LAST SEASON
9
2008 RESULTS Kansas Jayhawks 8-5 (4-4)
12/31 Kansas 42, Minnesota 21
Insight Bowl ends season
The Jayhawks' 2007-2008 football season had its ups and downs, finishing with a bowl victory
Kansas won its first two games of the conference season before losing its next two to Oklahoma and Texas Tech. The Jayhawks played the Sooners close for much of the game, but were never really in it against the Red Raiders, who won 63-21 to snap the Jayhawks' 13-game winning streak at Memorial Stadium.
After opening with convincing wins against Florida International and Louisiana Tech, Kansas lost a heartbreaker to South Florida, 37-34. The Jayhawks never seemed in sync against the Bulls, but rebounded to defeat Sam Houston State in their last nonconference game.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Following a blowout of Kansas State in Lawrence, Kansas dropped two more games at Nebraska and at home to Texas one week later. The Jayhawks entered their final regular season game in Kansas City, Mo., against the Missouri Tigers with hopes of ending their two-game skid with a victory against their archrivals. In what turned out to be one of the best played games of the college football season, Todd Reesing delivered the winning touchdown pass to Kerry Meier late in the game to seal the victory for the Jayhawks.
Kansas finished the 2008 season with a 42-21 win against Minnesota in the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz.
Scott Toland
THE WAVE SEPTEMBER 4,2009