LAWRENCE
In the days after Kansas’ season-opening loss to South Dakota State, first-year offensive coordinator Rob Likens huddled with quarterback Montell Cozart to review the offense’s first performance of the season. For Likens, the game film offered a mix of optimism and disappointment. Among the good: Cozart threw for 291 yards and rushed for another 94 while guiding a unit that rolled up 576 total yards. Among the bad: The Jayhawks reeled off 90 plays, the seventh-most in the country this past week, but Likens believed it could have been 100.
One moment, though, stuck out: Early in the second quarter, with Kansas trailing big, Cozart scrambled to his right and fumbled the football while absorbing a shot to the head.