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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 2008
Hat tricks
quote of the day
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo catches a baseball with the brim of his cap as he watches game action against the Arizona Diamond-back in the third inning of a baseball game Sunday, in Phoenix.
"Well, we're of course disappointed. It always hurts to come a long way to lose. But it's early in the season; this doesn't have anything to do with Big 12 standings or our goal towards the North. We're going to come back Sunday and go back to the drawing boards."
— Junior running back Angus Quigley following No. 13 Kansas '73-34 loss at No. 19 South Florida on Friday
fact of the day
Kansas last beat a ranked non-conference opponent on the road in 1983 during Mike Gottfried's first season at the helm. The Jayhawks beat No. 10 USC 26-20.
Kansas Athletics Department
trivia of the day
Q: When was the last time Kansas played a ranked opponent in non-conference play?
A: 2001. The UCLA Bruins came to Lawrence as the 14th-ranked team in college football. Kansas lost 41-17, and coach Terry Allen was relieved of his duties later in the season.
Kansas Athletics Department
NCAA FOOTBALL Big 12 teams dominate and move up in the polls
STILLWATER, Okla. — A week after going a perfect 12-for-12 against nonconference opponents, the Big 12's member schools couldn't pull off a second straight sweep.
Hard as it is to fathom, though, the top teams in the conference found ways to look even stronger.
Oklahoma (3-0) put to rest any talk about last season's road woes continuing to linger by decisively dispatching Washington in its first trip to Pac-10 territory since the Oregon debacle of 2006, and was rewarded with a bump to No. 2 in The Associated Press' poll Sunday.
And Missouri, which also nudged up one spot to No. 5 had a record-setting day behind Chase Daniel and Jeremy Maclin in another game that was over
before the end of the third quarter.
Daniel became Missouri's all-time passing leader with a 405-yard performance
The defending North and South division champions combined to win by a 124-31 margin, and this week neither one was playing a Championship Subdivision opponent.
The blowout win made the Tigers the top-scorning team in the
nation with a 57.7-point average, and five other Big 12 teams are in the top 15 — Kansas State (57.5), Oklahoma (54.7), Oklahoma State (50.7), Texas (47.0) and Texas Tech (42.3).
It wasn't all good news for the Big 12 teams,which went 6-2 this week to follow up the first ever 12-0 showing in the conference's 12-plus years.
Associated Press
Is the magic gone or was it inevitable?
They were going to win. Friday night, 34-34 with the ball and a minute to do something cool? Too easy.
Fans saw tight ones last year, and Kansas always won. Todd Dreesing, the funsinger that he
receiving the tailsis, is would ask for the same situation in every game. And Mark Mangino, he loves it. The team that executes better in close games almost always wins them. And say what you want about Mangino and his fixation with privacy and
pine trees, the Jayhawks always execute and rarely make the error.
That's why Reesing's interception and Maikon Bonani's ensuing kick that curved right and wide before swinging left just inside the upright came as such a shock.
It was one game, but the loss felt like more. It was a loss of innocence. There was something pure and naive about KU football last year, like nothing could go wrong. Because for the most part, nothing went wrong.
The lajhawks won every tight game they were in except Missouri. Texas A&M and Colorado provided scares but nothing else. Kansas State had a million opportunities to win but didn't.
Aqib Talib or Justin Thornton would get the extra interception. James McClinton or Joe Mortensen would stop someone behind the line of scrimmage. Reesing would find Marcus Henry for a 40-yard pass. Somehow, someone would always bail the Jayhawks out, whether it was themselves because of their execution or the opponent's foolish play.
And the Jayhawks did it with a quarterback who was too small, a coach who was disrespected for many years because of his weight and lack of success, and a cornerback who wouldn't shut up until the rest of the country had heard him say how good his team was. It was a dream, too good to be true, only it was true.
Did the South Florida game change that? It was just one loss and a quality one at that. Who knows? It might not dent the Kansas aura.
After all, the Jayhawks lost to
a team that will be in the top 25 all season and will probably win the depressing Big East with relative ease. They played as good as any队 in the country for the first 30 minutes and then came back after receiving confidence-crushing blows
for an entire quarter. They get plenty of opportunities against quality opponents later this year and could still easily compete for the Big 12 North title.
But when you lose that innocence, nothing feels quite the same ever again.
The past 12 days have been a mess. Lawrence has turned into Seattle. At least, that's what it's felt like.
According to weather.com, it's rained on all but three days since Wednesday, Sept. 3. In that time, the sun has shined the majority of the time on only one day and the temperatures have hovered around the mid-60s.
Summer weather is supposed to finally return today. It should be in the 70s and sunny, and stay that way for about the next week. So play some tennis, throw a football, break out a croquet set, read a book under a tree. Let's all just enjoy the bright, sunny days while we still can.
— Edited by Ramsey Cox
2008
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