Sports media is starting to acknowledge that there is a very real chance that the Jayhawks could be this year’s “screw up the BCS system and prove yet again why college football needs a playoff system” team. Yesterday, John Seibel and Orestes Destrade included both Oklahoma-Texas Tech and KU-Iowa State in their Five Reasons to Watch College Football This Weekend segment on SportsNation Radio. Now, USA Today weighs in:
All that remains is for LSU and Oregon to win their final three games. Or not.There is the little matter of Kansas. The little Jayhawks that could. Unknown at the start of the season and still an outsider.
Kind of like the unwanted relative that you have to invite to your wedding. And they could spoil the party.
They’re certainly not going away. Not with an unbeaten mark and Missouri and probably Oklahoma left the schedule. That’s two top-10 opponents to pad their credentials with poll voters and the computers.
Missouri and Oklahoma are huge obstacles for this Jayhawks team to overcome. KU has played only one game against a team ranked in the Top 25 at the time, a 30-24 win over then-24 Kansas State. Missouri and Oklahoma have played each other, with OU coming out on top 41-31. Overall, Missouri’s played the toughest schedule (#35, according to CBS), with KU and OU roughly equivalent (73 and 68, respectively). If KU can win out (and I still don’t think they will), they have to get the nod over Oregon - undefeated and with two wins over Top 5 teams in successive weeks is a no-brainer, even if they aren’t a traditional football school.
