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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 2011
THE UNIVERSITY
KANSAS 24, GE
Kansas 17 | 7-24 Georgia Tech 24 | 42-66
Javhawk Stat Leaders
Webb
Passing 148
Miller
Rushing 54
Beshears
Receiving 65
Kansas
Passing Cmp-Att Int Yds TD Long
Jordan Webb 11-19 0 148 0 42
Rushing No Yds TD Long
Darrian Miller 11 53 2 42
James Sims 11 40 0 19
Rell Lewis 10 27 0 9
Tony Pierson 6 18 0 8
Jordan Webb 3 16 0 12
Receiving No Yds TD Long
D.J Beshears 5 65 0 42
Tim Biere 3 40 0 28
Andre Turzilli 3 37 1 14
Kicking FG Long XP
Alex Mueller 1/1 28 3/3
Punting No. Yds Avg Long In20
Ron Doherty 7 330 47.1 51 1
Georgia Tech
Passing Cmp-Att Int Yds TD Long
Team 4-7 0 164 2 67
Rushing No. Gain TD Long Avg
Team 50 604 17 95 12.1
Receiving No. Yds TD Long
Team 4 164 2 67
Kicking FG Long XP
Team 1/1 24 9/9
Punting No. Yds Avg Long In20
Team 1 37 37 37 1
Georgia Tech
RESULTS
*all games in bold are at home
DATE OPPONENT RESULT
SEPT. 3 MCNEESE STATE W, 42-24
SEPT.10 NORTHERN ILLINOIS W, 45-42
SEPT. 17 GEORGA TECH L, 66-24
NEXT GAME
OCT. 1
TEXAS TECH
FOOTBAL
Freshman running back Darrian Miller loses his shoe as he sprints down the field and scores a touchdown during the first half of Saturday's game at Bobby Dodd Stadium against Georgia Tech. Miller rushed 11 times for 54 yards and two touchdowns in the Jayhawks 24-66 loss to Georgia Tech. KU is now 2-1 for the season.
CHRIS BRONSON/KANSAN
A shootout in the first half becomes a blowout later
ETHAN PADWAY
epadwav@kansan.com
ATLANTA - In a game that looked like a firefight at the outset, the Jayhawks ran out of ammunition.
After keeping Kansas within a touchdown in the first half, the offense seemed like it never emerged from the locker room after halftime, getting shut out and amassing just 45 yards and two first downs in the third quarter of their 66-24 loss to Georgia Tech.
"Honestly I feel like it was a shootout going into the second half," freshman running back Darrian Miller said. "Then once a team picks up momentum, its
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hard to stop that, especially at home. They were feeling it and we weren't answer-
On the offense's first drive of the second half, it needed to respond after Georgia Tech running back Embry Peebles broke a 63-yard touchdown run
That started a pattern that continued throughout the quarter.
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Instead, Miller and sophomore running back James Sims ran up the middle twice to put the offense in a third and long. On third down, pressure forced sophomore quarterback Jordan Webb to scramble from the pocket and he tried to force the ball to junior receiver Kale Pick, but it was bated away and the ball fell harmlessly to the turf.
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Jayhawk rushes ran the ball 10 times and averaged just 2.5 yards per carry in the third quarter and the Jayhawks failed to convert any of their four third down attempts.
version rate starkly contrasted the first half, when Kansas converted 70 percent of its third downs.
"We were answering the toll every time we came on the field."
Webb said. "There were a couple of times where we were backed up and just didn't get out of it. We played pretty well in the first half and in the second half we just couldn't keep that momentum going."
Passes that Webb completed
DARRIAN MILLER freshman running back
in the first half started to drop in the second. In the second quarter, senior tight end Tim Biere made a spectacular third down catch along the sidelines. He kept control of the ball to the ground and the completion led to Miller's 11-yard touchdown run.
In the third quarter, that catch wasn't made, as Webb threw two third-down passes Biere's way. On both occasions, Biere was past the first down marker, but he couldn't haul either of them in and the Jayhawk offense relinquished the field to the Yellow Jackets.
Georgia Tech went on to score on both ensuing possessions. All the offense could do was watch
"The they just executed better than we did," Gill said. "You don't want to have a whole lot of third downs and we did. We weren't able to get a lot of
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plays on first down, as far as positive yardage, to get us out of that long yardage on third down, that makes it tough on us."
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