Saturday, October 24
Lawrence, Kan.
12 p.m.
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FB Ventures to Lawrence to Face Kansas
10/19/2026 9:03:00 AM | Football
WACO, Texas -- Having won four of its last five games, Baylor football will hit the road to face Kansas, with kickoff in Lawrence, Kan., set for 12 p.m. at David Booth Memorial Stadium. The game will be televised live on TNT/truTV/HBOMax and will be broadcast live on the Baylor Sports Media Network.
Baylor (4-2, 2-1 Big 12 Conference) will be facing off with Kansas (2-4, 0-3 Big 12) with the opportunity to win five of its last six games and remain in the hunt for a conference championship chase. The Bears have won 14 straight meetings with Kansas, dating back to 2007.
The game will be televised live on TNT, with J.B. Long (play-by-play), Mike Golic Jr. (analyst) and Allie LaForce (sideline) on the call. For the Baylor Sports Media Network, the Voice of the Bears, John Morris (play-by-play), Geff Gandy (analyst) and Bryson Jackson (sideline) will have the call.
The Bears are coming off a 17-6 loss vs. TCU on Saturday at McLane Stadium, as the stingy Horned Frog defense limited BU to 310 yards of total offense. The BU defensive effort was once again strong, holding a sixth straight opponent to 20 points or less, the longest such streak since 1965.
Baylor boasts one of the nation's top defensive units, ranking among the NCAA top-10 in scoring defense (ninth), rushing defense (ninth), sacks per game (fourth), tackles for loss per game (fifth) and fourth-down defense (second).
SCOUTING THE JAYHAWKS
• Kansas is off to a 2-4 start to the 2026 season, including a 0-3 mark in league play. The Jayhawks opened the year with a resounding 51-6 win over Long Island, before suffering a 38-21 loss vs. No. 23 Missouri in its rivalry game. Arizona State earned a 24-17 win in the Union Jack Classic in London, before the Hawks bounced back with a 55-0 win over Middle Tennessee. A 41-24 loss to Utah dropped KU to 0-2 in league play, heading into the rivalry matchup at Kansas State, with the Wildcats earning a 35-24 win in Manhattan.
• KU's QB has been Isaiah Marshall, who redshirted in 2024 before playing in nine games with a start in 2025. Marshall has thrown for 1,294 yards with nine TDs and five interceptions, while also rushing for 372 yards and a score. Kansas State transfer Dylan Edwards leads the ground attack with 75 carries for 375 yards and four TDs. WR Nik McMillan has a team-high 23 catches for 400 yards and four scores. Trey Lathan leads the defense with 41 tackles, including 3.5 for a loss and a sack. Leroy Harris III has a team-high 9.5 tackles for a loss with three sacks. Jalen Todd has KU's lone interception but the Hawks have forced six fumbles, including three from Harris.
• As a team, Kansas is averaging 32 points, 449.5 yards, 242.5 yards passing and 207 yards rushing in 2026. Defensively, KU allows 24 points per game, with 348.7 yards of total offense, including 174.3 both rushing and passing. Against FBS teams, KU is averaging 28.2 points, 416.8 yards of offense, 223.8 passing and 193 yards per game rushing. Defensively, KU holds FBS foes to 389.2 yards of total offense, including 202.2 rushing.
• After going 2-10 overall and 1-8 in league play in 2021 in Coach Lance Leipold's first season, the Jayhawks together three consecutive competitive seasons. KU went 6-7 with a loss in the Liberty Bowl in 2022, 9-4 in 2023 with a win in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, before going 5-7 in 2024. KU is 29-38 under Leipold, who went 37-33 in six years with Buffalo, following a historic career at his alma matter Wisconsin-Whitewater from 2007-14. Leipold grew as a coach over stints at Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1987, 88 and 90, before a three-year tenure as the GA at Wisconsin (1991-93) and time at Nebraska-Omaha (1994-2000, 2004-06) and Nebraska (2001-03). While at Wisconsin-Whitewater, Leipold was a six-time national coach of the year, leading the team to the 2007, 2013 and 2014 Division III National Championship. His squad went 45-0 over a three-season span.
