For the second straight week, Kansas played a statement game, only this one didn’t require the athletic director’s letterhead.
By winning at Central Michigan and putting a final number(46) on its NCAA-record losing streak for road games, the Jayhawks announced, for at least one week, this wasn’t business as usual.
When that appeared to be the case in their previous game, an overtime loss to FCS school Nicholls State, which lost Saturday at Tulane by 25, KU athletic director Jeff Long got enough queries from reporters about the program’s progress and coach David Beaty’s status that he issued a response calling for support of the team.