The Kansas Jayhawks racked up their second win of the season with a 34-7 victory over Conference USA’s UTEP on the road in El Paso tonight. The Jayhawks opened up the scoring on their first drive of the game with a 21 yard field goal by Jacob Branstetter. The key play of the drive was a 56 yard pass play from wide receiver Kerry Meier to Dezmon Briscoe on a reverse.
That was the only score of the first quarter but Kansas posted 17 second quarter points on three drives. None lasting more than two minutes and thirty seconds. Both touchdowns were scored by running back Jake Sharp. One on a one yard run, the second on a five yard pass from QB Todd Reesing.
At the half Kansas had 250 yards in total offense and their defense had shut down the Miners QB Trevor Vittatoe, recording five first half sacks and one interception. In the third quarter Kansas had a 76 yard drive ended on an interception by Braxton Amy on the UTEP 10.
Later in the period the Jayhawks made it 27-0 on a third yard scoring run from Sharp after a 49 yard punt return from Daymond Patterson to the UTEP 24. It went to 34-0 when Toben Opurum crashed in from the one to cap a 13 play 80 yard drive.
UTEP’s only score of the game came on a Vittatoe to Donovan Kemp 75 yard pass play with 12:39 to go in the game. On the night the Jayhawks had 570 yards in total offense,320 through the air. Reesing was 25 of 41 for 259 and a TD. Sharp had his second straight one hundred yard game with 104 yards on 16 carries. The true freshman Opurum had 87 yards on 17 totes.
But the real star on this night was the defense, which held the Miners to 208 yards in total offense and just seven first downs. Kansas goes to 2-0 on the season and heads back home to host Duke in an 11 o’clock kickoff next Saturday in Lawrence.
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