Kansas leaning on explosive offense as it pushes for further Big 12 relevancy

After all, TCU made the national championship game, Kansas State won the conference and Oklahoma lost more games than it won. Wild. But so was Kansas. The Jayhawks started the season 5-0, hosted ESPN’s College GameDay and played in their first bowl game since 2008.

The 2022 Liberty Bowl vs Arkansas was one of the best games of last year’s epic postseason, with quarterback Jalon Daniels dueling Razorbacks’ KJ Jefferson. Daniels scored six touchdowns on 565 yards, but the Jayhawks fell short in overtime.

time a Jayhawk was picked for an individual preseason award. Kansas was long the “easy win” on most Big 12 teams’ schedules. From 2009-21, Kansas averaged just two wins per season. Many coaches tried and — for the most part — failed to bring KU to relevancy. But in his second year, though the Jayhawks finished with a losing record, coach Lance Leipold did it. Can he continue it?

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In a year of unique storylines in the Big 12, Kansas reaching a bowl game may have been forgotten about.

That performance was all Kansas wanted to see as it enters the 2023 season. Daniels was picked as the Big 12 preseason offensive player of the year, only the second

“(Last season) showed the resiliency of our team, and we’re excited to take another step this year using that end of the season toward motivation, of course, to get us to be the consistent bowl team we want to be and find a way to turn that into victory,” Leipold said at Big 12 media days.

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