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Kansas Illinois Fri 9/8, 7:30 PM ET ESPN2 David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium
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[–] TORFdot0 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KU offense with a competent defense is scary fellas

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

KU has always been scary, fellas. No, don't ask me why I think that...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m kinda digging the “blackhawk” uniforms

[–] g0d0fm15ch13f 7 points 1 year ago

I like matte black helmets, and anything with those ridiculously big beaks on it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What a coincidence -- I was just about to post a comment about how I'm not fond of these. Blackout unis work for some teams, but KU's colors are so bright it doesn't feel right to me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They look clean as hell!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the feeling the Big 12 is gonna be a blood bath this year.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Big 12 is usually a blood bath. Haven't the past 3 conference championship games featured 6 different teams?

I think the PAC and ACC are even bigger free-for-alls this year. Those conferences look really deep.

[–] g0d0fm15ch13f 7 points 1 year ago

Whenever I am forced to sit through ads, I like to loudly say into the speaker of my smartphone "I am substantially less inclined to purchase product"

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working...

[–] TORFdot0 7 points 1 year ago

Illinois was the #1 defense last year and Daniels just scored on them in 40 seconds

[–] TORFdot0 6 points 1 year ago

Good game KU. Good adjustments by Illinois in the second half, even if I didn’t agree with any of the calls in the second half. Rank KU Cowards!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I kind of expected this to be evenly matched through the first half, but so far (end of the first) it's all been Kansas. Let's see if Illinois comes back later in the game. It's hard to count out Bret (unless he's coaching at Arkansas...)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dang, Illinois can straight up march down the field.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really good drive there, although jump passes in the red zone always make me a little nervous since I've seen them picked off way too many times. Good for Illinois that one paid off

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

OK, maybe it was too good of a drive. They left too much time on the clock and now KU effectively steals touchdown before half...

[–] TORFdot0 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Refs put money down on illinois

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dude. KU in this 4th quarter is killin me.

[–] simplelifelfk 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a day late, but I just got to watch the first half finally that I recorded last night. My thoughts:

  1. Love the black out uniforms. The "War 'Hawk" is my favorite Jayhawk logo of all time. I'm not sure we would change todays Jayhawk to do something like that if a war broke out now...
  2. Offense was clicking! Jalen was making plays that Bean just couldn't do. Keeping things alive, and making a little something out of nothing.
  3. Our wide receivers are getting better. And they made some ridiculous great catches.
  4. These B1G refs were horrible. And I think one of them is a local guy from Kansas City area.
  5. Defense looks good. Still a little work to do against the passing game...but they did their job well.
  6. I hope coach is able to get those targeting calls challenged, and our guys play the first half next week. and lastly...
  7. I know...We are Kansas, and we have to prove more than just a few games. But man...the play by play and color guy...come on ESPN. Step it up!

Rock Chalk!

[–] g0d0fm15ch13f 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only thing I like more than a good punt downing inside the 2 is a blocked punt in the endzone...

Edit: well I'm still gonna keep hoping

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So Leipold just put both QBs in that play, with both hands up to receive the snap? I'm sure I've seen that before but I can't recall a situation

[–] TORFdot0 2 points 1 year ago

KU 34- Illinois 13- refs 10

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure everyone's tuned out of this one by now (I was just about to myself), so if you missed that awesome Altmeyer 70+ yard rushing TD on 3rd and 18, go watch the highlights. With him in the pocket, he effectively ran for nearly 90 actual yards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s your opinion on the targeting call? Either way, it was a massive hit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that one wasn't clear to me. If I was the ref on the field and had a good look, I imagine it probably looked like targeting live. The replay footage was murky though.

[–] TORFdot0 2 points 1 year ago

Total screw job

[–] TORFdot0 2 points 1 year ago

Poop targeting call but you don’t like seeing the QB taking that hit either