LAWRENCE -- A number of streaks -- or, perhaps more aptly put, droughts -- mercifully ended Saturday for the Kansas football team.
First, the Jayhawks eclipsed 50-plus points for the first time in a game since Nov. 6, 2010. In doing so, KU quarterbacks threw six touchdown passes since Todd Reesing posted that number himself on Nov. 3, 2007 against Nebraska.
And finally, when the final whistle sounded at Memorial Stadium, the most dubious streak of them all -- 665 days without a victory -- too fell, in emphatic fashion.
The Jayhawks earned the first victory of the David Beaty era in the head coach’s second season in Lawrence with a 55-6 thumping of FCS opponent Rhode Island.