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KANSAS 13,OKLAHOMA 35
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY OCTOBER 26 2009
Kansas
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Oklahoma
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Jayhawk Stat Leaders
Rushing
Toben Opurum
59 yds
Passing
Todd Reesing 224 yds
Receiving
Jake Sharp 62 yds
Kansas Passing
| Player | C/ATT | Yards | Avg | TD | Int |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Todd Reesing | 22/42 | 224 | 5.3 | 0 | 3 |
| Totals | 22/42 | 224 | 5.3 | 0 | 3 |
Oklahoma Passing
| | C/ATT | Yards | Avg | TD | Int |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Team | 26/38 | 252 | 6.6 | 2 | 1 |
Kansas Rushing
| Player | CAR | Yards | Avg | TD | Lg |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Toben Opurum | 13 | 59 | 4.5 | 0 | 14 |
| Todd Reesing | 8 | 17 | 2.1 | 1 | 19 |
| Jake Sharp | 7 | 14 | 2.0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kale Pick | 2 | -5 | -5.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 1 | -4 | -4.0 | 0 | 0 |
Oklahoma Rushing
| | CAR | Yards | Avg | TD | LG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Team | 31 | 85 | 2.7 | 2 | 2 |
Kansas Receiving
| Player | REC | Yards | Avg | TD | Lg |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Jake Sharp | 3 | 62 | 20.7 | 0 | 56 |
| Dezmon Briscoe | 7 | 60 | 8.6 | 0 | 13 |
| Kerry Meier | 8 | 54 | 6.8 | 0 | 12 |
| Johnathan Wilson | 2 | 38 | 19.0 | 0 | 31 |
| Bradley McDougald | 2 | 10 | 5.0 | 0 | 9 |
| Totals | 2 | 224 | 10.2 | 0 | 56 |
Oklahoma Receiving
| | REC | Yards | Avg | TD | Lg |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Team | 26 | 252 | 9.7 | 2 | 45 |
Kansas Kick Returns
| Player | No. | Yards | Avg | TD |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Bradley McDougald | 3 | 71 | 23.7 | 0 |
| Dezmon Briscoe | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 0 |
| Team | 4 | 91 | 22.8 | 0 |
Oklahoma Kick Returns
| NO | Yards | Avg | Lg |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Team | 1 | 28 | 28.0 | 35 |
Kansas Punt Returns
| Player | NO | YDS | AVG | LG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Team | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 |
Oklahoma Punt Returns
| NO | Yards | Avg | Lg |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Team | 1 | 22 | 22.0 | 22 |
Kansas Kicking
| Player | FG | PCT | Long | XP | PTS |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Jacob Branstetter | 2/2 | 100.0 | 1/1 | 7 |
| Team | 2/2 | 100.0 | 1/1 | 7 |
Oklahoma Kicking
| FG | PCT | Long | XP | Pts |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Team | 0/0 | 0.0 | 0 | 5/5 | 5 |
Kansas Punting
| Player | TOT | YDS | TB | -20 | LG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Alonso Rojas | 7 | 282 | 1 | 2 | 47 |
| Jacob Branstetter | 1 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 29 |
| Team | 8 | 311 | 1 | 3 | 47 |
Oklahoma Punting
| Tot | Yards | TB | -20 | LG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Team | 6 | 242 | 1 | 1 | 57 |
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KANSAS FOOTB
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Oklahoma junior free safety Quinton Carter picks off the first pass of the game. Kansas threw three interceptions in Saturday's 35-13 loss to the Sooners
Check out a photo gallery of the Oklahoma game at Kansan.com
Notes
Kansas drops out of rankings
As expected, Kansas fell from the top 25 in both the AP poll and the USA Today poll. The Jayhawks were ranked 24th in the AP and 21st in the USA Today rankings.
This marks the first time all season that Kansas hasn't been ranked in any of the polls.
Only three teams in the Big 12 remain in the polls, and the Big 12 North is currently without any ranked teams.
jogged onto the field with three seconds remaining in the first half to attempt a 57-yard field goal, some inside Memorial Stadium were certainly scratching their heads.
Branstetter's 57-yard field goal the longest of his college career When junior kicker Jacob Branstetter
After all, Branstetter's previous career-long was a 34-yard field goal. But Branstetter connected on the field goal and cut Oklahoma's halftime lead to 14-6.
Branstetter sprinted from midfield all the way to Kansas' locker room after the kick.
Kansas not awed by Oklahoma
"That was the craziest feeling I've ever had," Branstetter said. "When I hit it I was like, 'Man, I think I hit it far enough.' Then I was trying to say 'Stay left, stay left.' When it stayed in there, I went nuts."
Oklahoma is undoubtedly one of the Big 12's most storied football programs. After the game, though, the Jayhawks said there was no sense of anger or playing at a disadvantage against the Sooners.
"We felt like we should've had a lead," sophomore center Jeremiah Hatch said. "Those guys put on their pants the same way we put on our pants. We felt like we contenders in the game."
In fact, players said that Kansas should have had a lead heading into halftime. Instead, Kansas trailed Oklahoma 14-6.
But until Kansas State and Iowa State shock us once or twice more, all this really boils down to for Kansas is alming for the Big 12 North title. Like its heartbreaker a week ago, Kansas was felled while its supposed top competition faltered, too.
All things held constant, Kansas could yet be the best of a six-team bunch being groomed for a beatdown in the Big 12 title game.
Colorado redux — only worse.
COLUMN (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Colorado redux — only worse.
That magic, that tossed-up prayer answered, that superlative moment like so many we've come to expect was missing.
Jayson Jenks
"There are no excuses," coach Mark Mangino said. "He has made some throws that he should not have. He knows that, we all know that."
There's little reason to think Kansas has much more than a fighter's chance in Lubbock on Halloween night. But strangely it's not the Kansas defense that looks worse off. No, that unit actually held Oklahoma to seven first-half points (Reesing supplied the other score with the aforementioned pick-six). Kansas simply couldn't make good on its opportunities Saturday, inside and out of Lawrence.
And so Kansas State and Iowa State — not Kansas, Missouri or Nebraska — sit atop the Big 12 North standings on Oct. 26, with just five games left to play. The Cyclones could have been cited for indecent exposure in Lincoln, Neb., as they practically depended the Cornhuskers and their bid for a special year. Without the aid of quarterback Austen Arnaud and one of the Big 12's leading rushers in running back Alexander Robinson, Iowa State held on for a 9-7 victory against Nebraska, its defense forcing a whopping eight turnovers in Memorial Stadium's 302nd sellout.
At Faurot Field, Texas smacked Missouri in the final result of 41-7 in the second half of ABC's production of the Haves (Big 12 South) vs. the Have-Nots (Big 12 North).
Edited by Amanda Thompson
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Junior place kicker Jacob Branstetter raises his arms after nailing a 57-yard field goal to end the second quarter Saturday afternoon against Oklahoma. Branstetter recorded one other field goal in Kansas' 35-13 loss. The 57-yard field goal marked a career long for Branstetter and tied for the fourth longest in KU history. "I felt like the wav I had been kicking the ball in practice and the last couple of games I had been really hitting the ball really solid," Branstetter said.
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