tell, I am extremely good luck when travelling with the Jayhawks. Here's hoping this week goes a little differently!

Blue October

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Argh. Texas Tech was an awesome candidate for an upset. This was the conference game I had circled to get the monkey off the Jayhawks back. I even thought that KU had a shot Friday evening, going into Saturday morning. Yes, Tech was unblemished on the year, but outside of a Thursday night home win against TCU, they hadn't been challenged through their first four games. They had tossed SF Austin and Texas State at home, and in front of a pro-Tech crowd in Dallas, the "road" game at SMU was hardly that. You had to figure if KU could get them in a close game outside of the friendly confines of Jones AT&T Stadium, freshman walk-on quarterback Baker Mayfield and head coach Kliff Kingsbury would find themselves in uncharted waters, and that Kansas would expose the reality of some presumably inflated statistics.

Preview: KU vs. Texas Tech

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And today, opportunity presents itself. The 4-0, 20th ranked Texas Tech Red Raiders visit Memorial Stadium today to face the 2-1 Kansas Jayhawks. Kansas comes off the walk-off victory two weeks ago, and Texas Tech hasn't really been challenged all year outside of the TCU victory three weeks ago. It will be a tough challenge for the crimson and blue, but if Kansas wants to break streaks and get over the hump, today might be a nice day to do so.