Southeast Missouri State cornerback Justin Elias (16) tries to shoe-string accouterment Kansas Jayhawks advanced receiver Nick Harwell (8) as he alcove the brawl beyond the ambition band in the aboriginal division of a bold at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, September 6, 2014, in Lawrence, Kan. (Photo: Shane Keyser/Kansas City Star)
Coming off a bye week, the Longhorns are attractive to put an end to their accident band as they arch to Lawrence to booty on the average Kansas Jayhawks this weekend.
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Kick-off is set for 3 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Here's a quick aloof address of the Jayhawks:
Record: 2-1
Last: Beat Central Michigan, 24-10
Offense: Spread
Defense: Nickel
1. The Jayhawks accept accustomed Texas some agitation in Lawrence. Kansas hasn't defeated the Longhorns back 1938, but Texas has had its issues at Memorial Stadium of late. In 2012, David Ash struggled mightily in Lawrence as the Longhorns trailed 17-14 backward in the fourth division afore Case McCoy adequate Ash and led a game-winning touchdown drive with 12 abnormal larboard in the game. In 2004, Vince Young and Cedric Benson aloof almost squeaked accomplished Mark Mangino's Kansas squad, artifice Lawrence with a 27-23 win. Strong and Co. will be attractive for a added adequate achievement this weekend.
2. "Lowly" Kansas enters the bold with a bigger almanac than the Longhorns. Thanks in allotment to a favorable non-conference schedule, the Jayhawks accessible Big 12 comedy with a acceptable almanac for the additional afterwards season. Kansas exhausted Southeast Missouri State, absent to Duke and again exhausted Central Michigan in its aboriginal three amateur this year. Texas, on the added hand, comes into this bold on a two-game accident band and opens alliance comedy with a accident almanac for the additional beeline year. The alone added time Kansas has played Texas while antic a bigger win allotment than the Longhorns was in 1997.
3. Look out for Captain Heeney. Jayhawk chief Ben Heeney is the affection of the Kansas aegis and one of the best linebackers in the Big 12. Now in his additional division as a aggregation captain, Heeney has appropriately dubbed himself "Captain Heeney," alike creating a claimed website, complete with a superhero caricature. A additional aggregation All-Big 12 alternative aftermost year, Heeney has looked alike bigger so far this year, accepting recorded 33 tackles, three tackles for accident and a affected bollix through three games.
4. Dangerous backfield tandem. Much like the Longhorns, the Jayhawks use a two-back arrangement on breach but, clashing Texas, Kansas' admixture has been absolutely acknowledged appropriately far. True apprentice Corey Avery, who angry bottomward a Texas scholarship offer, and inferior De'Andre Mann, a inferior academy transfer, accept been a affable abruptness for Charlie Weis in 2014. Avery is averaging 4.6 yards per backpack while Mann is averaging an absurd 6.1 yards per backpack afterwards three contests.
5. The Texas Jayhawks? Charlie Weis' has abounding this Kansas agenda with added built-in Texans (24) than it has built-in Kansans (19). The majority of the Lone Star Staters arena for Kansas appear from the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex, but Weis has additionally pulled a few kids out of Houston and several others from rural Texas. If annihilation else, there will be an abnormal faculty of acquaintance amid the two teams Saturday, as abounding of these kids played adjoin anniversary added in aerial school.
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