• Andy Kotelnicki is the offensive play caller for Kansas and came to the Jayhawks for a second stint following two seasons at Penn State, which featured a pair of CFP wins in 2024. Kotelnicki previously was the OC at Kansas from 2021-22 and the AHC/OC in 2023. He sports the Associate Head Coach title in 2026 for Kansas. Kotelnicki was the OC at Buffalo for Leipold from 2015-21, and at UW Whitewater from 2013-14. Jim Zebrowski is the passing-game coordinator/QB coach, Matt Lubick is the co-offensive coordinator and Chris Simpson is the Assistant Head Coach/LBs Coach. Jonathan Wallace is also the Assistant Head Coach/RBs Coach. Taiwo Onatolu serves as the special teams coordinator. DK McDonald is the defensive coordinator and has been with KU since 2024, which followed time on the Philadelphia Eagles staff in 2022 that advanced to the Super Bowl in 2022 with a 14-3 record. He prepped at Iowa State from 2016-20, working with defensive backs.
TCU DEFENSE HANDS BEARS REVIVALRY LOSS IN WACO
• Baylor could not overcome a stingy TCU defense in the 122nd all-time meeting of the Revivalry, the most-played game in the state of Texas, at McLane Stadium.
• Baylor fell behind in the first quarter and couldn't muster the offensive fireworks to rally past TCU, who held the Bears to 310 yards of total offense. The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for Baylor, who had opened conference play with wins over Colorado and Arizona State.
• The Bears rallied to cut the lead to 7-6 at halftime but a 10-point third quarter, fueled by a 67-yard completion that drove a 75-yard TD drive, and a 14-play, 73-yard drive that ended in a field goal, pushed the Frogs up by two scores. BU couldn't narrow the lead as its final seven drives - outside of an end of first half scenario - ended in three punts, a fumble, interception and two turnovers on downs.
• Baylor's strong defensive performance throughout the 2026 season continued, with the Bears holding their sixth straight opponent to 20 points or less to open the year. BU held TCU to 327 yards, with its run defense forcing TCU into just 33 yards rushing. The Frogs threw for 294 yards on 21-of-36 passing.
• BU got another strong game from Gavin Freeman, who had seven catches for 76 yards. Louis Brown IV had five grabs for 74 yards. Caden Knighten toted it 10 times for a team-high 35 yards. QB DJ Lagway threw for 256 yards. The Bears had four sacks and 10 tackles for a loss, a pair of categories BU ranked among the nation's top six in entering the game.
• TCU QB Jaden Craig had two TD passes in a 21-for-36 effort through the air, with 294 yards. Jordan Dwyer, whose 67-yard catch on the opening drive of the third quarter, spurred the win for the Frogs, had six catches for 150 yards. Ed Small had seven grabs for 91 yards and a TD.
SERIES HISTORY
• Baylor leads the all-time series with Kansas, 19-4, including a 7-4 mark in games played in Lawrence.
• The Bears have won 14 straight meetings with KU, with the last loss coming in 2007 in Lawrence, a 58-10 Kansas win. BU has won six straight in Lawrence.
• During the 14-game win streak vs. KU, BU has outscored Kansas 648-176, or an average score of 46.3-12.6.
LAST MEETING
• Baylor extended its winning streak to six games with a rout of previously red-hot Kansas on senior day in 2024, 45-17. The win snapped a three-game win streak for Kansas, the first three-game win streak vs. ranked opponents by an unranked team in college football history. The Bears dominated KU, going for 32 first downs and 603 total yards of offense, including 310 passing and 293 rushing, marking its first 600+ yard game since 2016 vs. a Big 12 foe.
• The Bears held the formerly electric Kansas offense to 17 points, with KU QB Jalon Daniels throwing a pair of interceptions. Baylor RB Bryson Washington went over 100 rushing yards for the freshman school-record sixth time of the year, collecting two TDs and 192 yards on 28 carries. Dawson Pendergrass added 104 rushing yards on 11 carries and QB Sawyer Robertson slung four TDs and 310 yards on 23-of-31 passing. Josh Cameron had eight grabs for 102 yards and a score and Monaray Baldwin had a pair of first-half TDs, collecting seven catches for 119 yards.
LAST MEETING IN LAWRENCE
• Baylor earned a 45-7 win over Kansas in 2021 in Lawrence, routing the Jayhawks for a 12th-straight win over KU with 31 unanswered second-half points to pull away from a 14-7 halftime margin.
• The Bears rolled to 576 yards of total offense and held KU to just 166 yards, including 57 yards through the air and 109 on the ground. BU surrendered just eight first downs.
• QB Gerry Bohanon threw for 269 yards and two TDs on 19-of-23 passing, while adding a nine-yard TD rush in the fourth quarter and extended the lead to 35-7. Abram Smith and Trestan Ebner combined for 198 yards on 28 carries, with Smith going for 122 yards on 16 carries. RJ Sneed had six catches for 128 yards and a score. Ben Sims added a TD catch, with Taye McWilliams adding a TD rush.
