The Oklahoma Sooners fell to the Oregon Ducks after the Ducks scored 14 points in the final 72 seconds.
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》 DANCING NACHOS
Football 101 offers overview of season
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS
KANSAN COLUMNIST
MPHILLIPS$KANSAN.COM
TOLEDO 37, KANSAS 31 (20T)
Are difficult subjects like chemistry and literature getting you down? Need to add a couple more hours to your schedule this semester?
The University of Kansas School of Football (FBAL) just released its fall course schedule. You'll want to enroll soon, as the most popular classes are sure to fill up quickly. Some highlights:
FBAL 3A2 THE SINGLE-QUEST
In this graduate-level course, professor and offensive coordinator Nick Quartaro will show you how anyone can turn a simple run play into an exciting adventure with two simple words: shovel pass.
FBAL 503: Second question
Professors Dave Pasch and Rod Gilmore from ESPN2 will teach you how to elevate second guessing to an art form, and shame your entire profession in the process. By the end of the course, you'll be able to imitate gems like this one, after Kansas fumbled in the first overtime: "Was that the right decision, not to kick the field goal on first down?"
Note: Students must provide their own foam swords.
FBAL 301: Turnovers
Note: Class meets for extended hours on Friday nights FBAL 112: Calculating hours
Learn why the other team should always be able to finish its drive, no matter how easy an interception might be.
TEAL 112: Calculating your salary Graduate teaching assistant Charles Gordon will teach students how to live cheaply as an NFL practice-squad player by clipping coupons and asking starters, "Are you done with that?" EAPL 605 Talk like a coach
GAL 605: Talk like a coach
A comprehensive study in saving nothing in as many words as possible. Professor Mark Mangino will guide you as you write your 15-page thesis using phrases like "we gave 110 percent today" and "we've just got to keep sawing wood."
FBAL 308: The art of scheduling
Learn how small schools can subsidize their athletics department simply by losing at football. Final exam will involve making a mock schedule using only schools named "Tech," "State," "International" or any two cardinal directions.
Not quite ready to win on the road? Mangino shows you how to handle being within a year of turning the corner. Class meets five times during the semester.
Prerequisite: FBAL 210: Ugly road losses.
FBAL 0021 Criminology
Avoid common mistakes by studying arrested athletes from Jayhawk past. Professor Mario Kinsey will lead a comprehensive case study of Dion Rayford, the 270-pound defensive end who got stuck in a Taco Bell drive-thru window after employees forgot to give him his chalupa.
Edited by Catherine Odson
Phillips is a Wichita senior In journalism. He is the Kansan sports editor.
Along night
Toledo quarterback Clint Cochran jumps on a football that was stripped from his hands while trying to make a pass during the first half of the game against Kansas on Friday in Toledo, Ohio.
Jayhawks 'struggle to hang onto the ball,' commit 5 turnovers in double-overtime game
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
After winning its first two games despite turnovers and a sloppy offense, Kansas was unable to overcome itself on Friday, failing to Toledo 37-31 in double overtime.
OLEDO, Ohio --- It was a loss two weeks in the making.
The jayhawks turned the ball over five times including four interceptions at crucial times by freshman quarterback Kerry Meier. Those turnovers led to 22 points for Toledo. It was the offenses mistakes that kept Toledo hanging around until overtime.
After Kansas' defense had held Toledo scoreless on the initial possession of the first overtime, all the Jayhawks had to do was line up and kick a goal goal for the win. They had the ball at the 25 yard line, well within range for junior kicker Scott Webb.
On a play that was confirmed by both Meter and senior running back Jon Cornish as a run, Kansas made the most critical mistake of the game. As Meter went to hand off the ball to Cornish, the handoff slipped between the two, bouncing on the ground before it was recovered by Toledo.
just like that, on a play Kansas coach Mark Mangino called "basic," an attempt at a nearly surefire field pool was none.
"It hit my hip." Cornish said. "I wasn't expecting him to hang it off."
Just a week ago, critical mistakes by Kansas kept Louisiana-Monroe in the game until late in the fourth quarter. The same thing happened Saturday, but this time those errors added up to Kansas' first loss of the season.
On Kansas' drive in the second overtime, Meier telegraphed his pass to Toledo's cornerback Bo Martin. Martin sat back in coverage at the near the goal line watching the quarterback's eyes. Martin darted into the route and nagged the pass at the about the five-yard line and ran it back to midfield before Meier knocked him out of bounds.
Mangino said he was baffled by his team's struggle to hang onto the ball.
"you're not going to win any time you have five turnovers in a game," he said. "We've just got to be smarter taking care of the football."
The Jayhawks looked good at times on offense, especially with Meier and Cornish running the ball. But for too much of the night, railstakes in key situations cost the Jayhawks. Meier struggled with his accuracy all night, throwing numerous passes short or low of his intended receivers.
While Kansas' turnovers in regulation certainly helped keep Toledo in the game, it was the turnovers in overtime that cost Kansas the game.
Tokio scooped the game-winning touchdown on the next play.
by the numbers
SEE PROTBALL ON PAGE 4B
28 offensive yards gained by Toledo in the second half. The Rockets had no first downs.
turnovers By Tulledo Kansas has forced just two all season, both in the Northwestern State game.
44 plays run by Toledo in the first half, more than some teams run in entire games.
11:06 time the Rocxets ended the game which was exactly four hours after kickoff.
5. 9 average yards per carry for running backJon Cornish this season. Friday was his first game with less than 100 yards
5-11 Mark Mangino's record in games decided by less than 10 points
5 Kansas turnovers Friday night, including one in each overtime. Kerry Meier finished with 4 interceptions.
3-18 The Jawhaws road record under Mangino.The last time they won away from home was in 2004.
15/47 Toledo quarterback Clint Cochran completed less than a third of his passes, although he was bothered by cramps.
9 touchdowns this season by Meiler. He has run for four and passed for five.
113 yards toledo was penalized on 11 violations. The Jayhawks had eight penalties for 82 yards.
35-2 Toledo's record at home. Friday's crowd was 22,118, just short of capacity but low by Big 12 standards.
Michael Phillips
The soccer team came into the weekend ranked No.18, but that ranking will likely drop after the Jayhawks allowed unranked Peperdine to score three second-half goals in a come-from-behind victory. The team was able to end the weekend with a victory, shutting out Central Florida 2-0 in a Sunday afternoon game.
The football team wasn't the only team to struggle this weekend. The KU volleyball team was swept in its match against the No.5 Texas Longhorns in front of a sellout crowd at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center Saturday night.
Turn to page 3B for coverage of all three games.
Photos by The Kansan's Vanessa Pearson and Ryan McGeeney.
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