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Even though most players won't fess up to being personally bothered by predictions and chatter about the team, freshman safety Keeston Terry didn't shy away from admitting that it bothers them.
ing said in the media and used it as motivation.
"We all kind of take it personal," Terry said. "All we can do is not listen to what people say, go out, play hard and win the game."
Not only is it rare for a non Bowl Championship Series (BCS) qualifying team to be the favorite when playing a school in a bigger conference, it's even more rare for that smaller school to be favored on the road.
There's no question that Northern Illinois is a quality team. It finished 11-3 last season and won its conference. Its quarterback broke single season and career total yards records that had lasted for 47 years.
And that's what matters to Kansas, not the predictions and not the underdog talk. What does matter is what transpires on the field for 60 minutes of playing time Saturday.
"No matter what happens, if we're the underdog or picked to win by 27, were going to go out there and play our hardest," sophomore safety Tyler Patron said.
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The Jayhawks struggled to contain the McNeese State passing attack, allowing 325 yards. Now they face Harnish, who holds the record for most yards of total offense in Northern Illinois history.
"It was just the first game jitters, finally getting back into play. I think we should be fine this week," freshman safety Keeston Terry said
Against Army, Harnish spread the ball around, throwing touchdowns to five different receivers, including a 58-yard touchdown pass to junior running back Jamal Wombel.
That should be especially concerning to Kansas, as McNeese State junior running back Champlain Babin led the Cowboys with 108 yards receiving against the lavwhaws
"Right now I feel like our mind is on screens. We kind of got beat on a lot of screens
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last game and I know NIU took a screen to the house against Army, just focus on that, don't overdo it, because I know we can defend the screen, we just got into a bad position against McNeese," Johnson said.
Despite winning their first game, Kansas will enter their contest with Northern Illinois at Memorial Stadium as a seven point underdog.
"I try not to think about that, I just go game by game. Our strength coach calls it a one game season. Alright we had a season last week and we're one and zero. Alright we have a season this week, let's go one and zero," Johnson said.
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Humanitarian Bowl. Last week in their opener, they put up 49 points against Army, a touchdown more than Kansas scored against FCS opponent McNeese State. Its top two running backs each averaged 9.9 and 7.3 yards per carry, and their quarterback, senior Chandler Harnish, threw for five touchdowns. So yeah, Northern Illinois is good. Good enough for Vegas oddsmakers to make them nearly a touchdown favorite in Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
Kansas football is still a year or two away from doing any kind of damage in whatever conference it will be in, but a 2-0 start that includes an early upset could do wonders for a young team looking to firmly remove that rearview mirror from its perch.
— Edited by Lindsey Deiter
sophomore quarterback Jordan Webb averaged more than 20 yards a completion, including three touchdown passes that were all more than 25 yards.
"I think the other thing that's going to be important for us is making sure that we have a 2-to-1 ratio when it comes to big plays," Gill said. "I'm talking about 20 yards or more that we need to be 2-to-1 ratio as far as our big plays in our favor versus them with the plus 20 yards."
Kansas ran the same amount of plays as McNeese State on Saturday, had the ball for nearly ten minutes less, and scored 18 more points than its opponent.
Coach Turner Gill and his staff would like to see a similar effort from their team this Saturday against Northern Illinois.
Offensive coordinator Chuck Long said the big plays that were present Saturday were missing from the offense last season.
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Sophomore quarterback
"Big plays are huge in college football," Long said. "It's very
opened the second possession with a 30-yard run. The freshmen running backs added play-
making capabilities as well.
Darrian Miller averaged 4.8
yards a carry and Tony Pierson
averaged 14.6 yards a carry.
"We feel like we have a running game that is built for explosive plays," Webb said. "We can get the 70 and 60 yarders out of the running game just as easy as the passing game."
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Even though the run-game is full of playmakers, the receivers are without one of their top players. Senior Daymond
Freshman receiver JaCorey Shepherd, who caught three passes for 107 yards and two touchdowns in his Kansas debut, will replace Patterson with his 4.5 speed.
"When you look at steady offenses like that in the past, they are traditionally run-play action pass teams and a lot of times they get open," receivers coach David Beaty said. "They don't have a whole lot of passes in the game, but a lot of times they count for big points. That's the direction our offense is headed in"
Sophomore quarterback Jordan Webb hands the ball to freshman running back Darran Miller. "We did exactly what we wanted to do. We ran the ball and as quartbacks and receivers we made the plays that we needed to and that's the team we need to be." Webb said.
The newfound, ground-heavy attack is far away from the spread offense Mark Mangino ran, but that doesn't mean that a more balanced style won't provide just as many opposing defense-killing, scoring opportunities.
Edited by Jennifer DiDonato
Faikenstein to announce Legends of the Phog game
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That familiar Max Falkenstein drawl will return before college basketball season even begins.
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Falkenstein and his iconic voice will join Dave Armstrong in broadcasting the Legends of the Phog alumni game at 4 p.m. on Sept. 24 at Allen Fieldhouse.
game is now officially said out, according to Kansas Athletics.
Brian Hanni and Bud Stallworth will announce for the Jayhawk Radio Network, which will broadcast the game to the state — KCSP (610 Sports) in Kansas City. WIBW (580 AM) in Topeka and KLWN (1320 AM) in Lawrence.
- Max Rothman