NEXT UP
• Baylor continues a two-game road swing at UCF on Friday, Oct. 30 in Orlando. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. on ESPN and the Baylor Sports Media Network.
Baylor (4-2, 2-1 Big 12 Conference) will be facing off with Kansas (2-4, 0-3 Big 12) with the opportunity to win five of its last six games and remain in the hunt for a conference championship chase. The Bears have won 14 straight meetings with Kansas, dating back to 2007.
The game will be televised live on TNT, with J.B. Long (play-by-play), Mike Golic Jr. (analyst) and Allie LaForce (sideline) on the call. For the Baylor Sports Media Network, the Voice of the Bears, John Morris (play-by-play), Geff Gandy (analyst) and Bryson Jackson (sideline) will have the call.
The Bears are coming off a 17-6 loss vs. TCU on Saturday at McLane Stadium, as the stingy Horned Frog defense limited BU to 310 yards of total offense. The BU defensive effort was once again strong, holding a sixth straight opponent to 20 points or less, the longest such streak since 1965.
Baylor boasts one of the nation's top defensive units, ranking among the NCAA top-10 in scoring defense (ninth), rushing defense (ninth), sacks per game (fourth), tackles for loss per game (fifth) and fourth-down defense (second).
SCOUTING THE JAYHAWKS
• Kansas is off to a 2-4 start to the 2026 season, including a 0-3 mark in league play. The Jayhawks opened the year with a resounding 51-6 win over Long Island, before suffering a 38-21 loss vs. No. 23 Missouri in its rivalry game. Arizona State earned a 24-17 win in the Union Jack Classic in London, before the Hawks bounced back with a 55-0 win over Middle Tennessee. A 41-24 loss to Utah dropped KU to 0-2 in league play, heading into the rivalry matchup at Kansas State, with the Wildcats earning a 35-24 win in Manhattan.
• KU's QB has been Isaiah Marshall, who redshirted in 2024 before playing in nine games with a start in 2025. Marshall has thrown for 1,294 yards with nine TDs and five interceptions, while also rushing for 372 yards and a score. Kansas State transfer Dylan Edwards leads the ground attack with 75 carries for 375 yards and four TDs. WR Nik McMillan has a team-high 23 catches for 400 yards and four scores. Trey Lathan leads the defense with 41 tackles, including 3.5 for a loss and a sack. Leroy Harris III has a team-high 9.5 tackles for a loss with three sacks. Jalen Todd has KU's lone interception but the Hawks have forced six fumbles, including three from Harris.
• As a team, Kansas is averaging 32 points, 449.5 yards, 242.5 yards passing and 207 yards rushing in 2026. Defensively, KU allows 24 points per game, with 348.7 yards of total offense, including 174.3 both rushing and passing. Against FBS teams, KU is averaging 28.2 points, 416.8 yards of offense, 223.8 passing and 193 yards per game rushing. Defensively, KU holds FBS foes to 389.2 yards of total offense, including 202.2 rushing.
• After going 2-10 overall and 1-8 in league play in 2021 in Coach Lance Leipold's first season, the Jayhawks together three consecutive competitive seasons. KU went 6-7 with a loss in the Liberty Bowl in 2022, 9-4 in 2023 with a win in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, before going 5-7 in 2024. KU is 29-38 under Leipold, who went 37-33 in six years with Buffalo, following a historic career at his alma matter Wisconsin-Whitewater from 2007-14. Leipold grew as a coach over stints at Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1987, 88 and 90, before a three-year tenure as the GA at Wisconsin (1991-93) and time at Nebraska-Omaha (1994-2000, 2004-06) and Nebraska (2001-03). While at Wisconsin-Whitewater, Leipold was a six-time national coach of the year, leading the team to the 2007, 2013 and 2014 Division III National Championship. His squad went 45-0 over a three-season span.
• Andy Kotelnicki is the offensive play caller for Kansas and came to the Jayhawks for a second stint following two seasons at Penn State, which featured a pair of CFP wins in 2024. Kotelnicki previously was the OC at Kansas from 2021-22 and the AHC/OC in 2023. He sports the Associate Head Coach title in 2026 for Kansas. Kotelnicki was the OC at Buffalo for Leipold from 2015-21, and at UW Whitewater from 2013-14. Jim Zebrowski is the passing-game coordinator/QB coach, Matt Lubick is the co-offensive coordinator and Chris Simpson is the Assistant Head Coach/LBs Coach. Jonathan Wallace is also the Assistant Head Coach/RBs Coach. Taiwo Onatolu serves as the special teams coordinator. DK McDonald is the defensive coordinator and has been with KU since 2024, which followed time on the Philadelphia Eagles staff in 2022 that advanced to the Super Bowl in 2022 with a 14-3 record. He prepped at Iowa State from 2016-20, working with defensive backs.
