As the Kansas football team looks ahead to Saturday Night’s road contest against UTEP, the Jayhawks can savor a solid 49-3 opening weekend victory over Northern Colorado.
Coach Mark Mangino said he was pleased with how the Kansas offense reacted to Northern Colorado’s defensive philosophy of dropping back eight in the secondary and not wanting to get beat deep. The Jayhawks produced the best rushing performance in the conference, piling up 328 yards on the ground, including 123 from Jake Sharp and 79 from QB Todd Reesing. That was a great sign for an offensive line that features three first year starters.
The offense posted 49 points without the services of Dezmon Briscoe at wide receiver who sat out the game as part of a spring suspension, but Kerry Meier was his typical self with five catches for 115 yards. Kansas also unveiled a new offensive look by putting Reesing in the Pistol. Offensive coordinator Ed Warriner called it a good change up.
Mangino said he was pleased overall with the defense and pointed to Chris Harris, Jake Laptad and Darryl Stuckey for having solid games. The new linebacking corps played hard but needs to quit overunning the ball and tackle better, something he said the defense needs to do better as a whole.
The Jayhwks will play a UTEP team that lost to Buffalo at home in their opener 23-17. It’s the first meeting ever between the schools. The Miners thought they’d won their game at the end but had a TD called back on a holding call and then had a potential game winning pass broken up in the end zone as time expired. Kansas has won 17 of its last 19 games against non conference foes but first road games of the year are always scary for any coach.
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