The Daily Mauling 11.4.26 – Yahoo Sports

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Kickoff for Saturday’s game agaisnt UCF has been set:

The Kansas Jayhawks will take on the UCF Knights on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 2:45 p.m. CT, the Big 12 Conference announced on Saturday. The game will air on ESPN2.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the Jayhawks are favored over UCF for the first time in a Big 12 matchup this season:

As bizarre as it sounds, the Jayhawks had not been listed as a favorite in any of the five Big 12 games they’ve played in 2026. The closest they came was as a 1.5-point underdog versus Baylor, which currently stands as their only league victory.

So we have a time for the game. The Jayhawks are favored. But do we have a quarterback? Well, not yet:

For the Jayhawks to realistically stay in the race for bowl eligibility this Saturday against UCF, they very much need Marshall to return under center. However, it remains far from a sure thing that the redshirt sophomore makes his way back to the field over the weekend. Head coach Lance Leipold remained noncommittal on his quarterback choice during his weekly press conference today.

Lets head to the Daily Kansan as they have quite a bit of fun content up about the mens and womens basketball teams. First up, a roundtable discussing the mens team:

What are your thoughts on Bill Self as he enters his 24th season as the Jayhawks’ head coach? Could this be his last dance?

Hooke: Self wouldn’t come back if he didn’t believe he still has it as an elite coach, but this new era of the sport has been vicious to the old guard of college basketball head coaches not named Kelvin Sampson or Rick Pitino (and Tom Izzo, at least for the regular season). The transfer portal has hammered his signature trait of retention and development, and offensive innovation has left him behind. Since the pandemic, Kansas has only had one year with a top-30 offense on Bart Torvik after having one in every year of Self’s tenure beforehand. I called my shot on this in my first article of the year, and I’ll stick to it. This will be…

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