TCU DEFENSE HANDS BEARS REVIVALRY LOSS IN WACO
• Baylor could not overcome a stingy TCU defense in the 122nd all-time meeting of the Revivalry, the most-played game in the state of Texas, at McLane Stadium.
• Baylor fell behind in the first quarter and couldn't muster the offensive fireworks to rally past TCU, who held the Bears to 310 yards of total offense. The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for Baylor, who had opened conference play with wins over Colorado and Arizona State.
• The Bears rallied to cut the lead to 7-6 at halftime but a 10-point third quarter, fueled by a 67-yard completion that drove a 75-yard TD drive, and a 14-play, 73-yard drive that ended in a field goal, pushed the Frogs up by two scores. BU couldn't narrow the lead as its final seven drives - outside of an end of first half scenario - ended in three punts, a fumble, interception and two turnovers on downs.
• Baylor's strong defensive performance throughout the 2026 season continued, with the Bears holding their sixth straight opponent to 20 points or less to open the year. BU held TCU to 327 yards, with its run defense forcing TCU into just 33 yards rushing. The Frogs threw for 294 yards on 21-of-36 passing.
• BU got another strong game from Gavin Freeman, who had seven catches for 76 yards. Louis Brown IV had five grabs for 74 yards. Caden Knighten toted it 10 times for a team-high 35 yards. QB DJ Lagway threw for 256 yards. The Bears had four sacks and 10 tackles for a loss, a pair of categories BU ranked among the nation's top six in entering the game.
• TCU QB Jaden Craig had two TD passes in a 21-for-36 effort through the air, with 294 yards. Jordan Dwyer, whose 67-yard catch on the opening drive of the third quarter, spurred the win for the Frogs, had six catches for 150 yards. Ed Small had seven grabs for 91 yards and a TD.
SERIES HISTORY
• Baylor leads the all-time series with Kansas, 19-4, including a 7-4 mark in games played in Lawrence.
• The Bears have won 14 straight meetings with KU, with the last loss coming in 2007 in Lawrence, a 58-10 Kansas win. BU has won six straight in Lawrence.
• During the 14-game win streak vs. KU, BU has outscored Kansas 648-176, or an average score of 46.3-12.6.
LAST MEETING
• Baylor extended its winning streak to six games with a rout of previously red-hot Kansas on senior day in 2024, 45-17. The win snapped a three-game win streak for Kansas, the first three-game win streak vs. ranked opponents by an unranked team in college football history. The Bears dominated KU, going for 32 first downs and 603 total yards of offense, including 310 passing and 293 rushing, marking its first 600+ yard game since 2016 vs. a Big 12 foe.
• The Bears held the formerly electric Kansas offense to 17 points, with KU QB Jalon Daniels throwing a pair of interceptions. Baylor RB Bryson Washington went over 100 rushing yards for the freshman school-record sixth time of the year, collecting two TDs and 192 yards on 28 carries. Dawson Pendergrass added 104 rushing yards on 11 carries and QB Sawyer Robertson slung four TDs and 310 yards on 23-of-31 passing. Josh Cameron had eight grabs for 102 yards and a score and Monaray Baldwin had a pair of first-half TDs, collecting seven catches for 119 yards.
LAST MEETING IN LAWRENCE
• Baylor earned a 45-7 win over Kansas in 2021 in Lawrence, routing the Jayhawks for a 12th-straight win over KU with 31 unanswered second-half points to pull away from a 14-7 halftime margin.
• The Bears rolled to 576 yards of total offense and held KU to just 166 yards, including 57 yards through the air and 109 on the ground. BU surrendered just eight first downs.
• QB Gerry Bohanon threw for 269 yards and two TDs on 19-of-23 passing, while adding a nine-yard TD rush in the fourth quarter and extended the lead to 35-7. Abram Smith and Trestan Ebner combined for 198 yards on 28 carries, with Smith going for 122 yards on 16 carries. RJ Sneed had six catches for 128 yards and a score. Ben Sims added a TD catch, with Taye McWilliams adding a TD rush.
NEXT UP
• Baylor continues a two-game road swing at UCF on Friday, Oct. 30 in Orlando. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. on ESPN and the Baylor Sports Media Network.
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