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Kansas beats Texas (Christian) in football JACK JOHNSON @JohnyJ_15
Since TCU’s inclusion into the Big 12 back in 2012, Kansas football has lost all six of its games against the Horned Frogs. That streak ended on Saturday in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. After previous failures to finish out a strong fourth quarter in the past against TCU, the Jayhawks finally closed the deal in a shocking 27-26 upset over the Horned Frogs. Both of the teams had struggled mightily since the opening of conference play, coming in on multiple-game losing streaks. With that in mind, the result may not have been a complete surprise. To start the contest, Kansas received and put together one of its best drives of the seasons with an 11-play, 75-yard drive, resulting in a oneyard touchdown rush from junior running back Khalil Herbert to give the Jayhawks an early 7-0 lead. Similar to the first possession for Kansas, TCU had no shortage of production in marching down deep into the red zone. However, the Jayhawk defense stuffed the Horned Frogs on 4thand-1 at the goal line, turning them over on downs and presumably shifting the momentum heavily in the Jayhawks’ favor.\ Despite the actionfilled start, the remaining first half of football was rather silent, especially for Kansas. Netting only 14 total yards since its opening
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Fans rushed the field after a 27-26 Kansas win against TCU on Saturday, Oct. 27. drive, the dormant Kansas offense allowed TCU to take the lead on a 56-yard strike from quarterback Michael Collins to wide receiver Jalen Reagor. Heading into halftime, TCU had out-gained Kansas 279-89, yet only led by a mere three points. But it was the second half that told a much different story. Following a three-andout forced by the Kansas defense, the offense responded by flexing its passing game, headlined
by a 31-yard pass from senior quarterback Peyton Bender to sophomore wide receiver Stephon Robinson Jr. The large chunk of gains set up a scrambling seven yard touchdown pass to freshman running back Pooka Williams Jr. to turn the lead back over to the Jayhawks, 14-10. The lead marked the first time Kansas held a lead in the second half of a conference game since 2016 — coincidentally when Kansas beat Texas.
said the office has seen an average of around 500 voters each day since advanced polling locations opened last Wednesday, which is above the normal average for midterm elections. He said it is possible the increase in advanced voting could create a decrease in voting on election day, but the number of new voters participating could predict otherwise. “At this rate, a lot of the vote may have occurred before the election, which is a trend that we’ve been seeing over the past couple cycles,� Shew said. “We’re seeing the level of activity we would normally see in a presidential election in a midterm.� Throughout the semester, a number of student organizations have been making efforts to register students at the University to vote, including the University of Kansas Young Democrats and College Republicans organizations, as well as Student Senate and the Student Union Association, among
others. “I think the 2016 elections defied a lot of people’s expectations,� Grace Stewart-Johnson, a senior from Wichita, said. “A lot of political science pollsters and stuff — things just happened that they weren’t expecting. So people have come to realize that, ‘okay, I might actually need to get involved in this because what I think about the world has kind of all gone topsy-turvy.’� Stewart-Johnson is currently interning for Loud Light, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to increase civic participation in Kansas among underrepresented populations. She has been active in registering students to vote as well as working with organizations on campus to encourage voting. “It’s kind of confusing; there’s a lot of misinformation out there about registering to vote and who can, and where you can, and how do you do it, and all of that,� she said. “So I think it’s
Just as soon as Kansas gained the lead back, it was lost yet again thanks to a couple of long TCU completions to set up a 2-yard rushing score by Collins. Heading into the fourth quarter, the pair of teams went back-andforth, interchanging leads from 17-14 to TCU, 2017 to Kansas, 24-20 back to TCU and finally the deciding 27-26 victory for Kansas. Williams found his way into the end zone once again, this time from 28
yards out for the final game winning score with just over six minutes left in the game. On the final drive for the Horned Frogs and the last chance to retake the lead, they maneuvered their way to inside Kansas’ 10-yard line, but coughed it up on a costly fumble with a little over a minute left the game. The students who stuck it out for the whole game piled onto the heart of the field in a frenzy of celebration the program
had not witnessed since 2016. The win pushes the Jayhawks to 3-5 and 1-3 in the Big 12. They will next host Iowa State on Saturday, Nov. 3 in hopes to win a second-straight Big 12 game for the first time in nearly a decade.
next game
vs. Iowa St. Sat., Nov. 3 11 a.m.
Douglas County mails out record number of ballots SYDNEY HOOVER @sydhoover17 The Douglas County Elections Office reported a record number of advanced ballots mailed out in its history for this year’s midterm election. The elections office posted on Facebook that a total of 12,146 advanced ballots had been mailed as of Wednesday evening. This topped both the 2014 midterms, with 5,597 ballots mailed out, and the 2016 presidential election, which had 7,948 ballots mailed out. “We are way ahead of anything we’ve ever mailed in the history of our county,� said Jamie Shew, the Douglas County clerk. Shew said that of the ballots mailed out, around 30 percent of those were either “brand new voters,� or voters who typically only voted in presidential elections. The office has also seen an increase in the age bracket of 18- to 24-year-olds voting with advanced ballots. Additionally, Shew
File Photo Illustration Douglas County voters are utilizing advanced ballots at a record high this year ahead of the midterm election on Nov. 6. helpful for people who, if they had already been meaning to do it, to have someone come up to them and be like, ‘here it is, it’s easy, just do it.’� Even with the push to register from many organizations on campus, Shew said the county has not seen an abnormal increase in voter registration as it has in voter participation.
While the office always pushes for voter engagement in the presidential elections, Shew said it is the state elections that will have more of an impact on college students. “Those are people that decide things like how much money KU gets, what tuition’s going to be, and things like that,� Shew said. “So their decisions
directly impact students, in some ways, more than at the federal level.� Students, faculty and staff registered in Douglas County are able to vote in advance at the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center the week of Oct. 29, and can find their election day polling location at douglascountyelections. com.